German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) is all the rage: Football is no longer just a nice, involving fighting, but ultimately unimportant game, but highly political state business: Friedrich turned demonstratively protectively national player Mesut Ozil, who was vulnerable to attack on the Internet unprotected , He condemned the racist Internet propaganda against the national team as "disgusting" and called for solidarity with all our players.
Since the German "summer fairy tale" 2006 in Germany a form of patriotism approved and publicly funded up to the Debilitätsgrenze: the German football nationalism. The emotional appeal is made with all kinds of black, red and yellow jester costumes, plastic-frills and plenty of alcohol feeding, public Glotzing does the rest. (more ...)