Germany: World Cup 2014 Winners!
I don't typically discuss sports here or get into anything potentially heated like breastfeeding (!), sleep training, religion or politics but c'mon, let's talk about that World Cup 2014 finale last night? Was that great or was that great? Before the game began I predicted on Instagram that it would be a close match and that Argentina would play strong. And during the game on Twitter I openly confessed that though I'm a fan of the German team, whoever ended up winning the point last night deserved the world cup because that was a battle to the finish. Both teams were strong but you have to give credit to Germany because at one point they only had 10 players on the field, one of their star players, Sami Khedira, couldn't even play because he injured himself 15 minutes before the game in warm-ups, and Argentina had a red card that wasn't even held against them (that was such an unfair call)... Yet they still won (read more here for a play by play recap).
And how brilliant was coach Joachim Löw in the end to pull out their big star Miroslav Klose (who received a standing ovation as he left the field) and replace with glorious #19, Mario Goetze, who scored the goal that won them the World Cup? And to top that off, the strategy (in my opinion) to pull out Mesut Özil and replace with Per Mertesacker in the final minute by Löw to eat up time on the clock was equally brilliant. You have to give Germany a huge high five for winning the World Cup, Manuel Neuer was aces and that was the best played game between two strong teams that I've ever seen in all of my years of watching sports teams battle it out for the World Series, NFL, etc. I'm really proud to wake up in Germany today and the spirits here are so high, I thought the fireworks and car horns were going to go one for hours last night. So exhilarating. I jumped with Aidan in my arms and we all cheered and then Aidan got fed and very milk drunk and passed out until 8am this morning. Babies. His first world cup! Hurrah!
Did you watch the game? What did you think?
(images: hugo boss/GQ magazine)