WM 2018 in Russland: Vorrundenaus Deutschland

[matrixmann]

DFB-Elf verliert im letzten Gruppenspiel gegen Südkorea mit 2:0, nachdem sie schon zuvor nur mit Bayern-Dusel das Spiel gegen Schweden mit 2:1 durch ein Tor in der 95. Minute gewinnen konnten, die erste Gruppenpartie gegen Mexico haben sie sogar mit 1:0 verloren.
Als Gruppenletzter dürfen sie nun ihren Hut nehmen.

Schadenfreude anyone?

Comments

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

The curse of champions...
It has been a strange game with Koreans, of course the trainer will get all the kicks.

[matrixmann]

For my understanding of things, it's some fucking time to put the topic "sports medicine" on the table, if you know what I mean.
Performance spikes that fall to ashes during the upcoming time - you know, that screams for something else being in the soup too.
And this even applies if you have a team like the German one where half of the established soccer players left after the last World Cup - new people need to be sharpened and build up to reach the same abilities like the players before. But physical building up needs time to result in a fruitful harvest - sports medicine involving substances would need this too. You know, you want to build up successful players, not kill them quickly, right?
So you have to work with them for a while, for a couple of years persistently... Which is a little too much time needed for the in-between time of the international tournaments to go smoothly from one win to another.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Yes, maybe you are right about a busyness and tiredness of players of most strong teams of Europe, plus sport medicine is growing up in countries like Korea, it is very prestigious to participate not to say to win the Soccer World Cup... the Soccer, yeah, so the world things are in big change, I do believe, not like the deals of old and stable Europe.

[matrixmann]

During Cold War times, both sides practiced sports medicine with the aid of substances - one pushed the guilt over to the other fraction for needing to start with that; however, who had started it for real can't be really traced down anymore these days.
What there is to say about it in general but is: It was always there since after WWII, piece by piece cases long in the past come out during the modern days, so you can think for yourself how the present may look like if regarding it through that pair of glasses.
Today it's only less the slave to the nations which want to emphasize the superiority over other nations through that, today it's more the slave to pure commercialism.
If the sports department is attractive enough in potential bargain, you can bet your ass on that it's gonna be contaminated with sports medicine that includes doping.
Why? 'Cause there is so much to win, so much money to earn for those who lend and rent the marketing rights...
In that point, partly you'll need the business from the Western areas of the world, but partly you won't that much. Within their own sphere, they are a money machine, but compared to others, meanwhile, due to being so much subject only for money-making, they may suck a lot because those have their own "quality requirements" in their spheres to make money.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

" Within their own sphere, they are a money machine"

Yes and don't forget the world wide tote, the bets all over - it is a tremendious business itself and here we have some strange moments with zero probability on fields.

[matrixmann]

This also adds to the whole thing.
There is a gigantic pressure to deliver certain outcomes...
So, don't tell me there's no will to push for that result with whatever means possible.