This was ugly and just tacky — like, on an American-politics level tacky. Any head of state cheering on like that in jingoistic ecstasy is tacky (not to mention a German Chancellor and a game played in Poland…and in Gdansk!). Acting like that in a photo that for sure would go public at a match between Greece and Germany, given the current state of the relationship and its gross power inequality is just grotesque and the most provocative kind of public humiliation.
Some interesting commentary around about how East Germans –or semi-East Germans like Frau Merkel, with her winning elegance and a family background that combines a Lutheran upbringing and pastor father with a comfy, East German, party apparatchik lifestyle — never underwent the genuinely noble soul-searching that West Germans did after the war…
But I just find soccer culture to be grotesque all around. I always can’t wait till these “Cup” games are over.
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