Comments on: Euro 2008 LiveBlog: Germany vs Poland

By: Mehran

Mehran — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:52:36 +0000

BRAVO PODOLSKI

By: Arminius

Arminius — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:28:35 +0000

The Klose and the Podolski families preferred Germany over Poland. Whatever their reasons, you have to respect them. Anything else is a symptom of misconceptions – and worse – being sore losers.

Would you call anyone from, say, Italy or Nicaragua or Bangladesh who became a naturalized US citizen an Italian or a Nicaraguan or a Bangladeshi ?

By the way, Klose’s father IS a NATIVE GERMAN, born and raised in that part of Poland that was German for hundreds of years but was ceded to Poland upon Stalin’s wish as a compensation for the eastern regions of Poland that the Soviets took away from the Poles.

Poles are notorious for their inferiority complexes.

O.K., I suffer from that, too, sometimes.

But one should not overdo it – and be stalwart enough – at least once in a while – to acknowledge reality.

By: Radek

Radek — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:21:13 +0000

respect to Podolski … he want play for Poland when he just started , but poland dont want him … im from poland and i think Germany was beter but Poland have a good match and we will win the 2 next match …..(sorry for english)

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:07:27 +0000

yall suck balls.
GERMANY ALL THE WAY !

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:15:36 +0000

come on stay cool here it is football

poland never won against germany and everyone watching the match yesterday knows that it is very unlikely that this will chnage in the near future.

They tried they were motivated but th epolish team is limited and will not make it in the second round and by the way does not deserve it

The strange discussion about podolski or even Klose… None of them have a polish passport or are citizens of poland. Raised in germany learned to play football in germany and that might be also the reason why they play better than the guys in red with similar names. Polish immigration to germany goes on for centuries. Millions of former poles came and come to germany and their children play football as germans kids sometimes do

By: relaxin0001

relaxin0001 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:33:20 +0000

podolski lives in germany since the age of two and there are alot of guys born and raised in germany which choose to play for there country of heritage like the kovac brothers which are born and raised in germany and play for croatia and a couple of guys in the turkish national which is cool.but with podolski everyone calls him a traitor which is pathetic and there is a brazilian guy playing for poland because he couldnt make his own team but thats all cool.im a born raised german jew and love living here and all those poles in the us, aus and wherever else u dont have a fuken clue what your talking about

By: Nobody You Know

Nobody You Know — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:07:50 +0000

I guess he scores for the country that pays him to do just that – scoring!

By: mele419

mele419 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:58:06 +0000

haha, well I thought some one might have been playing a joke, seeing as Podolski is more Polish than German.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:16:59 +0000

Okay, Germany fans. He should now be on the scoreboard as scoring for his adopted homeland rather than the land of his birth. Sorry that we gave any Poland fans false hope.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:14:33 +0000

Mele, yes! Looks like we made a little error. I’ll go in and fix it now.

(The template we’re using is complicated and it’s going to take us a little while to get the hang of it.)