The World Cup Diaries
Germany 1 : 0 Argentina
What a game, a worthy final to an amazing tournament! Exciting, beautiful, heated game between two truly great teams. And in the end, Germany won!
The German machine played as it always plays - strictly, organised, planning ahead, punctual and rational. An organised team of a number of extremely talented professionals, that know each other, their strengths and weaknesses.
And then there is Argentina, a team known as Messi and the other 10 players. They played in the typical South American style - with plenty of pointless passes, a lot of showing off. They also did their best to lead Messi to the wining goal, alas unsuccessfully so.
Before I go further, may I just say - What a goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is! Amazing! A true successor of Oliver Kahn's style and immortal glory. Even Kahn himself acknowledges that, so this should mean something, right?
The game itself was intense and nerve-breaking. Not a lot of good goal positions, neither in the first part nor in the second. The goalkeepers, both German and Argentinian, did their very best to keep their teams in the game and with chances to win. It was Mario Gotze in the 23 minute of the extra time who scored the winning goal. A beautiful German styled goal. And this was it. Messi, the famous, glorious Messi, know for his amazing skills to score impossible goals, missed a few very good ones. He seemed a bit scared of his own shadow, he didn't look like himself last night. And his self-consciousnesses took its tool - who knows if he'll ever have the chance to play at a World Cup final ever again.
Germany won. This is it. They deserved it, they went for the trophy and they took it. They fought fair and share and never gave up. And this is what is worth to win.
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