Germany Wins World Cup
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 13th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Germany Wins World Cup
Germany won its fourth World Cup after a tense 1-0 victory over Argentina on Sunday. Mario Gotze’s strike, seven minutes from the end of extra time, ensured Germany ended its 24-year wait for glory at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium. Deadlocked at 0-0 after 90 minutes, it was left to substitute Gotze to provide the game’s defining moment with a touch of magic. The Bayern Munich star took Andre Schurrle’s pass on his chest before displaying exquisite technique to volley the ball past Sergio Romero.
Missile Kills World Cup Viewers at Gaza Cafe
About a dozen local Palestinians gathered Wednesday evening at the Fun Time Beach cafe, a Gaza Strip beachside eatery of plastic chairs, umbrellas, walls of cloth and palm leaves, a container for a kitchen and a small bathroom, to watch the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. What they were not watching for was an Israeli missile, apparently targeting what Israel’s military later described as a single terrorist. The blast destroyed the cafe and killed at least eight people. The cafe was one of more than 750 locations that the Israeli military struck in the first 48 hours of its aerial blitz in Gaza that began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with the stated goal of halting the rocket attacks from Gaza against Israeli towns and cities.