Euro 2008 In Pictures: Deutschland!
By Tom Dunmore • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Euro 2008 • 5 responsesSomehow, they did it. Given many people around the world didn’t get to see it, it seems only fitting to feature the Germans watching from Germany on television — apparently, their feed didn’t get busted, and they seem pretty happy they won. Again.
Cologne:
Hamburg:
Bavaria:
Munich:
Kiel:
Koln:
And in Berlin:
Photo credits: fanfotbal, tobi, artour_a, ichinho, arne.list, snooker68, kamikazey on Flickr.
Tom Dunmore is the editor of Pitch Invasion.
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Football becomes more popular how we can see. I´m german and I have to say: It´s overall a big Party.
So Jungs jetzt geht es gegen Spanien, werden wir Europameister??????
I’ll be honest, I never had the Germans down as car horn honking, climbing on buses of kind of people, y’know. Thought they were too northern european for that kind of thing.
It´s a big party, and all people are friendly. Thats is very important.
As someone who was living in Frankfurt in 2002, it has been very interesting to see how this phenomenon has developed. At the beginning of that World Cup, there was general consternation among the native population when the Turks, Croats and Italians began the tradition of driving around the inner ring road honking horns and waving flags.
That sense of distaste began to weaken as Germany advanced in the tournament, and by the time of the quarters, one started to see Germans aping their non-native neighbours (though with less enthusiasm). Once they realised how much fun they were having, they found it hard to stop, and we had the rather surreal experience of dozens of cars driving around to “celebrate” their loss in the final (or in the wonderful German term for the runners-up: “Vizeweltmeister”).
Thus were planted the seeds of popular phenomenon that was WC 2006.