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My Germany: “A perfectly balanced tank car”
With this title, the national football team in China, is revered: precise, stable, persistent, tireless, and almost invincible. Loud attributes, which are also shared by our columnist Zhang Danhong fully.
If you want to enjoy in the next few days after work, at home or at the Public Viewing of the European championship of football, please insert a minute’s silence for the millions of football fans in China. To miss a game of your favorite team, set the alarm clock part, to three o’clock at night. After that, you go either left-to sleep, to work, or buy on the Internet sick notes – the longer the duration of the “illness”, the more expensive the document. The hard-nosed their rhythm completely and live during the Euro according to Central European time.
Quite a lot of Chinese press, Müller, Neuer & co., the thumb. The greatest popularity in the middle Kingdom is but still Bastian Schweinsteiger. Loving the Chinese Xiao zhu (little pig) to call him. Also in the previous European championship, he has not disappointed with his short but very effective appearance, the Fans in the far East.
Full of precision and voltage
“What impresses you at the German football?”, I ask my Followers in the Chinese network Weibo. “The whole team is like a tank car, the individual parts are matched to each other perfectly,” writes one. “The German football is full of precision and tension. The boys are playing with a high Tempo and with a physical effort, technically savvy, strategically clever, and all that for 90 minutes,” says another. “Because the players look so cool,” is the answer of female Fans. A Chinese woman living in Germany idolized for years, Jogi Löw, and will just handle of your German friend with the Pants-Video annoyed. In my view, the best response was: “you Need a justification to love German football?”
DW-editor Zhang Danhong
My Affection for the German team goes back to the world Cup of 1982. I learned at that time, English at a boarding school. To cheer with the German Team, and belonged somehow to the teaching of German. Every lunchtime we gathered eight girls from the English class of us in front of a small Radio and listened to banned from the world Cup summary. As we had cheered when Germany in the semi-final to France by a penalty shoot-out defeated! The heroes were called at that time Lu mei ni ge (Rummenigge) and Li te ba er si ji (Littbarski). The Italians then we have hated, because you let the German title of dream pop. Since then I have not missed a world Cup and European championship game with German participation.
A weakness for Poldi
Similarly, all Chinese, learn German, live in Germany or for a German company in China. But that is not the prerequisite for the relationship with the German football. So I met four years ago in the deep South of China, to a simple peasant. “Where do you come from?”, he asked. “From Germany,” said my younger daughter. “What city?”, he wanted to know. “Ke long” (Köln in Chinese), the Small. I just thought that the answer is likely to overwhelm its German knowledge. He beamed and called out loudly: “Ah, Lukas Podolski.”
A football-mad Chinese have, so far, no luck with your team
You might ask, why is this crazy Chinese reserve their big football emotions for their own team? It’s easy to explain: Because the Chinese national team grotto plays bad. So far she has managed only a single Time for the world Cup to fail already in the first round terrific. Among 1.4 billion Chinese, no elf, man, and can reasonable kick! This is not the greatest tragedy of this ambitious and football fond people?
Ambitious President
This is not to last forever, decided by the state President and football fan Xi Jinping. To his China dream is not only participation in a world Cup, but also the orientation of the tournament. And at one point, the world champion title. You want to shorten in a similar procedure as with the technology: By the purchase the way up to the top. According to the Motto: If we have already acquired Putzmeister and Kuka are why we can buy great players like Anthony Modeste?
The rumor that the striker of FC Cologne wanted to go to China, has upset the Fans. My good friend Bernd storm – an unwavering FC-Fan – see the differentiated. He understands that, if someone for three times the salary goes to the club. He may tolerate, however, “if one vows with great Loyalty, with a lot of euphoria and Pathos proclaimed how comfortable you will feel, and then a few weeks later changes, if an offer is there.”
Meanwhile, the Frenchman will want to stay in Cologne again – after a hefty increase in salary, of course. But who says that the Chinese are not reloading again?
In any case, you can already imagine how it would be like if China should host a world Cup Public Viewing before lunch? Sick leave buy on Amazon? Or, better, directly to fly to China?
Zhang Danhong was born in Beijing and lives since over 20 years in Germany.
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