Monday, August 2, 2010

Germany Pips Nigeria to Win FIFA Women's U-20 World Cup


The goal scoring insight, magnificence, and flair of Alexandre Popp assisted push Germany to its second U-20 World Cup victory in six years in Bielefeld on Sunday, August 1, 2010. The Germans beat the Falconets of Nigeria 2-0 in the final match played before a sold-out crowd.

Alexandre Popp Does It Again

Popp, who scored 10 of the 20 goals Germany scored in the opposition, place her country on the winning trail as early as the 7th minute. Germany’s full back, Bianca Schmidt sent a long ball in Popp’s course. The lanky and bubbly forward, with an admirable moniker, Princess of the Penalty Box, leaped and headed the ball to Dzsenifer Maroszan, who with nibble foot work, placed the ball in the path of the advancing Popp.

The Princess cleverly protected the ball from the Falcon’s central defender, Joy Jegede, earlier than slotting it past a bewildered Alaba Jonathan in the goal post for Nigeria. On or after then on, the game was an inflexible encounter, which kept the ball oscillating from one end of the aesthetic pitch to another. The match stayed that way until the end of the first stanza.

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