Originally Posted by
gevad
ESPN. They even have Michael Ballack as one of the color commentators. He almost makes up for Alexi Lalas.
I'm rooting for Germany, too. They're not only very, very good, but they're playing attractive soccer.
ESPN has Ballack? Seriously, that's quite interesting. I've actually never heard him speak English (even if he does, they dub him into German over here
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I don't know about attractive football, it's really precise and played correctly, and very strategic, but I find it missing the passion/beauty of southern european football.
Italy/Germany will be an interesting match. We watch it with people who work for the DFB (German Football Association) so we get a huge amount of backstory, which is quite interesting.
edit: just saw Ballack on ESPN ... where he's discussing the greek:germany match ... a lot of german english in there