I've never experienced a "deutscher Niederlage" before. No cars hooted, the streets were full of people heading straight home from the game, people were waving the German flag bravely, the dignity of a good loser. A few lone italian flags, a few people showing the third finger at that jubilant minority, but most took it in good spirit. But the police were out in full force, directing the traffic, stopping scuffles before they could break out. They wouldn't have needed to do that if Germany had won.
How great it would have been, though, if Germany, as host, could have won the game. Now the commentators can no longer say that no german team has lost in Dortmund before. Nor can they continue singing that funny song "wir werden Weltmeister."
Depressive mood again? No mention of the defeat was mentioned in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Headlines were about the constant disputes over health issues, the Bundesnachrichtendienst question, and today is Steuergedenktag, the day when the country's proletariats start to work for their pay, instead of paying it all to tax.
Come on, Deutschland. Surely you can do better than this?!
This is a country in which every little "kaff" (or tiny village) has some technological invention they can be proud of, in which precision is prided on, where the poor wouldn't be left on their own, where the politics can't help stumbling a little in their search for the perfect solution or compromise. Heads up, Germany! C'est la vie!
Sometimes, it is not the attainment of a goal that counts, but the pursuit of it.
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hi tings :) strangely, i've got a very different taste of the defeat. admittedly i was hugely disappointed as were many others, but other than than faz, i think most other papers (bild, spiegel online, express and hopefully other decent ones haha) are carrying headlines of "chins up", "we're proud of you", "we did our best but they were better". so i didn't think for a moment that deutschland was down after this defeat. i'm sure the biggest crowd has yet to turn out, and they will do so for the Spiel um Rang drei. :)
another point - i think scuffles break out all the time, egal wer gewinnt. in köln for example, some germans fought in a pub on a day germany wasn't even playing. in the vorrunde. its jus the effect of too much beer. :P so dont be too disappointed with germany. i dont think they're sore losers at all :)
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