>>>>>I have lots of reasons to want to see Argentina win, but on behalf of all the first cousins of my late wife in Bavaria, I'm hoping that Germany takes it.
>>>>>We spent many happy evenings with her cousins in biergartens throughout Bavaria. I can only imagine what those biergartens will look like tonight.
>>>>>Go Deutschland!
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>>>>Congratulations to Germany!
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>>>I was with Argentina but both of Germany and Argentina deserved to cup and they took... This was Messi's last change. Messi and Higuain was in a bad day. If they were good I'm sure Argentina would be won the match at least 3-0...
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>>Don't make me cry, I am trying to forget! :)
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>>I always wanted to visit Russia, so if I start saving money today, I might go there for the next World Cup, my daughter will be in the University by then, so...
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>Argentina came SO close to winning it, closer than most people expected. They can hold their heads high. That said, I have to agree with what Alexi Lalas said in the studio after the match -- Argentina's several muffed great chances will eat at them for a long time.

Haha, Very funny, I am sure you did not do it on purpose, but that "They can hold their head high" is funny given the controversy with the German's celebrations (controversy I do not share, I do not think it was wrong)

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>I was surprised that Messi was given the Golden Boot award as the tournament's most valuable player. Generally it is given to a player on the winning team, and he didn't score a goal in the knockout rounds (although he had many great chances despite Germany never taking their eyes off him).

I agree and I posted this in the "Maradona" thread, but I read an interesting take on a Canadian? sports website where they defend the decision and called me (well, all people that think Messi did not deserve it) hypocrites or something like that :)

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>Another thing that surprised me was reading that Brazilian fans were disappointed, to say the least, in their team's performance, it would have been even worse if Argentina had won. I didn't realize the rivalry was that intense.

Well Mike, they received 10 goals in the final two matches, at home, we were disappointed in 2006 after losing by penalties with the host Germany (darn, now you made me remember, 3 WC in a row eliminated by them...) and the coach resigned (and I really liked him, in this WC he was the coach of Colombia), and beyond disappointed in 2010 after losing 4-0. Brazil lost 7-1! At Home!!! of course they were disappointed. And if Argentina had won in the Maracana!!! There is a reason why they started using the Brazukken Flag (A German flag with the "Ordem e Progresso" inner romboid) to cheer against Argentina, and I do not blame them, we probably would have done the same!