ometimes a goal can lift not just the crowd inside a stadium but an entire nation. It was 18 years ago ago on Sunday that Germany’s left-back Philipp Lahm took a punt from outside the penalty area that pinged off the Costa Rican upright into the back of the net just six minutes into the opening game of the 2006 World Cup, which
“Typically German” used to mean a resilient economic motor chugging away at the core of the European Union. But last year Germany was the only industrial nation to slip into a recession, with two consecutive quarters of negative growth. In March this year, a group of leading German economic thinktanks revised their growth forecast down from 1.2% to near-stagnation, at 0.1% for the year.
After sacking coach Hansi Flick nine months before the start of the tournament and bringing in the young former Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann, thelost two of its first four games. Even in Nouripour’s home town, Frankfurt, where the German football association is headquartered, “the mood among the fans was terrible”.
The heydays of the Angela Merkel era coincides neatly with the German football team’s period of dominance under coach Jogi Löw, who was promoted from assistant to head coach after the home tournament.
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