King for a lifetime, fool for a... lifetime...

I'm a huge world soccer nut, so you can imagine my shock and glee when I saw one of the final scores from yesterday's international series of friendly (exhibition) matches: Romania 5 Germany 1. WHA??? That's incredible. The World Cup finalists get embarrassed by a team that failed to qualify for Euro 2004 and who was missing their best player, striker Adrian Mutu. Amazing. The Germans will point to not having their three best defenders on the pitch, but this isn't like when England hammered the Germans 5-1 back in '01. That English team fielded the best side possible b/c it was a World Cup qualifier. The team Romania put out yesterday is a far cry from that. Looks like Germany has a lot of fine-tuning to do before they kick off Euro 2004 against teams better than Romania in the forms of Holland and the Czech Republic.