Soccer World Cup semi-final Brazil - Germany 2014

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Inside view of the Mineirão before the start of the semi-finals

The World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany on July 8, 2014 was the first of the two semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup . The reigning record world champion Brazil with five titles lost the game against the three-time title holder and eventual tournament winner Germany with 1: 7. As the biggest defeat in the semi-finals of a soccer world championship, it was nicknamed Mineiraço in Brazil , roughly equivalent to “Shock from Mineirão ”. This name is derived from the short name "Mineirão" of the Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto stadium in Belo Horizonte and recalls the nickname Maracanaço for Brazil's defeat against Uruguay at the 1950 World Cup in the Estádio do Maracanã .

prehistory

The national team of Brazil during the national anthem before the start of the game

In the only ever encounter between the two national teams at a World Cup, the 2002 World Cup final , Brazil won 2-0. In the following two World Cup tournaments, Brazil failed in the quarter-finals against eventual vice world champions ( 2006 France and 2010 Netherlands ) and Germany in the semifinals against eventual world champions ( 2006 Italy and 2010 Spain ). Germany had won against Brazil only four times in 21 international matches. Brazil had won twelve times, most recently in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup in Germany in 2005 with 3-2. At the Confederations Cup in 1999 , Brazil had their biggest win against Germany, 4-0. Germany's biggest win against Brazil was a 2-0 win on March 12, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main . The last clash between the two teams took place on August 10, 2011, when Germany won 3-2 in Stuttgart and achieved their first win against the Brazilians in 18 years.

Both teams had prevailed in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup with two wins and one draw each. In the second round Germany defeated Algeria with 1: 2 n. V. , Brazil defeated Chile with 4: 3 . N E. In the quarter-finals to Germany continued against France with 1: 0 by, while Brazil Colombia with 2: 1 threw out of the tournament. Brazil made it into the last four teams of a World Cup for the 11th time in its 20th participation, for Germany it was the 13th time in the 18th World Cup tournament. Brazil last reached a World Cup semi-final in 2002, Germany in 2010. For Germany it was also the fourth semi-finals in a row since 2002. For Brazil it was the 103rd and for Germany the 105th World Cup game. It was only the fourth semi-final between a South American and European team on the American double continent and before that the South American team had always prevailed: 1930 Uruguay against Yugoslavia 6-1, 1986 Argentina 2-0 against Belgium and 1994 Brazil 1-0 against Sweden. All three subsequently also became world champions.

Two important Brazilian players were unable to play in the semi-finals: Neymar , striker and undisputed star of the team, suffered a lumbar vertebra fracture in the quarter-final match due to a foul by Juan Zúñiga , and team captain Thiago Silva was suspended after two yellow cards . Only Shkodran Mustafi was not available for the German team due to an injury.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was confident of reaching the final despite Neymar's failure. Observers had followed Germany's last two games and showed how they could be beaten. National coach Joachim Löw regretted the absence of Neymar and spoke of going confidently into the game despite the cheering for the opponent from the audience.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph , Scolari surprised the Brazilian players with a change in the line-up six hours before kick-off: After training with the three midfielders Luiz Gustavo , Fernandinho and Paulinho to oppose the German midfield trio Schweinsteiger , Khedira and Kroos , he waived he briefly on Paulinho. Instead, he brought Bernard on the offensive on the left wing without having studied this variant in training.

Course of the game

Klose, Özil, Khedira and Müller ( from left to right ) celebrating the goal to make it 0: 5 (29th minute of the game)

Brazil began impressively, the German team pushed through aggressive pressing in their area and came this way after two minutes through Marcelo to a first scoring chance. After the German team had survived the initial printing phase without conceding a goal, they took the lead 11 minutes by Thomas Müller in management, from a corner by Toni Kroos free-standing on the six-yard box the ball by volley shot into the goal. Brazil then intensified its offensive efforts. The Seleção midfielders increasingly intervened in the attacking actions, but all of them remained ineffective due to bad passes and hasty deals. In the 23rd minute, the 0: 2 fell by Miroslav Klose , who had failed to goalkeeper Júlio César after a play over Kroos and Müller in the penalty area, but was then able to use the rebound.

In the following six minutes, the German team scored three more goals: First, Toni Kroos hit in the 24th minute after a cross from team captain Philipp Lahm , which Müller missed, with a direct tap with the left outer instep from the left edge of the penalty area. Kroos scored his second goal two minutes later and just 20 seconds after the restart after a one- two with Sami Khedira at the penalty spot . Then Khedira increased in the 29th minute in cooperation with Mesut Özil with a leg shot against Maicon at halftime score of 0: 5. Several hundred of the Brazilian spectators had already left the stadium by this time.

After the break, Brazil created good chances through Oscar in the 52nd minute and Paulinho , who was substituted on for the second half, in the 53rd minute, but failed both times against goalkeeper Manuel Neuer . André Schürrle , who came on for Miroslav Klose in the 58th minute, scored 0: 6 and 0: 7. Schürrle scored his first goal eleven minutes after being substituted at the penalty spot after a cross pass in the penalty area by Philipp Lahm. With the second goal ten minutes later, after a cross from Thomas Müller in the running duel against David Luiz , he shot the ball from close range to the lower edge of the crossbar , from which it ricocheted into the goal. The Brazilian spectators had meanwhile chosen the striker Fred as the scapegoat for the looming high defeat, who was whistled and chanted every time they hit the ball until coach Scolari replaced him during the German goal celebration to 6-0. After Mesut Özil had missed the possible 8-0 after a pass from Julian Draxler shortly before , Oscar scored the consolation goal for the hosts in the 90th minute after a long pass from Willian and in a duel with Jérôme Boateng . This was also Brazil's last goal at the World Cup in their own country.

Brazil Germany Lineup
BrazilBrazil
1st semifinals
July 8, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST ) in Belo Horizonte ( Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto )
Result: 1: 7 (0: 5)
Spectators: 58,141
Referee: Marco Rodríguez ( Mexico ) MexicoMexico 
Match report
GermanyGermany
Line up Brazil against Germany
Júlio César - Maicon , David Luiz , Dante , Marcelo - Fernandinho (46th Paulinho ), Luiz Gustavo - Bernard , Oscar , Hulk (46th Ramires ) - Fred (69th Willian ) Coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari(C)Captain of the crew
Manuel Neuer - Philipp Lahm , Jérôme Boateng , Mats Hummels (46th Per Mertesacker ), Benedikt Höwedes - Bastian Schweinsteiger - Sami Khedira (76th Julian Draxler ), Toni Kroos - Thomas Müller , Mesut Özil - Miroslav Klose (58th André Schürrle ) Trainer: Joachim Loew(C)Captain of the crew







goal 1: 7 Oscar (90th)
goal0: 1 Müller (11th)
goal0: 2 Klose (23rd)
goal0: 3 Kroos (24th)
goal0: 4 Kroos (26th)
goal0: 5 Khedira (29th)
goal0: 6 Schürrle (69th)
goal0: 7 Schürrle (79.)
yellow cards Dante (68.)
Player of the Match: Kroos (Germany)

The game in numbers

Miroslav Klose after his 16th World Cup goal

This World Cup game is linked to records in many ways: The final score of 1: 7 is one of the highest results ever achieved in the final round of a World Cup and the highest in a World Cup semi-final. Sweden had won the quarter-finals against Cuba 8-0 in 1938 . In addition, Brazil had won 7-1 in the final round against Sweden in 1950 and Italy in the 1934 round of 16 against the USA 7-1. For Germany it was the second highest World Cup victory after the 8-0 win against Saudi Arabia in the group stage of the World Cup in 2002. The German team celebrated the highest victory of all teams in the World Cup, which they already had in 1966 , 1978 (alongside Argentina ) , 1990 (along with Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union ) and 2002 .

It was Brazil's second defeat in a World Cup semi-final after losing 2-1 to Italy at the 1938 World Cup , and the first home defeat in almost 39 years (63 games) in a competitive game since Peru at the 1938-1-3 Brazilian from the semi-finals of the Copa America 1975 , which was also played in Belo Horizonte, emerged as the winner. In addition to a 6-0 defeat against Uruguay at the Campeonato Sudamericano 1920 , the result is Brazil's highest international defeat . It is also the biggest defeat by a World Cup host in the history of the World Cup.

Miroslav Klose was the first national player to appear in his fourth World Cup semi-final game. With his 16th goal in total, Klose also advanced to become the record scorer at soccer world championships . The 0: 1 by Thomas Müller was the 2000th international goal for the German national team. The four hits in seven minutes from the 23rd to the 29th minute are among the fastest goals for a team at a World Cup. Previously, only Hungary had achieved this in 1982 with a 10-1 victory over El Salvador and Austria in 1954 with a 7-5 victory over Switzerland . Five goals for a team within the first 29 minutes meant a new World Cup record. Yugoslavia had held this with 30 minutes until then, set up in 1974 at 9-0 over Zaire . Toni Kroos' two goals with a gap of 69 seconds were the fastest goal sequence by a single player in the history of football World Cups. The 0: 5 by Sami Khedira was the 221st German World Cup goal, with which Germany replaced the Brazilians as leaders in the list of teams with the most World Cup goals.

André Schürrle became the most successful substitute player of the tournament with his two goals with a total of three goals and replaced Rudi Völler as the most successful substitute for the German team at World Cup tournaments , who had scored a total of two goals after substitutions in 1986.

Despite the score of 1: 7, Brazil were ahead after shots on goal (13:12) and corners (7: 5) and had 52% more possession than the DFB-Elf.

For the Mexican referee Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno , it was the last game of his career in which he had directed seven World Cup games in three tournaments.

Reactions

The television broadcast on ZDF , commented on by Béla Réthy , achieved a new reach record on German television with 32.57 million viewers, which was exceeded just five days later at the World Cup final in the first with 34.65 million viewers. On Facebook, 66 million users interacted a total of over 200 million times, more than ever before at a soccer World Cup. With 35.6 million tweets on the subject, it was the most discussed sporting event on Twitter up to then. With the fifth goal for Germany, almost 10,000 comments per second (exactly 580,166 within a minute) were posted, which was another Twitter record.

After the game, there were occasional looting and brawls in some Brazilian cities. In São Paulo , strangers set 15 buses on fire in a depot.

The performance of the German team was recognized internationally. For example, was in New York the following day the Empire State Building in the colors black, red and gold lights.

The FIFA called on its website the game as "extraordinary [...] breathtaking game." Pelé , three-time world champion with Brazil, said: “I've always said that football is full of surprises. Nobody in the whole world expected this result. ” Rivaldo , Brazilian World Champion of 2002, said:“ The performance of the Seleção is a disappointment for all Brazilians. It's just hard to accept. " Gary Lineker described the encounter as" the most extraordinary, breathtaking and confusing game I have ever seen. " José Mourinho said:" In 50 years the children will [still] know that Brazil is too. " Lost 7-1 to Germany at home. "

Oliver Kahn spoke of a “[…] collective [n] implosion . That was the total failure of an entire team from the first to the last minute. "Brazil had" tactically done everything wrong "and" ran into the German team ". The absence of Neymar and Thiago Silva did not play the decisive role, the Seleção was rather unable to cope with the pressure of expectation and “broke up emotionally”. Alejandro Sabella , coach of the second World Cup finalist Argentina , said before their own semi-final against the Netherlands : “Such a result between two great football nations is absolutely not normal. Incredible. " Philipp Lahm , captain of the German national team, said in an interview after the tournament that he found the game" oppressive "because" nobody wants the opponent to make mistakes that would otherwise not happen at this level. "

The verdict in the Brazilian press on the performance of the Seleção was unanimous. The daily Folha de S. Paulo spoke of a "historical disgrace", O Globo of a "shameful achievement", O Estado de S. Paulo of a "historical humiliation" and O Estado de Minas of the "greatest massacre in [ the] history [of the Seleção] ”. The sports newspaper Lance! drew a comparison to the Maracanaço : "It will be difficult to remember that 2-1 win against Uruguay, given what Germany did in this semifinals." One of the first journalists to use the term Mineiraço for the semifinals was BBC reporter Jason Mohammad in a television interview with former Brazilian international and 2002 world champion Juninho Paulista shortly after the game. The word game Mineiraço was created during the game by the reporter Martín Perazzo of the Argentine radio station Radio Belgrano AM 950 after the German hit to make it 5-0. The then Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in a CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour that she could not have imagined such a devastating defeat even in her worst nightmares. You share the suffering of all followers; However, Brazil will recover from this "extremely painful situation".

In an interview with the TV broadcaster SporTv, the technical director of the Brazilian association CBF Carlos Alberto Parreira compared the 7-1 defeat with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York : “You don't believe it, it is just like it was back then with the twin towers. You see how the first tower is destroyed, then the second. It looked like fiction, it wasn't real. Everything happened very quickly, there was no time to react. "

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took the blame and asked his compatriots for forgiveness for what he said was "the worst defeat [of the Seleção] of all time." The president of the Brazilian football association CBF , José Maria Marin , made him publicly responsible for the result and accused him of serious tactical errors in the line-up.

aftermath

Brazilian striker Fred (right, in a duel with Jérôme Boateng)

Germany won the World Cup final against Argentina on July 13, 2014 with a goal from Mario Götze 1-0 after extra time and thus won its fourth World Cup title. The day before, Brazil also lost the game for third place against the Netherlands 3-0. On July 14th, the Brazilian football association CBF announced the end of the collaboration with national coach Scolari, technical director Carlos Alberto Parreira and the rest of the coaching staff. The striker Fred , who was booed by his own fans in the semi-finals , had already announced his resignation from the Brazilian national team the day before and expressed his fear of becoming "the new Barbosa of Brazil" based on the public stigmatization of the Brazilian goalkeeper after the Maracanaço .

In the meantime, the result “7: 1” ( Portuguese sete - um ) has become a metaphor for a devastating defeat in Brazilian usage. “Goal for Germany” (Portuguese: “gol da Alemanha”) is used as an exclamation after a mishap.

Two days after the game, the result “7: 1” was registered as a word mark at the German Patent and Trademark Office under registration number 302014004791.

The first international match between Brazil and Germany after this semi-final took place on March 27, 2018 in Berlin and ended with a 1-0 win for Brazil.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Brazil - Germany, FIFA World Cup Semifinals, July 8, 2014  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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