Welcome back to the Summer of Soccer! We've had a lovely two-day break to recover from the opening stages of the Euros and the Copa America, but now we — and both tournaments — are back in a big way. Did you get some rest on those off days? Did you take in other sporting events like the Tour de France and Wimbledon? Or did you, like us, spend it watching Mert Gunok's last-minute save against Austria on an endless loop? WHAT A SAVE!!!!!!!!! Mert Günok comes up HUGE!!!!! pic.twitter.
com/zNxmhZzNBn Yeah, we can't blame you. That's one impressive parry. We've got three games coming up on Friday July 5: two heavy-hitting European matches that hearken back to tournaments of old, and one Copa America battle between two of the best young teams in the Americas.
We're usually happy to tell you which games will provide more entertainment than the others on a given matchday, but honestly, all three of these are going to be bangers. Cancel your plans and watch them all. Spain vs.
Germany, 12 p.m. ET.
Cast your mind back to July of 2010: Katy Perry's "California Gurls" was blasting out of everyone's stereo, that one Icelandic volcano had finally stopped erupting, and Spain was playing Germany in the semifinals of the South Africa World Cup. Spain won that match 1-0 thanks to a Carlos Puyol header, and Germany took the loss hard ..
. so hard, in fact, that when it came back to the World Cup four years later, it won the whole thing in a typically merciless fashion. Today, Spain and Germ.
