I looked up this Ballack/Lalas thing on twitter and saw way less tweets than I thought I'd see. Either no one cares, or everyone's heard it before.
More than likely people were like:
Who is this nikka? A German superstar? Well who gives a fukk about what you think, foreigner
Lalas got way more stick when he said USA weren't getting out of the group.
And anyone who says Lalas should shut up because Ballack was more accomplished.. don't even know what to say to that, how stupid can you be really. But you see, the incredible contrast between the two makes it entertaining. And this isn't ESPN talking head nonsense for the most part like two guys talking about Tom Brady in June (which is a real thing on ESPN????), two distinct philosophies and background