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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Fifa World Cup 2014 Finals Argentina vs. Germany

This is the world cup finals between Argentina and Germany. If you think of it it's like the World Cup Finals Series Game 3 since in their two World Cup Final confrontations (1986 &1990) Germany and Argentina had each won one. The competition was so intense 100,000 Argentinians and 25,000 Germans flew to Rio De Janeiro to watch the game. The beach near Maracana was filled with people. They had put a giant screen there. You couldn't move half a foot without bumping into somebody. This game was said to be very uneven as Germany had crushed Brazil 7-1 and Argentina had beat Holland 4-2 by a close game of penalties. In minute 21 Thomas Muller heads the ball really wildly to Gonzalo Higuain who shoots the ball with the wrong side of his foot and misses. But he "returned the favor" in minute 30 when he receives a cross from Lionel Messi and shoots it over Manuel Neuer scoring a goal. I have to admit even when I was watching the game I did fall for the trap but Higuain was an inch away from the goalie but wen I saw the replay I knew he was offside. So when the referee called offside I wasn't surprised. Right before the end of the first half, Muller received a corner kick pass and hits the post which bumps off Ozil and is so close from being a goal before Romero gets it. Joachim Loew starts shouting but Goal Line Technology (the new system used by Fifa to debate goals that look on the line. They way they do it is simply by turning the picture downwards 270 degrees and see if the ball crossed the line.) called it a miss. But there was no need to argue since it was offside anyway. In minute 55 the referee made a horrible mistake. Marcos Rojo made a long pass to Higuain but Manuel Neuer jumped in front of him and caught the ball. The referee called a foul on Higuain because he hit the goalie's chest with his shoulder. I thought that was really unfair. Higuain didn't push the goalie, the goalie jumped over him and kicked him down to the ground. I thought that should be a yellow card for Neuer and a penalty for Higuain but the referee called horribly. He called a foul for Germany and Higuain got injured and had to be taken out for Rodrigo Palacio. So you Argentina fans can thank Fifa for that. The game ended like that and went to overtime. The Argentinians were getting a little tired so Sabella had to take out Ezequiel Lavezzi and Enzo Perez. In minute 113 the winning goal from Mario Gotze came. Andre Schurrle made a high through ball to Gotze and he shoots the ball from the side. I think Romero made a mistake when he dived to the left because the only way the ball could have gone in through the left was if Gotze crossed but there was nobody open in the area. Gotze shot to the right, and the ball crossed the net. The game ended like that. As a retirement gift, Spanish defender Carles Puyol was given the gift of handing the Cup to Germany. This was Phillip Lahm's last trophy for Germany as he retires from international football. And Lahm raises the cup.

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