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SoccerNews Issue # 05, June 30th 2014

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Costa Rica triumphed 5-3. The 2010 World Cup finalists avoided extra time Did you know … when Schalke’s Jan Klaas Huntelaar safely converted a penalty in the final minute, after … that penalty shoot-outs were was fouled. The encounter between the Dutch and the Mexicans took introduced at World Cup finals place in Fortaleza under extreme conditions, in 1982. because the heat and sun exposure were very intense at 13:00hrs local time. The referee then won the semi-final against granted two additional drinks breaks. France. Altogether so far 24 matches have been decided on penalties – including two The Netherlands also upset the impression second-round matches last weekend in that the South and Central American teams . would have advantages in Brazil because they are accustomed to the climatic conditions. The strong playing Mexican team led 1-0, but … that the 1998 and 2002 the team of , the former Bayern finals matches could be Munich and future Manchester United , retaliated in the oven of the Costelao Stadium. decided by a Golden The tactical system switched to attack in two stages. At the end the formation was a 4-2-4. The first goal scored in extra time. Three scored the equaliser in the second-round games and one quarter-final 88th minute, set up by a Huntelaar header, were decided that way. and finally the substituted Schalke striker calmly converted the penalty to reach the … that red and yellow cards quarter-finals. “I am very proud of the team and that I am in it. We have fought to exhaus- have been shown since the tion and have been rewarded”, said , Arjen Robben and his Elftal meet in the quarterfinals the team from Costa Rica 1970 World Cup in Mexico. who became the seventh Dutch player to win 100 caps. Since Italy, as co-favourites, Sendings-off have existed for decades, but World Cup insight the high-class tournament in Brazil. The first and England, as the mother country of foot- the cards now clearly identify the players quarter-final fixtures were determined at the ball with the most spectacular league in the involved, especially for spectators, who pre- weekend: Brazil will meet Colombia (Friday, world, had already been eliminated in the first Penalty shoot-outs mark knock- viously didn’t easily recognise whom the 22:00hrs CEST) and the Netherlands will play round, Holland were the first European team referees were punishing. out matches Costa Rica (Saturday, 22:00hrs CEST). to join the best eight World Cup teams.

Three of the first four knock-out matches of To decide the matches between Brazil and the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ finals were decided (1-1) and Costa Rica versus Greece on penalties, with these exciting encounters (1-1) 120 minutes were needed – plus penalty underlining again the excellent quality of shoot-outs, which the host team won 3-2 and SoccerNews # 05/2014 3

World Cup insight Cup champions Uruguay, who had forced out England and Italy in Group D. Colombia once again underlined that they are rightly consid- ered an outsider favourite at the 20th World Brazil’s collec- Cup tournament, even without their injured world-class striker Radomel Falcao. Brazil are tive breathe facing their next tough task in the quarter- finals, since coach Felipe Scolari’s team did not fully convince during the 1-1 against Chile of relief after 120 minutes, and the earlier 1-1 draw with Mexico. The Brazilians were very lucky when Chilean hit the crossbar in the last second of extra time, which would have Relief breathing could be heard avoided his country’s sixth successive elimina- throughout Brazil when the ex- tion in the second round of World Cup finals. With a winning goal for “El Tri” the “Blues” tremely thrilling and intensive would have silenced Brazil, but now the en- match in was thusiasm can continue in the hosting country. finally at an end. Costa Rica celebrated reaching the quarter- finals in the fourth second-round match on Brazil’s keeper Julio Cesar was the hero of the Sunday evening. It is a great success for the “Seleção”, saving shots from Mauricio Pinella Central American team, their best ever result and Alexis Sanchez in the penalty shoot-out. at a World Cup. 2004 European champions In addition, Chile’s hit the post. Greece were the dominant team with more The defender was the unluckiest among the ball possession and more scoring opportuni- strong Chile team, because it was he who had ties in Recife. Captain gave Costa scored to give Brazil the lead with an own Rica the lead (52nd min), but Dortmund’s goal (18th min). Sanchez achieved the equa- Sokratis equalised shortly before the end liser after a mistake by (32nd min). “It’s of added time (90th+2). The Greeks missed more than happiness I am feeling just now”, too many good scoring opportunities, the said Cesar after the final whistle, with tears of Central Americans converted all penalties in joy running down his cheeks. “Now there are the shoot-out, and goalkeeper three more stages to come. My great dream is saved from former top goalscorer to see Brazil united in one big party”. . After England and Italy, Costa Rica had managed to eliminate a third Colombia underlined their power with their European team. fourth win in their fourth World Cup match, defeating in two-time World The captain of the Seleção, , in a three-way battle with and Marcelo Diaz SoccerNews # 05/2014 4

Boom’s Brazil Tears for souvenirs

In the round of the last 16, there was no holding back any more. Chile’s players wept as the penalty shoot-out went against them. The Brazilians cried when they realized they were through. Netherlands vs Mexico: same scenes, different countries. Not to mention the Greeks. Now even this author’s getting all teary-eyed. by Freddy Boom

OK fans, it’s time to drop your shorts and tell it as it is. And at this point I must interrupt my article at the recommendation of the legal department at SoccerNews and explain that I am speaking purely metaphorically. Otherwise we might have problems with the World Cup organizers. It’s bad enough that investigations are underway into ’s exposure of non- FIFA-approved underwear during Brazil’s final group match against Cameroon. We at SoccerNews couldn’t care less about the suspiciously weak elastic in Neymar’s shorts. Continental makes tires, not underpants, so there’s no conflict of interest for the company as one of the official sponsors of the FIFA World On a tear and a prayer: Brazilian players suffer during the penalty shoot-out against Chile. Photo: Getty Cup. Go Neymar, go! Come to think of it, is there actually an official underwear sponsor at the World Cup? My exhaustive them of the Ivory Coast rang out, and almost all Brazilian men teary-eyed Brazilian reporter after the hosts’ narrow escape in study of the pitchside banners hasn’t revealed one. Or do seem to have tears in their eyes when they sing – or should I the penalty shoot-out. “Yingli Solar” make briefs? But I’m getting sidetracked. Like I say shout – their anthem. And Luis Suárez is probably weeping said, this really has nothing to do with us at all. in his mother’s arms right now, because when his biting ban It was that Brazil match on Saturday night that finally broke my was announced it was to his parent’s place in Uruguay that he resistance. I was overcome by phantom grief, which is closely More to the point: Yes, I did it too. I cried. And I’m not ashamed fled. With the onset of the round of the last 16, all pretense of related to phantom pain. It felt as if a Chilean heart, overflow- of my tears. Quite the opposite. Crying is all the rage. As the self-control has been abandoned. After the last-minute drama- ing with desperation, had lodged itself in my chest, where nor- Saturday edition of Germany’s “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” tics of Brazil vs Chile, Netherlands vs Mexico and Costa Rica mally only weary sarcasm and the presumptuous arrogance put it: “Never before have so many wept so readily as at this vs Greece, they all broke down and cried – the victors out of of a sports reporter reside. Oh but that picture from the 107th World Cup.” Spain’s wept as they were knocked out sheer relief, the losers in deep despair. “Of course men are minute when Chile’s was carried off in one of at the group stage. Serey Dié shed tears as the national an- allowed to cry,” sobbed into the microphone of a those bright orange Brazilian bathtubs with his thigh swathed SoccerNews # 05/2014 5

Quotes of the day Success is as short- It was simply lived as the air in clever of me. your hands.

Speaking before the match, Mexican coach Miguel Herrera virtually predicts their tragic defeat at the Dutch forward Arjen Robben after their lucky win against Mexico. In the time added on, Robben went to hands of the Dutch. ground theatrically in the box and was awarded the decisive penalty

in bandages… Many a tear dripped into that OK, I’m back. Restored to some kind of equa- Just three more things for today: First off, looks pretty good at first sight. But if I were tub. They were in extra time. It was 1:1 and no nimity. When I come to think about it, maybe who’d like to be US President? Think hard Robben & Co. I’d take a leaf out of the African way did he want to leave the field. We wanted my red-eye look on Saturday evening had before you answer. Remember that photo of teams’ book: start an argument over winning to help his team, as if he knew in advance something to do with rubbing my TV-tired Barack Obama on Air Force One, wearing a bonuses and then boycott training sessions. A what fate awaited them – what depths of eyes after so many World Cup nights with tie and seated at a vast mahogany table in the trip into space? As a responsible family dad? gloom and despair would gape open in front fingers that had previously delved into a pack company of a couple of grimly servile staff So if we see Robben in the final, storming to- of the Chilean nation just 30 minutes later. of “Salsa do Brasil”-flavored potato chips…. watching Germany vs USA on a flat screen wards a goalie, one-on-one, only to miss by a And when it was all over, when the last Chilean Men and crying? Ha! Never one to hide his mounted high up under the cabin ceiling? mile like he did against Spain in , penalty bounced back off the post, the cam- emotions, German TV football expert Mehmet That’s not my idea of fan fun. Second, Franz we’ll know why. Outer space? No thanks. And eras swung once again to Gary Medel. He was Scholl claimed that after Brazil’s match against Beckenbauer, that penumbral figure from anyway, why fly when you can dive so well? in tears – again or still, who knows? It’s all too Chile “even my goose bumps had goose FIFA’s middle earth, is being allowed to attend Ask any Mexican. You can’t have it both ways. much for me. As I type this I can hardly see bumps”. That’s about as extreme as it gets the World Cup after all. But claims he no longer my own fungers on the kyebroad… I’ll have among men… And even then, maybe it was wants to. Sulk. And finally, a Dutch aerospace to stop for a moment. Normal service will be just a reaction to the spicy finger food they’d company wants to send the Netherlands resumed as soon as possible. been serving in the studio canteen… Seems team into space if they bring home the World like the local cuisine has a lot to answer for! Cup. An hour up in space for winning the title SoccerNews # 05/2014 6

to his friend Sir . Hitzfeld de- instead took a three-year break, but remained clined with thanks, and the English record- linked to football as a TV expert. When FC winning champions finally signed Louis van Bayern needed a coach again in 2007, the Gaal. “I retire at the climax of my career”, the batteries were recharged, and resulted in German emphasises. another double title. By titles – in the Bundes- liga alone he boasts seven championships, He wants to delay the end of his career to as including those with in near the 13th of July as possible, however. “We the 1990’s – he is the second most successful can make football history”, said Hitzfeld, when German coach behind , by points the minimum goal of the second round was (1.98 on average) even the best. reached. Small will have to oust big Argentina in order to remain in the tourna- In the calm surroundings of the Swiss “Nati” at ment. This coup is not beyond the realms of accommodation at La Torre, just 15km away possibility for the coach with the gene of suc- from German Campo , but separated cess. Who would have thought that he was to by the large river Joao di Tiba, he is now become one of just five coaches to win the absorbing the “intensive moments” of this so European club title twice when he made his spectacular World Cup finals. He will be happy coaching debut with SC Zug in Switzerland in when the stress is over, Hitzfeld underlines. 1983? Possibly the end will come on Tuesday against Messi, probably the most exceptionally gifted Hitzfeld prepares calmly for this important footballer. But if a sensation is achieved? Then , the great coach at one of his last duties during the FIFA World Cup. With the last game ends encounter. He has never left his own path, it will go on as usual. Analysis of the oppo- his career. (Photo: GES / Augenklick) not even during the turbulent times with FC nents, tactics meeting, final training, media Bayern Munich and all the accompanying dates. side events. Five years with Bayern are like World Cup insight over. If Switzerland’s national team lose their ten with another club, the coach discloses. second-round World Cup match in São Paulo With the Bavarians he won everything there to superstar and Argentina, as Hitzfeld’s end as a coach is to win. But his health suffered. He was worn everyone expects, Hitzfeld’s coaching career out after six years in Munich in 2004. “I had a Did you know … is approaching will be finished after 31 years, 25 titles and two small burnout“. World Cup participations. . It was as always. Analysis of Consequently the phone call by the Ger- … that at the 1970 World Cup in the opponents, tactics meeting, final train- And then? “I know I will be bored when this is man Football Association (DFB) came at the ing, media dates. Then the last hours before over”, says Hitzfeld, but his decision to retire Mexico two field players could most inopportune time. In the summer of kick-off, the drive to the stadium, the clearly is “irrevocable”. At 65, pension age has been 2004 Germany were desperately looking be substituted for the first time. increasing tension, the last orders, a few reached. What else should he do? Go on for for a good coach when team manager Rudi motivating words. Ottmar Hitzfeld has lived another four years until the next World Cup? Voeller resigned after the weak performance Up till then not even injured players could be through that scenario in over 1,000 matches He would then be 69, and his wife Beatrix at the European Championship in Portugal. replaced. From 1994 the goalkeeper could be as a coach. Business as usual, be it the mas- would certainly rebel. Coach another club And Hitzfeld admits he would have liked to changed also, and since 1998 three substitu- sive encounters in the Champions League or again with all the stress? Certainly not. Man- have become national coach. “But it wouldn’t tions have been allowed. the competitive Bundesliga matches. But on chester United allegedly asked in the spring. have gone well”, says the former striker, who Tuesday (18:00hrs CEST) everything could be He could have become the second successor SoccerNews # 05/2014 7

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Then came the big day on which the Bentley man. His name was and after, he joined forces with other footballing was to make its last short journey. The televi- he is widely accredited with bringing football pioneers from Europe and founded Brazil’s sion cameras were all set up and a special to the land of the five-time World Cup winners. first football league. Among the prime mov- ramp had been built to help the luxury limou- He also brought the first football to Brazil ers was a young man from Hamburg by the sine roll into its final resting place... then Scarpa and scored the first goal on Brazilian soil. 140 name of Hans Nobiling. 20 year-old Nobiling called an unexpected halt to proceedings. He years ago, in 1874, Miller was born to a couple had trained in commerce and when he disem- waited until every last camera was focused on of Scottish immigrants in São Paulo. The na- barked in São Paulo in 1897 he lost no time in him, then solemnly declared: “I am not going tion was still in its infancy as the state of Brazil founding Sport Club Germânia – an offshoot to bury my car. Many people say it’s absurd to had only been founded in 1822. And with its of the eponymous club in Hamburg, which bury such an expensive car. But most people intoxicating natural beauty, warm climate and was to later to become Hamburger Sportverein actually bury something far more precious: promise of prosperity, this exotic country had or HSV as the Bundesliga club is commonly their own organs. And burying something that rapidly become one of the most popular des- known. And so it was that, in 1899, two multi- can save lives is truly absurd.” tinations for the more adventurous European cultural teams made up of immigrants from a Billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa announced he was emigrants. patchwork of nations met to contest the first going to bury his Bentley. Photo: Scarpa Then Scarpa held up a sign saying: “I’m an ever official football match in Brazil. organ donor. How about you?” It was the start of a large scale campaign to attract organ Not many of them could actually play decent Did you know ... donors in Brazil and from one minute to the football. It was left to the young coach and tal- next, Scarpa was transformed from an object ent scout , who shortly before ... that a Brazilian billionaire once of derision into a national hero. The number leaving for Brazil became German champion wanted to bury a Bentley in his of organ donors soared – and the Bentley was at 1500 meters, to discover the first real happier, too. Brazilian superstar. was garden? the son of a German merchant and his black An excerpt from “Fast alles über Autos. Ein Sam- Brazilian wife and according to FIFA statistics melsurium” by Jürgen Pander (published by Delius remains the most successful Brazilian player Late last year, eccentric Brazilian billionaire Klasing Verlag). Reproduced by kind permission of of all time with 1,329 goals for SC Germânia to Chiquinho Scarpa caused quite a stir in his the author. his credit. He also triggered a sea change in home country when he announced he was go- Pioneers of Brazilian footballing wizardry: The SC Brazilian society, where slavery had only been ing to bury his Bentley (retail price €370,000 Germânia 1899 team with Hans Nobiling (in front of prohibited in 1888. As the German weekly or so) in the garden of his villa. His reasons the tree). Did you know ... newspaper “die Zeit” reported: “It was only were as weird as the burial plan itself: in the when Brazilian football opened up to Afro- tradition of the ancient pharaohs, Scarpa said, Like so many sons of moneyed immigrants, Brazilian players that it became the national he wanted to have his prized possessions at his … that Brazil’s first football player Charles Miller was packed off to boarding sport and a symbol of the Brazilian nation.” disposal in the next life. The announcement, school in England. It was here that he learned was a Scotsman? Later, during World War II, SC Germânia was which featured a photo of Scarpa dressed in to play football and when he rejoined his renamed Esporte Clube Pinheiros and is today a suit with a breast-pocket handkerchief and family in 1894, he brought with him the first one of the country’s leading clubs. clutching a shovel, standing between his black When you look at Neymar & Co today or football to arrive in Brazil and a good help- Bentley and a big hole in the lawn, triggered a watch recordings of previous World Cups with ing of the British passion for this fledgling wave of protest. A heated debate over respon- Brazilian footballing wizards like Pelé, Ronaldo sport. At São Paulo Athletic Club, originally sibility, riches and the relationship between the or , it’s hard to credit that the coun- founded as a cricket club, he linked up with two duly followed. try’s very first footballer was actually a Scots- other early lovers of the game. Not long