ich bin ein auslander

I have some new grey hairs after that game. Warning - the rest of this post is not family friendly.

My internal (and external) monologue for the game:
OK, let’s go. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. FUCKKKKKKK. Fuck. Wait… come on! Fuck. Fuck. YES!!!!!!!!!! Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Whew.

I will be at Finn McCool’s at 8am for the Germany v Argentina game. Come on down and have a heifeweizen with me.

I’m staring into the dark of my first two soccer-less days in weeks. The round of 16 has ended, AND THERE ARE NO GAMES UNTIL FRIDAY. Thankfully I still have some saved on TIVO. Guess I’ll watch them again at 8am.

So we’re down to it. It’s quarter-finals time, only 8 teams remain. The fun begins on friday, bright and early at 8am for me.. I will most definately be drinking for this one. It’s up to the soccer gods whether i’ll be drinking from joy with a strong German showing, or in despondency as Argentina manages to ruin yet another World Cup for me. A brief break, during which I will hopefully be jumping up and down and streaking down Main Street chanting “Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles…” or crying in a few more beers, and it’ll be Italy v the Ukraine. Italy has really sucked so far, but experience should allow them to knock of the Ukrainians fairly easily…

Saturday will bring the last two quarter final games, England v Portugal in the early slot… once again, England hasn’t impressed while Portugal’s being pretty damn plucky, but England SHOULD win. Of course, they have a long history of blowing it… and then Brazil v France, which will bring the strangest moment of all my World Cup experiences so far… I will actually be rooting for France. Only the Brazilians could make that happen.

My expectations for the semis - Germany v Italy in game one, with Germany going to the final, and England v Brazil in game two, with Brazil advancing as well.

How Europe loves the hear that phrase.

Great game. Let’s see how Argentina plays against Mexico this afternoon…

The Round of 16 is set.

Germany v Sweden
Argentina v Mexican
England v Ecudaor
Portugal v Netherlands
Italy v Australia
Switzerland v Ukraine
Brazil v Ghana
Spain v France

Now it gets interesting.

As long as Germany can knock off Argentina in the quarter final round, I’m predicting a Brazil v Germany final.