Someone send me this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RLZUKqpXYzU
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Löw did summarise it quiet well "we knew, their defense is often unorganized when they move back - they have done so in other games - and we knew that we should build up on that."
On the possible 8:0,
even though Özil did not make that goal, for me
he looked better (or at least not disturbing and faulty) than in the rest of the match (even doing an assist in favour of doing it himself), that you don't notice someone in the rest of the match might not be bad, he might just have done some stabilising work off the cameras.
(I also heard the pundits somewhere say, that he has become better in the France game).
On tweeties question, why there is a medial "fatwa" on Özil.
I don't think it is because he is a Turk. Especially when you look how many journalists with turkish background work for the ARD (and daughter channel Tagesschau24 and Phoenix) and even are newspresenters. (I don't watch the private news channels, so I don't know). Well, ok, one could think this is an alibi or misunderstood political correctness.
I could imagine though, that the "BILD" gossip paper trys to play with the feelings of dumb people that buy this paper.
For conservative or pseudo-intellectual newspapers like "Die Zeit" or "Die Welt", it might just be that these people that are not interested in football the rest of the year, want to talk about something that they feel is a hot topic now and it is more a habit than an actual effort to investigate something.
You know these papers always advertise a colourful nation and like to talk about projects with immigrants or about immigrants that made it in society and on the other side they like to bitch about the schools in Berlin-Neu-Köln or formerly Kreuzberg, that are 100% turkish or arabic/moslem/balkan and are reported to have a high crime rate and such stuff. So Özil might be an excuse for the media to be allowed to bitch about Turks (or it speaks out an deeply inherited, but buried subjective discomfort), but being politically correct at the same time, because you can say it is actually football they are talking about or a german nationalteam player and not a Turk.
But then again, though I have tried to find indicators/evidence, I think it is not, because he is a Turk. Remember Scheinsteiger or Höwedes (and now Mertesacker a bit) have been the target once, too.
Also, on ZDf or ARD, I also heard them recite statistics in favour of Özil and then asking "why do we notice him so less?" (since you say, they only take statistics that go against him).
2010, Özil was topic in the press, because he (and the "other immigrants", without Klose) didn't sing the anthem.
You can ask, why they picked him, since the others don't do it as well. Maybe, because he just appears the most noticeable. He somehow appears like a weed smoking Turkish schoolboy everytime (still at this age) and the lazy way he talks doesn't help either, I think.
Look at Boateng, he appears so German, or better say, fully Berlin-boy-like, that you are not even aware about the Ghana story, if they don't remind you everytime, when they try to hype the "battle of the brothers" (-> Kevin Prince Boateng).
Klose got booed 2012 in Poland, because he sings the anthem and then excused, that he just lives so long here, that he considers himself and feels german. To make piece with the polish press he said, he goes fishing in Poland sometimes. Podolski is loved on both sides, because he is the easy uneducated boy, that doesn't forget to always mention that he loves his grandma and Poland and often visits them and he makes fun (often unwilingly of himself).
The press could also have picked Khedira, but he is just too good and also impressed people with his fast recovery. Press loves that, because you can make a story about it and people already love him.
So: is it because Özil is türkish? Maybe in some parts of the press, but I would not think, that it is the only reason. I guess it is also not only the playing mistakes, but the way he acts. Even Kroos, he is sometimes a quiet person, appears strong inside.
If we can believe the media and what statements they pick, with the anthem topic in 2010 there were Türkish journalists, born or at least gone to school here, who said something like, they don't understand, why it is such a big deal, to sing along and aside of that the values in the text are not something one can't agree about. But of course, that is the intellectual elite. I guess.
It would be intersting to have an ear on the Turkish community on twitter and facebook, what they think about Özil.
Puuuuh.
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On the match again. Yes, Brazil was unorganized and Germany did play well (or do what they can), but some situations went out in favour of Germany (like-wise), too.
I mean, where Müller trys to shoot and doesn't get it and at the end of the line is Kroos and puts it in. What, if Müller had shot this? (It would at least have come nearer to, where the keeper was at the moment).
Then Schürrles last goal, luck that it didn't get over the box?
Then one other goal through the legs of a brazilian defender. Was the technique and timing at that moment really that good, that Khedira knew, it would go through the legs? I think when he shot, the Brazilian player wasn't allready there and crossed the ball's way, then, but had his legs spread at the wrong time (how that sounds
). You know, what I mean.
I had tipped for 4:1, I was expecting Brazil to make mistakes especially in the defense, but that was... - without words. Wish it would have been 8:0, though, really not wanting to be mean on Brazil.
