I can’t believe that Germany scored five goals on Brazil in the first half. That’s just cruel. The whole country of Brazil is stunned and in agony.
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More fodder for the European right.
Watch.
AG
No time to do a thorough search, but here’s the deal as far as I am concerned:
Europe is headed straight to the right. The Ukraine fiasco is only part of the evidence. Watch.
AG
The term “Nazi” used in tweets spiked when Germany scored against the USA, so I suspect it was mainly a term of abuse directed at Germans by USA fans. Either way I wouldn’t take this stuff seriously or indicative of wider trends. Some countries in Europe may be trending rightwards, but the world cup has nothing to do with it.
Frank…
That’s like saying racial conditions in the U.S. and the eventually successful struggle of minority players to gain entrance to Major League baseball were unconnected. The virulent strain of racism evinced by so many European football fans exists, and it is presently being more and more plainly expressed. Anti-Muslim sentiments are fanning that hatred, and amongst the stupider members of athletic fandom it is being expressed as purely “racial” hate. The darker the skin the more hatred, no matter whether the object of that hatred is Muslim or a born-again Holy Roller. Fear and hatred of “the other” is always present among the more stupid segments of every society, and it is more freely expressed…right on up to pogroms, “racial cleansings” and the various other holocausts of history…when politico-economic trouble is present.
So it goes.
Will Europe continue on its rightward course?
Time will tell.
I hope not, but if it does, so be it.
In this perfect universe, everything contributes to evolution.
Everything.
Bet on it.
AG
You’re changing the subject. You started off by saying Germany’s victory in the World Cup Semi was more fodder for the European Right. I called b/s. The fact is the German team is more multi-racial than ever before, and Germany’s victory over Brazil has no particular political significance: It will be celebrated by left and right alike and all who love good football because Germany played good football against a poor Brazilian team which had relied on brutality and biased refereeing to get as far as it did. Not everything i reducible to politics and the fact that there are racist football fans in Europe is a separate issue.
I think that the racist European right will get around to using this victory. You don’t. So it goes.
AG
Absolutely shocking. I bet even the Germans feel a little embarrassed for running up that kind of margin. Hard to imagine this will not go down as the worst defeat in Brazilian soccer history, and one of the worst ever World Cup losses.
It could easily be 8-0. Germany isn’t even trying and still scored another.
Well, Brazil stopped trying way earlier than that.
Yeah, the whole game had a middle school feel to it from the Brazil side.
An unchallenged corner quick makes it to the foot that kicks it in.
Flat passes on the grass right in front of the goal get kicked in without ever needing to get in the air.
Truly a wretched pathetic performance.
After the disastrous game, one Brazilian supporter pleaded with Oranje to keep Argentina from the finals. To see Argentina play the World Cup final would be too much to bear. In the stadium there were 62,500 football fans, fortunately not the 200,000 fans in 1950 who were stunned by Brazil’s 1-2 loss to Uruguay. Even in defeat, there is always a bright side.
○ BBC Sport: Uruguay shock Brazil at the 1950 World Cup
PS Why did India refuse to play in the World Cup of 1950?
It’s great to see a very poor, cynical, dirty,Brazilian team humiliated. Maybe now they will go back to playing skillful football again. As for Germany, they were magnificent and played Brazil off the park. It looks like we may yet have a worthy winner of the world cup after all.
Will be curious to see how the Netherlands-Argentina match goes.
Seemed like a replay of France-Germany.
Not the quarterfinal game, 1940.
There’s something heartening about the noise coming out of Israel with missle strikes but the govt can’t seem to get the attention of the people with sirens going off because everyone is watching the World Cup.
I’ve got friends in Israel on vacation. They’re Muslim converts, there for Ramadan. They were at al Aqsa today when the sirens went off.
Germany beat their ass like they stole something.
Another noteworthy thing about the German squad is they have the multitalented Ken Burns coaching them. I would have thought an Otto Preminger type would have been more appropriate to direct such a disciplined, machine-like team.
And I’m already uneasy contemplating an all-Northern European/predominantly Caucasian final taking place in multiracial samba country …
I have never seen a game like that.
Complete mental breakdown when reality of German goals struck players, they froze up. Pressure build-up was way too high for a team that was clearly too weak. I was surprised Brazil beat Chile and Columbia. Team Brazil tried to compensate the absence of striker Neymar and veteran defender/captain Thiago Silva with more emotion than tactics. The stats showed a single yellow card and 11 fouls for the host nation!
At World Cup level, it’s so improbable to score four goals inside six minutes. As I recently posted, at this stage of the tournament teams should avoid losing. Brazil was too anxious and pushed forward leaving its defense quite vulnerable. See the scores and stats of previous matches. When Germany scored the second goal, I turned off the set. The performance of the match was not at the expected World Cup level.
This was Brazil’s biggest loss in one hundred years, previously they lost 6-0 to Uruguay in 1920 South American Championship.
I definitely thought Colombia was going to beat Brazil. I was surprised Chile held them to 0-0.
Sorry for the home folks, but…there is no other way to say it…their team quit. Now I don’t know who to root for today. I was going to root for the Netherlands, but now I think I’ll have to go with the other home team.
In Brazil, you won’t be appreciated for that due to intense rivalry …
Oranje all the way … vengeance for 1978 and in the final for 1974!
Fortunately, for me I don’t live in Brazil. ;))! But I appreciate your information and views as always; I’m really a baseball fan anyway. Go Tigers!