Today, the United States national team in football (or soccer, if you are North American) will meet Germany in match deciding who will advance from group G to the next round of the World Cup 2014. At the same time, in Brasilia, Portugal will meet Ghana. Before the last round to be played today, Germany tops the group with 4 points, USA is second, also with 4 points but with a worse goal difference, whereas Ghana and Portugal have each 1 point. If Germany and USA draw their match today, they would both advance further. If, on the other hand, either one of them wins, either Ghana or Portugal still can dream about the qualification to the next round, although Portugal would have to win by 3 goals margin, at least.
Since USA coach Jurgen Klinsman is German, and he and Joachim Low, the coach of Germany were coaching together Germany in 2006 World Cup, there is a lot of speculation that USA and Germany have a non-aggression pact, similar to the infamous Pact of Non-Aggression between West Germany and Austria at 1982 World Cup in Spain, where after West Germany in their last group match beat Austria 1:0 (W. Germany's Horst Hrubesch scored the winning goal in 10th minute, and then both teams pretended to play football to the end of the match because this score was giving qualification to Austria and West Germany, and Algeria who in other match beat Chile, and earlier W. Germany, was eliminated). That infamous match is known in Germany as Nichtangriffspakt von Gijon (Non-Aggression Pact of Gijon) or Schande von Gijon (Disgrace of Gijon). German ARD television commentator Eberhard Stanjek at some point refused to continue with commenting whereas Austrian commentator Robert Seeger requested that the viewers should switch off their television sets.
Will we have to watch today the replay of the infamous non-aggression pact of Gijon? Jurgen Klinsman indicated USA will beat Germany, whereas to all the experts all over the world the Germans are the favorites and should beat the Americans at ease, with the pool of talent they have at their disposal to which USA can respond only with team spirit, great conditioning and iron will to win. Let's hope that sport and forces of good will claim the win, as they should.
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