Hello Ernesto,
thank you for your nice words on the German team.
It was the youngest German team in the history of the World Cup.
At the end of the game against Italy, this young team lacks the experience and we had to play without the German "Canavaro ore Zidane", Thoersten Frings. He was the actual captain and that he was banned drops our chance to 50%.
But Itlay won and this is alright!
My warm congratulation to my Italian friends!
I think Germany had organised a beautiful Worls Cup.
Teh German people not only support the German team. Nearly every German had "adopted" an underdog. I supported Trinidad & Tobago and Mexico, my sister Australia, my wife Equador and so on and on...
I think we gave the world of football 4 weeks a warm welcome. Additional 16 years after the re-unifiation we found us as one nation in a friendly, tolerant and open minded way.
If you read the newespaper, the World Cup had chiped away a lot of the old anti-German prejustice. This ist for me the real winner of the game.
Best regards from a very happy Germany
Bruno