Bye bye Fifa World Cup

The World Cup soccer is over. Time to pick up on blogging again.
I think the organisation of the tournament was a big success. But that was no surprise. Germans are generally good at that. They even managed to arrange beautiful weather for the whole duration of the tournament!!
And, most importantly, the whole country was in celebration mood for four weeks. This together with the fact that the German national team played very well, made even the Germans loose their minds for a while. Finally, after about sixty years, the emotional barriers were broken, and the Germans dared to show and wave their flags again. Especially with small flags attached to their cars, a considerable percentage of the population showed national pride again. It took a while before I realised that this is a big deal here. In many nations, people wave national flags happily on many occasions. But not in Germany. Because of WWII showing national pride was a sensitive issue.
I am happy to see, that these wounds are healing. The Germans have a right to be proud. It was a good tournament, and even their own national team was finally playing attractive football.

I do admit that I am happy the games are over now. Because it was not easy for a Dutch to live in Germany during the FIFA World Championship. If only our boys had played better ;-)