When in 2004 the national team was desperately looking a for a coach after a disappointing performance at the EuroCup 2004, they finally chose Juergen Klinsmann - now head coach of the U.S. Löw is accustomed to the pressure, though. When they won a third time in 1990 - just after the fall of the Berlin Wall - the win coincided with a time of newfound assertiveness in German leadership. Two decades later in 1974, it rang a bell of optimism, at a time of growth and modernization. When the team of frankly hopeless amateurs won the final that year against the highly professional Hungarians, a long-lost feeling of pride in the wake of a ruined nation, there was a feeling of bootstrapping uplift. The first time the Germans won the World Cup was in 1954 - nine years after World War II. It has a tendency to explain the world - and to come in parallel with important historical moments in Germany. Especially because here, soccer is so much more than a sport. The nation is increasingly disgruntled about shouldering the costs of European unification, bailing out poor countries in the south and east of the continent. And Germany could do with a bit of uplifting at the moment. Soccer has the ability to personify - and uplift - a nation. It has a tendency to explain the world - and run parallel with historic moments in Germany.Īnd not just because the German people have a hunger to win.
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