Michael Ballack destroys American "Anaylst" Alexi Lalas on ESPN!

[KC McElroy]

I don't think he's wrong in what he's saying. Look at the closer analogy: qatar parked a bus in front of their goal and with anti soccer gained a point in a competitive match against us. So which country is happy about gaining a point and which one is pissed? As far as tactics and goals qatar won, even if it game in the shape of a tie.
Had this been a friendly game, I would have said the opposite.

[rugs]

Lalas has always been known as an idiot who has no understanding of football.

When I was in the US my American friends hated seeing the guy on tv. His views are so clearly biased. I'm surprised they let him back on TV after his horrible performance during the WC 2010.

[Paradigm]

This Qatar-Iran game reminded me of the opening game of Iran versus Thailand in the Asian Cup 2004. Well of course back then the result turned out different because there was a young Ali Karimi (the Asian Maradona) who finally dribbled his way through the dense Thai defense and set up Enayati for a simple tap in. After that Thailand opened up and team melli scored another couple of goals. This time around though, Karimi was perhaps a bit too old to do his usual magic.

[KeonKish]

which german do you know that does not sound like robot when speaking in english, other then hedi klum

Germans sound like robots because they are very ashamed of having an accent. They are perfectionists and make fun of their own people when they have accents. Germany as a country is quite cold and robotic.
But mike ballack was totally right

[Masoud_A]

this relates to iran qatar too, when a team is defending with ten men its hard to score on them, you can go on the WINGS which is why carlos told the team to use the wings, and we are not france, so we cant do what they did...
barca chelsea same scenario, the better team lost point

And Qatar are not exactly England either now are they?

[shayan_esteghlali]

this relates to iran qatar too, when a team is defending with ten men its hard to score on them, you can go on the WINGS which is why carlos told the team to use the wings, and we are not france, so we cant do what they did...
barca chelsea same scenario, the better team lost point

[Masoud_A]

which german do you know that does not sound like robot when speaking in english, other then hedi klum

Well I have two German friends and have met many more who speak English with 'emotion' I guess? I know it's hard to judge when you live in Mexico and your sole source is TV but your statement is as laughable as for instance me claiming all Mexicans speak like Speedy Gonzales.

[Masoud_A]

Football is before all a collective sport and not individual. Overall, though I do not think this French team is a strong one however, I believe France football team is a bit stronger than English team.

I was obviously trying to point how Lalas was wrong on the individual talent discrepancy issue.

[persian-eagle-13]

which german do you know that does not sound like robot when speaking in english, other then hedi klum

[Asghar Agha]

Did Lalas seriously say England is playing to the level of talent they got and France clearly has the superior players?
Joe Hart>Lloris
Terry>Rami
Lescott>Mexes
Cole~Evra
Johnson>Debuchy
Milner<Ribery
Gerrard~Nasri
Parker>Malouda
Chamberlain<Diarra
Young>Cabaye
Welbeck<Benzema
Walcott>Ben Arfa
Defoe>Martin

Football is before all a collective sport and not individual. Overall, though I do not think this French team is a strong one however, I believe France football team is a bit stronger than English team.

[KC McElroy]

ballack usually sounds like a robot and i hate listening to his analysis because he is too damn boring for tv lol.

It could be because he is German and so he thinks and translates the words in his mind from German before saying them in English so they don't come out wrong.

[arash123]

ballack usually sounds like a robot and i hate listening to his analysis because he is too damn boring for tv lol.

[persian-eagle-13]

LOOL normally they coordinate the post game show between the analyzers that it does not look good or bad one way or anther, but the way they were disagreeing with each other was funny. i do not think there was any rehearsal of the post match show, this was raw show

[Ghormeh Sabzi]

never liked that stupid red head american... BALLACK MA BOY SINCE DAY1!!!! :d

[Paradigm]

Have you noticed also, Lalas made gay-sounding overtures to Ballack on a couple of occasions?