FIFA World Cup Brasil 2014

[Ford Fairlane]

Germany score!

Mario Götze

Germany 1 Argentina 0 113 mins

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Germany wins the 2014 World Cup 1-0 after extra time.

The 24 year rule holds. 4th World Cup 24 years after the 3rd.

 

[Dylan8]

What could have been, Higuain

 

[Greasyrhys]

Congratulations Germany, definitely well deserved.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Mario Götze joins the likes of Andres Iniesta, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Andreas Brehme and Jose Burruchaga as scorers of decisive goals in World Cup finals.

The 22-year-old was the second youngest German player of all time. He will never be forgotten now...

BBC Sport

 

[Dylan8]

"Happy" being played as the camera pans to the Argentinians

 

[Dylan8]

Not only that, they have to stand there and suffer through Pitbull's "Timber"

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The post-match is like an episode of Europe's top model.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Christus der Erlöser

 

[Dentshop]

The winners get the ladies. The losers stand alone.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Helmut Rahn. Gerd Muller. Andy Brehme. And now Mario Götze. What an exclusive club he's joined: players who have scored a World Cup winning goal for Germany!

Guardian sport

 

[Dentshop]

FIFA gets the presentations right.

No speeches. AFL take note.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Not according to The Guardian.

And eventually, after a wait of 78 hours, it's time to let Germany, the 2014 World Cup winners, take to the podium. Handshakes and hugs all round, from that clown Blatter and the German chancellor Angela Merkel. Medals are handed out. Some incredibly bad music booms from the PA. Thankfully it's turned down, just before Phillipp Lahm is handed the trophy. He snatches it off some other Fifa waste of space, and goes back to meet the rest of his team before rising the World Cup into the Rio air! At which point the music is turned on again, and fireworks go off, but no amount of Fifa mishandling is going to ruin the German party!

Argentina finally, after all that ludicrous nonsense, go up to receive their runners-up medals. Messi makes his most determined run of the knockout stages, zipping through a German guard of honour to lead his team to the prizes they never wanted. Messi looks in a murderous mood. Fifa really did riff on Argentina's pain there, but particularly Messi's. He's just lost a World Cup final! Did they have to put him through all that? Did they expect him to smile for the photos?Sepp Blatter takes an age to turn up.

This is OK for Germany, but pity poor Argentina, who just want to scuttle off, and are forced to wait on the pitch for an absurd length of time. Blatter is met with a stadium full of boos. Good, the corpulent oaf. And then, well, this is effing ridiculous! Individual awards are presented, for best goalkeeper and best player, to Manuel Neuer and an understandably pissed-off Lionel Messi. This is a farce. Fifa are a shower of clowns. Do they not realise there's a World Cup to lift here?

 

[Dentshop]

True, the bit with Pitbull and keeping the Argies out there was nonsense. And the presentation of the individual awards. Dumb.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[1954]

My good mate Werner of the schnitzel will be celebrating like crazy, his one day off work could become all week.

Luckily he doesn't have a boss to answer to, except for the 4 members of the petticoat government at home - I think it's still four.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Hahndorf in the hills would've been thriving, probably still is...

 

[Smacka1]

2 issues that come to mind today ...

1. Les Murray is a legend, an absolute icon.

2. Argentinian fans, invading Rio, taunting the locals by singing Maradona is greater than Pele? Where is the army? Different cultures but that would never happen here in Australia. Bad sportsmanship, or more effectively, poor taste, just has no meaning whatsoever in some countries!

Cringeworthy.

Les Murray is a legend!

Maradona is greater than Pele! Argentinians have bad sportsmanship - what's new?

 

[Smacka1]

Congratulations Germany, definitely well deserved.

Most definitely!

 

[Smacka1]

Mario Götze joins the likes of Andres Iniesta, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Andreas Brehme and Jose Burruchaga as scorers of decisive goals in World Cup finals.

The 22-year-old was the second youngest German player of all time. He will never be forgotten now...

BBC Sport

Check out Mario's girlfriend! He's a BIG winner on and off the field!


Who on Earth is Mario Goetze, Germany’s World Cup final hero against Argentina
CAMERON TOMARCHIO news.com.au

http://www.news.com.au/sport/footba...gainst-argentina/story-fnkjl6g2-1226988191611

 

[Smacka1]

My good mate Werner of the schnitzel will be celebrating like crazy, his one day off work could become all week.

Luckily he doesn't have a boss to answer to, except for the 4 members of the petticoat government at home - I think it's still four.

Congratulations Werner! Well deserved and I have great respect for German football right now at both their domestic level and their national team!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The touch of the players playing this morning shows just how far away Oz is from every seriously challenging for the WC. There was some fantastic control and touch under extreme pressure. Very few times did the players panic. There was a decent amount of the beautiful game happening with the ball today.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ferenda De Paula was the star of SBS's coverage for me. Her story on the great Brazilian player Garrincha on the weekend was the highlight of her stories, as was Les Murray's reaction and explanation of why he loved Garrincha so much. Brazil never lost a game when both Garrincha and Pele played in the side.

The highlights package of Les's career at SBS and heading up every one of SBS's World Cup coverage since the 1986 coverage was also great highlight right at the end of last night's World Cup Show. It was a beautiful thing that the crew at SBS presented him with one of Garrincha's signed shirts from his club team Botafogo.

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Still waiting for a post from our TPFP mate werner, there must have been some celebrations going on in his household.

Well deserved winners in my book.

It was a bit of a strange world cup from my point of view. I normally take the month off work and see as much as I can but, as I had another holiday commitment, hardly saw a game live - in total it was 7 including the final.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

One of the best World Cups. Fast attacking football, the final was a joy to watch. The Brazilian passion for the game - social issues notwithstanding - added great atmosphere to the whole event.

I already miss the early morning recaps.