Petrina

Hi Dominic,

I completely understand where you are coming from interms of the "need" to get into football when the EuroCup is on. I felt this same football fever when I was working in Berlin during the last FIFA cup and Germany was in the running to make it to the finals. Even though I had always felt like an outsider to the German culture, because I had very limited language use and I also wasn't very "German" in terms of my attitude - when FIFA came to town, as long as you were dressed in the team colours and tooting a vuvuzela you were part of the game, part of the team and part of the football culture! It was great and I was so glad to have been a part of it while I was there. It was a culturally-defining moment for Germans as well, because one of my colleagues said that it was after a long time that Germans had stood up with pride and sang along to their national anthem.