Euro 2008 open thread

Can either host score in their opener? Can the Germans live up to their high expectations? Is it a replay of Slavic Europe vs Germanic Europe, or is it just a game with a ball?

All this and more in Sunday’s games…

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Freelance journalist based in Tbilisi, following stints in Atlanta, Budapest, Munich, Warsaw and Washington. Worked for a German think tank, discovered it was incompatible with repaying US student loans. Spent two years in financial markets. Bicycled from Vilnius to Tallinn. Climbed highest mountains in two Alpine countries (the easy ones, though). American center-left, with strong yellow dog tendencies. Arrived in the Caucasus two weeks before its latest war.

7 thoughts on “Euro 2008 open thread

  1. Having the three Polish born players on the German squad makes the geopolitical interpretation a bit more complicated.

  2. Looking at this match in Vienna is a reminder of the downside of using multi-purpose venues for the tournament — crowd is very far from the action, especially at the ends.

  3. Poor Poland. They lost because the Polish-born Podolski scored two goals.

  4. Of course the host team struggles a part of it but it would be nice if any match had featured more than one team scoring.

  5. I guess it was a fair deal this sunday: poland’s podolski made germany win and germany’s bmw allowed poland’s kubica to win.

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