Ya. A sweat SUIT. Cotton. Collar zipped up to his chin. Wearing cleats. I kid. Klinsmann looked good and coached well.
Anybody else think it's funny as hell how baseball coaches wear the team uniform? At least nowadays everybody wears them looser. In the days of short pants and skin tight uniforms that was rather painful to watch lots of times. I think NBA coaches should show up in shorts and tank tops, football coaches in helmets...
I remember one of our high school teachers asking us who's proud to be a German, and just me and one other (out of about 30) raised hands. Granted, some of those who didn't just didn't listen, but in the subsequent discussion, I was also pretty alone against several people saying that you can only be proud of your own archievements, and the country is not your archievement (a sentiment that I not only find wrong, but kind of worrying in a democracy...) Equating "I'm proud to be a German" with "I'm a Neonazi" might be a bit hyperbolic, and there was flag-waving at previous World Cups and nt-matches, but national pride isn't as big or as open in Germany as it is elsewhere, and it is certainly true that a flagpole in the backyard with a Germany-flag is a rare sight. Soccer club flags are much more common, I'd say.
It's funny you say that, because it was Beckenbauer who I heard most recently say what I said about the football displays of patriotism when he was recommending Klinsmann be hired for England. I first heard of the idea (along with my favorite German word, Ausländerfeindlichkeit) while studying abroad at Uni of Köln in my German culture class there. So it can't be completely a collection of misconceptions, can it?
Our National Team Crest represents the past ? No. ... and you're being the most ignorant ********** I've ever seen on these boards. I hope you die slowly in a fire.
I actually knew a German girl, a foreign at my school and Schlampe is one of the words i learned. With that being said i really don't like our crest, but i think it could work better if it was rendered in all white. Similar to how it was on the walls last night.
If Klinsmann kissed his lucky egg before every half and every sub, I wouldn't be too surprised for some reason... "It's my lucky egg. From a farm near Wurzburg. Hehehehehe!"
Seriously? "Jurgen not wearing the USMNT crest"? Damn! No wonder the Mexi Pads fans calls the US fans "Spazzos".
The tucked in tight polo shirt is better than the skintight sweat pants. Klinsi looked like the manager of a Best Buy. Bob Bradley, on the other hand, dressed like a jogger that was trying to cruise for a lemon party. As for Gangster Style old English lettering, to explain, it's a habit among North American gangsters to have either an intimidating phrase, a the name of your home turf, the name of your gang, or the name of your deity of choice tattooed across one's chest or back, like so: Here, this man chose the intimidating phrase, but it also mentions the deity of his choice. And yes, imagine Klinsi shirtless with "Don't tread on me" scrawled on his chest, and "Schadenfruede ist die beste Fruede" on his back.
How the hell ever did archaic English-Teutonic Blackletter style script ever become the designated gangster tattoo script of choice? Anyone want to explain that one to me?
I watch the Bundesliga and I'd be surprised if half of the coaches wear any team gear except at training. They mostly like they are going for a walk on a cold winter day. Jupp Heynckes (Bayern Munich) Jurgen Klopp (Dortmund) Felix Magath (Wolfsburg)
Blah. Lame thread. What I couldn't help thinking about, seeing Klinny next to Dooley, was this bad memory from 1998: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2MDKR57U2o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2MDKR57U2o[/ame]
I don't know, I guess because it's supposed to look intimidating or something. It just gives the impression that you are really, really into Chaucer and Shakespeare. Although, to be honest, it would be funny to see somebody tattoo "Thug Life" across their chest in Helvetica or Arial. That would be hilarious. "Only God Can Judge Me" doesn't look so bad-ass when tattooed in Comic Sans.