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"Low Profile" <bl...@blah.com> wrote in message 
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> But that current team beat 'your' Costa Rica 4-2... that's why i meant 
> Costa Rica isn't a strong side... they play against poorly performing 
> germans, and still lose with big numbers.

It is not "my" Costa Rica. Big numbers? A 2 goal diff isn't that much. And
the Germans did not perform poorly. I never said that. I said that their 
current
team isn't that good, but a team can grow in a tournament. Look at Holland
in the European Youth Championship. And a sidenote to that, van Basten
is an idiot that he didn't bring Huntelaar along.

> Besides, Germany will at least reach the semi finals... mark my words... I 
> mean... they're GERMANS, they always come far... no matter how crappy they 
> might have performed up till now :P  (and yes, we dutch hate them for 
> that)
> I agree Greece was a fluke, but so is the FIFA ranking system ;D

You're probably right about the Germans. They have this chauvinistic 
attitude
that makes them overcome huge barriers. It wasn't for nothing that one 
German
in WW2 was as effective as TWO allied soldiers.

>> Oh, and friendly games do not count. :D
>
> They do in the FIFA ranking :P

Not in the tournament. :D What I meant was, van Basten used those friendly 
games
to experiment a lot. And if you experiment, you're prepared, and often 
expect, to
lose.