Dear Pedro Lenz, we have the same harvest. I have also been a fan of football since childhood – from another club, but we meet with the national team. At the World Championships when I was in school, I exchanged pictures of Panini on the playground (two Germans for one Johan Cruyff!), later I kept two matching country beers cold for each match to sip while watching TV. broadcast.
And this World Cup: Two found each other! A homophobic country and sports without a coming out, a misogynistic society and a purely male team, a corrupt regime and a corrupt organization. The infantile boss stunned with a strange speech, forbidding any manifestations of tolerance and beer! And local spectators run after the first defeat of their team. Then a real fan really stays with the team – we know this from our clubs!
“Why I watch no matter what,” you wrote on this page last week. I was indecisive but never wanted to watch the match this week (I am writing this text while playing against Switzerland). And I don’t have withdrawal symptoms from either the ball or the beer. Of course, as an informed person, I take note of the results, but I prefer to listen to your new double CD “There is no beer in Qatar”, which you recently recorded with Schwalbenkönigen.
Because one thing is clear: now Qatar is raging more than the Qatari fever – you will not warm up for this World Cup.