Liebe Amerikaner,
you've come a long way. You were always good athletes and generally do your best work under German guidance (von Steuben, Klinsmann), but you've become a goal danger by now. It wasn't a glorious or spirited game of the deutsche Nationalelf, but what we call an "Arbeitssieg" in German, we worked very had (had to work very hard) to win by one goal.
I'd love it if the end game was between Germany and the USA (as is technically possible) - the team with the German trainer would be the sure winner!
And it's about time that you guys became good at a decent, sensible, adult sport. And not just have one guy hit the air with a wooden bat while the rest of the team watches on the bench, play a ghetto sport or prance around dressed like Darth Vader.
(See, I can elegantly offend baseball, basketball and football fans in just one sentence!)
PS: Nofi, you're losing it, the connection between soccer and DP is as overt as the one between smoke and water or high, way and star!
Blackers - in his younger to middle age days - was an excellent soccer player (as a teen he successfully threw the javelin), played regularly (and well, I saw him at a game in the late 80ies, skilled goal getter with an eye for the moment), follows the German Bundesliga avidly and even met his current wife Candice at a New England rock star soccer game she was reporting about for her radio or TV station in the early nineties.
That's Ian Paice behind him btw.
Now give me a difficult task for once!