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???? i can't imagine that the serious german news magazine DER SPIEGEL wrote such offending stuff like this... if that happened maybe it was ironicsraphim wrote: oh, and I'd like to thank the german newspaper De Spiegel, who called the Italian people "parasites" and "nothing but pizza-eaters" in these past days... I hope Grosso and Del Piero's answer last night was enough to deflate your big ego.
zoobeatle said:
Least Hargreaves had a English parent, You only have to go on holiday to Frankfurt for a week to be eligible to play for Germany.
Vincent Vega said:
Funny, because many players from other countries struggled to play in the German national team because they didn't get the German pass. It's really not easy, and we also don't have the dual citizenship like Italy has, or some other countries.
Klose lives in Germany nearly all his life, and Podolski since he is two.
Both were born in Schlesien, which belonged to Germany till the end of WWII. So the roots are Germany again.
If it wasn't for the colonies, Netherlands, England and France would find it very difficult to be that good in soccer.
jacobus said:???? i can't imagine that the serious german news magazine DER SPIEGEL wrote such offending stuff like this... if that happened maybe it was ironic
sraphim said:
some "Achim Achilles" wrote that.
I only had the chance to read the article in my language ('cause I can't understand a word of German )
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/06/sp...piegel/articolo-spiegel/articolo-spiegel.html
in my opinion, the article is a bit over-the-top, and it gets offensive at some point... btw, they received a lot of complaints from Italians living in Germany, and some days ago those 'journalists' wrote down a note in their newspaper saying that they were sorry and that some things they had written were way out of line.
anyway... it's over now. I just hope next time they'll have more respect for our team, and most importantly, for our country
edit: I found the aforementioned note (just because they wrote it down in Italian and English too )
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,423809,00.html
but looks like they deleted the whole article... I wonder why
I don't know about England and France, but all the players in the dutch squad were born in The NetherlandsVincent Vega said:If it wasn't for the colonies, Netherlands, England and France would find it very difficult to be that good in soccer.
Vincent Vega said:
So don't take that too serious
Salome said:I don't know about England and France, but all the players in the dutch squad were born in The Netherlands
that their grandparents (or the generation before that) decided to move to The Netherlands doesn't make these players any less dutch
personally I think they would take offense to claims that they aren't dutch
pepokiss said:wait... is this a party too??
J_NP said:Dont be like this annie the team is fightin , Portugal is makin me proud of it's footy , very very good , very fightin , nothin like Brazil Those bastards .....
zoobeatle said:When is this disgrace Ronaldo gonna be sent off? cheat.