Germans were always the second hope for us, as like a third of them were born Polish or are kids of those born Polish. Now even they didn't leave their group, apparently for the first time since the second world war.
Oh well, gotta watch Brazil. I gambled on them winning in the WC thread, plus their football is pleasant to watch, and so are their fans.
Gotta say it's very interesting to watch Argentina, as Maradona is their coach, which is a huge thing apparently, and it was amusing to see him flipping the bird and screaming "Goal, putos!" at Nigeria. Apparently he also placed a $10k bounty on those who reported that he's dead or something, lmao. The only guys who don't seem to be too amused about Maradona coaching is the freaking team he's coaching. Messi was like "should we just lose to make it finally stop?". He was an amazingly agile footballer, but he wasn't known for being tactical at all (he might be the only player in history who appeared to shoot more times than he passed, sometimes dribbling through the whole field instead), so it's hard to imagine him being a great coach, and his personality must be horrible to deal with.