In my Coursework, which is about me as a football fan & as a part of a group of a fan of the German football national team. I want you to show how incredibly amazing it can be, when x-millions of people, in this case fans, forget their environment, their anger, their fears etc. for 90 minutes. In 2006 was the football world cup in Germany and I will use this as the example in my work. I also want to talk about how this world cup helped Germany to present themselves as the complete differences of Nazis. Some people in various countries stillthink, that the German people still idolize Adolf Hittler.

1. Introduction - History:

Since the 23.August.1991 Germany has got the national anthem we are singing today. We wanted to leave the horrible past behind us and our youth, because the old national anthem was used during the first and second world war when Hitler was our leader. Today we are just singing the third stampa of the old national anthem.

70.000 people singing the German national anthem before the football game against Poland during the world cup 2006. You can really feel, that the Germans are proud to be, what they are in this moment - a fan of the German national team:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJIZBw6ZOY&feature=related

Even if our today's Policy is Democracy, the complete distinction to dictatorship and even if Germany already did and still does a lot for ditching the Nazi-Image, quite a lot non-Germans convict us to be Nationalists.
According to this the motto for the world cup 2006 was: "The world hosted by friends". It should have showed, that Germany already changed. Nearly everyone said, that Germany was a great host for this World cup and not for nothing the president of the FIFA, (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) Sepp Blatter, called the World cup in Germany: "The best World Cup ever."


2. Me, Myself and Football:

My name is Fabian Peter, I am 17 years old, I am living in Berlin and I played football for about 9 years. When I was 5 I went to the kinder garden, just like every child in this age does. Every single day me and my friends played football when we were allowed to go out, even when it rained. When I was 6 I joined a football club and played there for 5 years, but did I really play because I loved the game or did I just play because all of the other children did? At this time I just went in for sports, because I was really bored at home, but I did not realize, that football was my big passion. I realized that when I was 7 and Germany played against Croatia in the Quarter Finals in the World Cup 1998. They lost 3:0 and cried horribly, but I did notknow why. When I think about that today, I know the reason, which is very comprehensible. After that I was nuts about football.

Here I have got some old picture:

1999:

1997:













In 2002 Germany played against Brasil in the Final of this years' World Cup, but unfortunately we lost 2:0. I had one of the best moments in 2001, when I was allowed to meet Marcelinho, who was the star of my hometown club Hertha BSC Berlin.

2001:














3. World Cup 2006 in Germany:

Franz Beckenbauer, one of the best football players in the history of Germany, brought the World Cup 2006 to Germany.