World Cup victory confirms Germany supremacy on almost every measureAfter so many years of commanding respect the nation should rejoice that its football is finally recognised as beautiful
Chancellor Angela Merkel with the Germany team after their victory over Argentina in the World Cup Final. Photograph: Guido Bergmann/Handout/EPA
Louise Taylor
Sunday 13 July 2014
It cannot surely be long before Angela Merkel is pictured placing a consolatory arm around David Cameron, after being overheard lecturing Vladimir Putin on the trouble with 4-4-2, and brochures extolling Germany will become popular in high-street travel agencies as the world wakes up to a much-underrated destination. Who needs Barcelona when you’ve got Bavaria?
In boardrooms around the globe, football club owners will be instructing their chief executives to “get me a Germanâ€. Across assorted time zones it is no longer enough for a goalkeeper to have “safe handsâ€. Thanks to Manuel Neuer the era of “sweeper-keepersâ€, boasting strong lines in fancy footwork, is upon us.
With the death of tiki-taka now rubber-stamped, aspiring football coaches will eschew study trips to Spain, instead flocking to a rather large patch of Europe stretching from the Baltic to the Alps.
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