Actually I wanted to write this blog entry yesterday morning but because it was too hot! Today, unfortunately, it is even hotter than yesterday, but I - as the German national team - feel the need to bring this World Cup blog on a conciliatory end to be written precisely.
already clear: The game for third place is a foreign body in the World Cup game plan. At the European Championships this is not a placement game since 1984 more, and no one missing. In other sports such games have quite some significance, as in handball, because you can save possibly the third or fifth in the direct qualification for the next tournament or the Olympic Games. When football's world and European championships but this was never the case, it was from the outset, only about who gets the bronze medals, and who with a damp handshake of place goes.
Interestingly, Germany in 1934 (was at the premiere in 1930 is no match for third place), the first world championship bronze medalist, and four third places (1934, 1970, 2006, 2010), Germany with a total of five acquisitions, the successful Nation in the small final. Only in 1958 Germany was in the small final against France with 3-6 under, otherwise, the men with the eagle in the unpopular position game always victorious. So there really is some relationship between Germany and this strange game that belongs to the World Cup, but somehow, because it finds it were held outside of the competition. Both participants are eliminated from the race for the Cup, but nevertheless ran again. A bit reminiscent of the whole Apollo 13: The big goal has moved a long way off, but before they can come home, one must again turn a lap of honor around the moon. And after you sell the whole, the astonished audience as a success. Surprisingly, this game
is actually at least since 1982, a guarantor of entertaining games. Previously there were a number of tired 1-0-kicks, which sets the players involved in each case took the lead almost all actions. Sometimes, the third-place play even better than the actual finals, such as 1994 (a 4-0 by Sweden against Bulgaria, while the Italians and the Brazilians in the final neutralized and penalties had to decide) and 2006 (when the German Ersatzelf the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Figo defeated with 3-1, while Italians and French in the finals only a 1-1 brought about and also the penalties decided). For the paradox of the game for third place: it is actually nothing more, so the participating teams often place from the tactical constraints. The defense is not as much focus, so fall in the small final often more goals than in the actual final.
The most beautiful "game 63" of the story provided, however, 2002, Turkey and South Korea. Turkey won 3-2, but are still remembered the pictures after the game, when both teams fraternizing with each other and thanked arm in arm on the grass with their fans (as in the following video, 6:48).
has in this honorable ancestry is classified and yesterday the game between Germany and Uruguay. Of course it was mainly the Germans to remember the disappointment with the final missed very much. But: They retreated from the glossy affair, winning 3-2. And who was the winner? The football. could
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