for these and other takeaways, we're joined by tommy smyth of espn, who called the games on radio andt futterman of the wall street journal. he's still in brazil. we welcome you both to the "newshour". so let's talk first about germany's win yesterday. matt futterman, how big an accomplishment for them? >> this is a huge accomplishment for them. it's something they have been working on for about a decade, now, since the current coach and the former coach really decided to remake germany from a very sort of tactical, sort of laboring, defensive-minded team into this attacking machine that is just absolutely relentless, has some of the greatest athletes in the world playing for it. they have been close in the last few big tournaments and finally got where they wanted to be last night. >> woodruff: tommy smyth, what do you think put germany over the top and did the other teams even come close? >> no, the other teams didn't come close. brazil got the loud knocked out of them by germany, 7-1, and they were the host nation. they were the team who just said let's just give them the cup, we d

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