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It came, it went & Germany are the champions
Tafadzwa Dombodzvuku
The 20th edition of the FIFA
world cup came and went with
the Germans being crowned as
the champions after beating
played at the Rio de Maracana stadium
on the 13th of last month.
Germany wrote their own piece of
European team to win the World Cup in
South America.
match a wounded lion after they had
missed shots at winning the World Cup in
2002, 2006 as host and in 2010 they were
nothing but their eyes on the thirty eight
centimetres tall and 18 gold carat coveted
trophy.
The Joachim Loew coached side, last
won the competition 24 years ago when
they were known as West Germany, they
defeated the same team 1 nil at the 1990
World Cup in Italy.
This year marked eight years of Loew
in charge of the national team, it was his
second time trying to win the World Cup
with Germany.
The Deutsch as they are commonly
known back home started off the
tournament against Portugal who where
boasting of having the reigning world
footballer of the year Christiano Ronaldo.
The Germany machine was well oiled in
their European counter parts defeating
them 4 nil.
In their second match the World Cup
winners met up with the Africans in form
of Ghana whom they fought to secure
a 2 all draw before they took on team
USA mentored by their own son Jurgen
Klinsman and the match was a close call
The result meant Germany would
progress as the group winners and they
faced the runners up of group H, the
Desert Foxes of Algeria whom they
they took on Les Blues in the quarter
an imperious defender Mats Hummels
Bookmakers feared the Ides of March
would come to haunt the Germans again
host. Germany had developed a knack
around they had to make sure they won
at all costs. In 2006 and 2010 Germany
lost to Italy and Spain respectively in the
It was a high mountain to climb for the
Europeans who were facing a determined
Brazil in their own backyard and riding
high on pure emotions they sent a
stubborn Colombia out of the World Cup
were very high for both teams; they all
wanted to win the cup. Brazil was in
agony on losing their talismanic players,
Neymar because of a back injury and
suspension.
Brazil who suffered a record breaking
Germany wrung Brazil to bits as they
cheering supporters.
Brazil’s weaknesses were exposed by
the well oiled German machine and like
their former chancellor Adolf Hitler, the
Europeans were ruthless in their way of
half.
There was a public outcry in Sao Paulo
Page 92 The Parade - Zimbabwe’s Most Read Lifestyle Magazine
August 2014