I just took a quick look at your profile, and saw you are German. Your team is absolutely amazing. I very much hope they make it into the finals, they deserve it.Thank you. Yes, watching them is fun, especially after so many years of being embarrassed by the sheer incompetence of past teams. It has not become totally clear yet how strong they really are, though: We'll see on Friday, when they play Argentina. But even if they lose that one, this team looks as if it has the potential to mature and become even much stronger.
We've been suffering long enough. At last, I am confident that the bad times are over.
I am also happy to see all of the German patriotism. That is exactly what Germany needs right now.Yes, that is nice to watch, too. You see flags everywhere, and (almost) everybody is happy to cheer the German team on. You see, it wasn't always like that. Back in the 1990s, all the lefties and Green party types used to make a point of always being against the German team. On their demonstrations, they held up signs like “Deutschland verrecke!” (Croak, Germany!), so that didn't come as a big surprise to anyone, of course. The lefties are still there, of course, but they somehow feel that they wouldn't get any sympathies anymore by displaying their hatred for Germany. Perhaps we're finally observing the neurotic relationship of Germans to their own nation becoming normal again.