"Since the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the media perception of German football and Germany in general has dramatically changed, " added Pfeiffer, who has lived in England since 1986.
George Patton to coach Army football teams in occupied Germany, Hollis said.
The football World Cup, hosted by Germany in the summer of 2006, seven months after she took office, bathed the country and the chancellor in laid-back patriotism.
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England's poor showing in South Africa, culminating in a 4-1 defeat by Germany in the last 16, angered many fans and prompted the Football Association to cut ticket prices for Wednesday's match in an attempt to win back disgruntled spectators.
He compared the influx of foreign owners into English football with the situation in other European leagues like Spain and Germany, where fans are often the sole or majority owners of clubs.
It would perhaps be more appropriate if Germany's entire football establishment were to indulge in some self-criticism.
Chief among them were Sir Clive Woodward, who went on to guide England to success at the rugby union World Cup in 2003, and, ironically, the Germany Football Association.
The Wolves carried on from where they left off last season with some enterprising football to suggest they could again be the team to beat in Germany this season.
It might rouse sleeping nationalist dogs especially with Germany and Greece about to meet in the Euro 2012 football championships.
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In the former East Germany, far from the country's football powerbase, one lowly team's fortunes are being transformed by Austrian soft drink company Red Bull's takeover.
Johan Cruyff's brilliant Dutch side took the tournament by storm with their revolutionary "total football" but it was hosts West Germany who came out on top 2-1 in the final.
The story then was bodybuilding in California, American football's premium on size and, as we now know, East Germany's producing at its height perhaps 30, 000 athletes on steroids and winning Olympic medals per hit 600 times as often as Americans.
Tragically for Hungarian football, that defeat was in the 1954 World Cup final, where they lost 3-2 to a West Germany team they had previously beaten 8-3 in the group stages.
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