During the halftime break of the World Cup semi-final, the players of the German national football team consulted not about new tactics or thoughts on how to continue playing against the host Brazil, but about one thing - how to make the Brazilian defeat at least decent.
The Brazilian national football team experienced something on Tuesday that it had never experienced before - neither 30 nor 50 years ago. In the World Cup, the German footballers scored seven goals against the Brazilians in the semi-finals and won 7:1.
This is the biggest victory of all time in World Cup semi-finals. In addition, the Brazilians had never lost so shamefully before.
Already after the first 30 minutes of the game, the Germans were leading 5:0, and the Rio de Janeiro stadium wept and sent curses to its own team players.
"We talked about showing respect to our opponents. We agreed to play our football for the full 90 minutes, but we wouldn't try to humiliate the Brazilian team," - said the team defender Mats Hummels about the conversation during the break in the German national football team's locker room.
He explained how the team quickly gained such a huge advantage. "Everything happened after the second goal - the Brazilians unexpectedly dropped their hands, stopped and only recovered after the fifth goal. It's not often that you can take advantage of such an opportunity when a team is in disarray, not knowing what to do on the field - we just enjoyed the game.
During the break, we talked about not turning the game into a farce, and turning the Brazilians into clowns," - revealed M. Hummels the details of the team conversation in the dressing room.
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