They stole the national team, the national eleven, the Nationalelf from the Germans. The last bastion of German national pride. We do not indulge ourselves in such a revelation. It is worth reading the comments on social media, the Germans themselves feel this way.
Germany is one of the most successful nations in football history. Volt. Brazil leads the ranking with five World Cup titles, but Germany and Italy follow with four each. In the case of the Germans, none of the national teams made it to the finals more than eight times, and it is also unique that they always made it to at least the top eight at the World Cup.
With the exception of the World Cup in Russia four years ago and the current World Cup in Qatar, when they did not even survive the group stage.
So we can't talk about a one-time derailment. Of course, there will be long analyzes full of data about how, just like four years ago, the German national team went to the World Cup well prepared and highly motivated, only to become the victim of blind chance. No, it's more than that. Something is fermenting and even rotting in the depths. And not just in a professional sense, as the national team captain talked about in the heat of elimination. Hansi Flick said that a complete reform of German football is inevitable. During this time, experts usually mean the training of youth, the selection, the championship system, but we cannot be completely sure that this is all Flick has in mind.
He's probably thinking about something else, but he just doesn't dare to say it.
Almost all national symbols were eradicated from the FRG, which was born after the Second World War, all institutions became federal, the "Bundes", but the national football team remained national. National Elf. It really has everything in it. And the national eleven knew what to do. We Hungarians have also experienced it. The winning team in 1954 gave the Germans back their national pride. At least secretly. It is believed that this is why Sepp Herberger's winning team is the most popular German national team in Germany. I would argue with that. But not in defense of the team that won in 1974, nor in 1990, nor in 2014, but only in 2006. Sixteen years ago, a national renaissance was revived in Germany.
People wore national-colored badges, put flags on their cars, at each match of the German national team millions of people gathered on Unter den Linden in Berlin, but also in small villages with thousands of souls - I visited such places at the time - they cheered together on a projector. After the World Cup, Franz Beckenbauer was able to say with impunity that he experienced how wonderful his country is by going to the matches, only there is a small problem with the Asians...
The Germans, or at least their leading politicians, were probably themselves frightened by the rising national sentiment. They made sure to suffocate him quickly.
They put the colors of the rainbow on their flag. And for some reason the Germans usually obey the word of command. It was leaked, for example, that the players of the German team are far from being on the same page when it comes to advertising the rainbow, but they agreed to act together for the sake of unity.
The rainbow is only apparently multi-colored, in fact it blends everything in and of course excludes everything else. The German national football team, painted in rainbow colors, is no longer the nation's team, but a degraded marketing product of the federal state, the propaganda of an aggressive ideology. Germany sacrificed the Nationalelf for the sake of a dwarf minority. And he gets nothing for it. Only mockery, disillusionment, even contempt.
Miklós Novák / Hungarian Nation
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