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By: Angela | April 2nd, 2009With all the national team play this week, it’s left some time to reflect on the upcoming CL against Barca, but then all of that got overshadowed as I watched some of my boys take on the National game. And also checked in others that I don’t generally follow too closely. Mark van Bommel headed off with Oranje and played brilliantly while watching his team walk away with a 4-0 win. Everyone had a lot of nice things to say about the Bayern Skipper and surprisingly it wasn’t just me this time. 
The Red Bulls didn’t fair so well and I was disappointed to not see any sign of Daniel van Buyten. Until I learned via Dutch press (and a very good Dutch friend that translated for me) that Daniel is currently excused from National team duties because his father is very ill. This has led to him being home in Belgium with his family. We all wish his father a speedy recovery so that he can cheer on his son in no time flat.
And then you have the cheeky little Lukas Podolski who evidently isn’t very pleased with his Captain; Michael Ballack. To prove his point he pimped slapped the Captain who had to take a moment before Per Mertesacker and little Philipp Lahm jumped in. Podolski definitely looked ready to throw down with Ballack. The way Ballack has acted like a spoiled little baby as of late, I wasn’t really all that surprised by someone else being mad at him. Just surprised that the usually amicable Podolski was the one to pimp slap the Captain. At any rate, my money would’ve been on Podolski in this row. I’m curious what will come out of this fight between Ballack and Podolski if anything. Ballack doesn’t seem to get punished for much of anything and Podolski seemed to be reacting so would there be punishment there? We shall see won’t we? Maybe they should go to counseling.
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I’m not going to side with either Podolski or Ballack here. Both have alienated a section of players, coaches and fans before, so their boorishness cancels out.
Who knows what was said, but from what I heard, it was something tactical. Everyone knows Poldi is as good at tracking back as a three year-old is with coloring between the lines, maybe it could be related to that. Thankfully it didn’t reach Bowyer/Dyer proportions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtDA9J1o5Co .
It is also interesting to note that Mertesacker shoved Poldi away, although I don’t know if that was a reaction to the row or just in the moment.
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A Kap: I noticed Per shoving Poldi away too. Though, I think it was more because if you watch Poldi’s body language, he was haunched up and ready to go. Ballack wasn’t really. I’m not sure Per just wasn’t trying to save them from getting into a worse situation than they already did.
Personally – I don’t care at all for Ballack anymore. His behavior with team members and coaches alike has been the equivalent of a spoiled little queen who isn’t getting her way… but that’s just my opinion.
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