A groggy set of German football fans hit the newsstands early Friday morning to pick up their papers and swap a few views on their their national team’s second consecutive World Cup group stage elimination. In our third (and final) “Einzelkritik” (“individual player review”) pieces, Bulinews’ Peter Vice supplies translations on player critiques appearing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Tobias Rabl), the Süddeutsche Zeitung (IChristof Kneer/Philipp Selldorf), and Der Spiegel (Jan Göbel). Having made the sacred schlep to the newsstands himself, there’s some thoughts on the common threads among both punditry and public with respect to the future state of the team. Words such as “disaster” and “debacle” appear more in print than on the street. There is nevertheless agreement that some things must be changed.
