Germany has just won against Ecuador (come on, Ecuador...) but I can hear from this internet point all these cars travelling and making noise as if all the girls of Berlin got married, all at the same time this afternoon...
In these last days the Argentinian players and some people from the staff complained of the German weather during this World Championship: too hot, they say...(maybe all the players of Argentina come from Patagonia this time...but I doubt about it)...Brasil turned to play a very European and unjoyful soccer, while Germany, very often considered a team who defends most of the time, showed an offensive attitude (not a lot of techinque but a will to play this way)...just few examples to say that this WM, if ever has it some positive effects, made some people think about the people of some other countries under a different view...
I was talking (in German, darling...)with a man yesterday about this kind of clichés and prejudices that surrounds and fills so many conversations between foreign people: somebody over here was surprised that many Turks are actually cheering up for Germany everythime the team plays...this man rightly stated that it is more a question of integration of these people in this country...at a very superficial level, for sure, but still it is something...and this is the point...
The thing is how much of this positive input will last longer than July, the 9th...probably not that much...the surrounding environment of this Championship could be easily described with three words: beer, money and sex for money...which taken all together, with football, do not give so much hope for a positive development...I guess...
This crazy hot month in here should be forgotten for its soccerish feature and remembered for the possibilities it gave to people to be more curious about what surrounds them...a sort of starting point to be suddenly forgotten, then...
But it won´t be like that...
There is nothing wrong when every kid wants to play soccer, obviously, but it is kind of sad to see that so many of these kids just want to do that...
In my new school there is a guy from Iceland who is actually able to talk and to think only about soccer and soccer players....he is like some other thousands people I saw in these days...
When a player like Ballack - a sort of new Odino for German people but a very depressing football player - gets 178000 € a week, there is definitely something wrong...and since this is not the first World Championships, things are not gonna change for the best...they will talk about his money and his new girlfriend afterwards for sure...and we will go back to the usual superficial conversation that we daily experience...
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