News: Other Teams - WC 2022 / International Edition (R)

Future Balon d Or winner for sure.

 

True lol
Although I probably wouldn’t mind if Germany won this way, so i might be a bit hypocrital

No matter the outcome today, the penalty to France will be the crucial point of this match

 

This is insane.

Mandzukic becomes the first player to score at both ends of a WC final. Doubt what he knew what he was doing during either.

 

That's what happens when you try to play like Neuer but you're not Neuer!

This has been a ludicrous display thus far - very appropriate for this World Cup, terrible in terms of quality but super entertaining!

 

At the end of the day winning is all that matters. I still rather win by out playing the other team than through luck.

 

Olivier Giroud a.k.a. Stephane Guiv'arch part deux.

 

A perfect example were possession in modern football counts for nothing if you have a sharp attack, hopefully loew has learned his lesson

 

I think everyone realizes that this is only the beginning of what a french side gifted with incredible talent can accomplish. You need to try to beat them in other ways (tactically maybe) and not by pure talent. Would suck (except for the French fans) to see a repeat of the Spanish domination.

 

You have to take your goal chances. Thats key.

France created nothing in the first half and led thanks to an OG and wrongly given penalty. At the end of the day the more talented team managed to beat the underdogs thanks to a ton of luck.

 

This should already be their second title.

 

Congrats to France. It sucks that Löw has nearly wasted a generation of German talent, and now on the back of the most embarrassing failure in Germany football he gets to take on the rebuild.

Guis Hidink postgame talking about how disappointed he was in the quality of the final.

 

Viva La France

Glad they won although the way it happened... feel bad for Croatia

 

Why would you be glad our rivals won a tournament?

 

Sometimes you should be able to acknowledge despite the differences

Despite Germany being my team, I don’t have anything against France
nor England really despite their ego

 

I would have preferred Croatia to win it but the only french player I really dislike is Griezmann because his Take the L dance celebration is obnoxious and unsportsmanlike behaviour to the max. I would have loved for him to lose the final so he can make that dance in front of a mirror.

 

Had Croatia won it wouldn't have surprised me to see European right-wing extremists claim this as a victory for true Europeans, as Croatia is made up entirely of ethnic Croats whereas France i multi-ethnic.

Anyways congratulations France on winning your second World Cup title.

 

WTF is up with ZDF’s audio!? It’s been this way the whole time! [emoji35]

 

look forward to the day where a German is future Ballon D'or potential as we still lack game changing players on our team.

 

It is ironic that nations with exploitive colonial policies in their past are reaping the rewards in sporting matters. Like Belgium and France.

 

Shocked that Messi wasn’t GIVEN the golden ball again.

 

boo, also Deschamps has now equaled Beckenbauer as ex winning WC champs who coaches his country to WC glory.

 

I think a member of our 2014 squad will do it as well one day.

Maybe Lahm or Klose.

 

WC trend continues, big teams are still the champs. Spain always had the talent but always underachieved so them eventually winning the WC was coming. And La Liga was always one of the best leagues in the world.

 

The ceremony was odd. For a good 2-3 minutes when they handed out the medals in the rain, only Putin had an umbrella. Macron and the Croatian leader were getting drenched.
Surely this must be a breach of some diplomatic protocol.

Seeing Lahm hand over the trophy was painful. Would have been nice to seen him hand it to Neuer. Good to see Lahm again though.

 

Still can't get over how insanely hot the president of Croatia is. Her husband is one lucky guy.