Full time: Germany 0 : 1 Spain ( Read more... )

One down with less than twenty minutes to go. This is painful.

I am devastated.

I'm up at an absurd hour and my heart is racing like mad. I don't think this is healthy ( Read more... )

To watch or not to watch?

Given how besotted I am with Germany I am ashamed to admit how little faith I have in the team on their upcoming match.

I'll decide later.

GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!

I've started following the German National Team on Twitter, which is really kind of silly since all their tweets are in German, and I know no German. I've been putting all their tweets through the Babel Fish translator - so far so good. Despite its reputation for spitting out weird and grammatically-incorrect translations, I guess the 140-character ( Read more... )

Haven't managed to find any good english forums on Miroslav Klose, but his forum on baidu is pretty active (and passionate!). It seems like the trick on those forums is to search for a specific team or player if one wants to share in the love. The forum for 'World Cup' as a general topic is filled with crazy haters and rampant racism. NOT PLEASANT ( Read more... )

Why can't I be infatuated with an English-speaking football player? It'd be so much easier when searching for fan pages and watching interviews or press conferences. Eight years ago it was Korean, this time it's German, and I can't understand a single thing they're saying. Argh ( Read more... )

Germany won by four goals to nil over Argentina. Australia may take comfort in that outcome.

That was the most AWESOME game ever!

Kept hoping that Klose would get a goal this game (to up his World Cup tally closer to the all-time record) and he managed to strike twice! The first one was almost too easy, and the second was just the icing on that ( Read more... )

Germany vs. Argentina ( Read more... )

The Japan/Paraguay game has moved into penalties - the first shoot-out of the tournament.

Truth be told, this game was rather dreary. Penalties are supposed to be dramatic, but somehow they feel incredibly anti-climactic

I can barely stand to watch this, everyone is so tense, and everything is happening so slowly. It's a real stop-start sort of ( Read more... )