It was good while it lasted

The Germans call this stadium in Dortmund "the living room". This is a stadium where they have never lost before...So when they were taking on Italy here, there was a lot of optimism in the German camp.

You cannot win a match/cup just with luck as Brazil and England found out a little late in the tournament. You need a coach who is very positive and they had Klinsmann, their prolific striker of 90s. I think this whole turnaround for this team is because of this man here. How can you keep your golden shoe winner of last world cup in the sideline. He rubbed on the attacking instincts to the team. It was a pleasure to watch him applaud every attacking move of the Germans and he threw emotions in plenty as well.


Well a coach cant win matches. Hiddink will confirm on this. You also need a team which believes in itself. Ballack provided the captaincy and the pivot for all attacks from the right through Schneider and through Lahm from the left and through Sweinsteiger from everywhere. ANd when Swein was tired you had Borowski comein in and settinp up a nice goal for Klose against the Argentinians. This is a team which will be a favourite to win the next Euro.


So all of these drove this nation crazy. There you see two very important players, Lehmann and Ballack.

And I feel sorry for Klinsmann who would have been the most upset. He came without any background in coaching a team and did a wonderful job at that. Good job done!