World Cup 2010 - Weltmeisterschaft 2010

Having observed the utter lack of people covering the World Cup in South Africa I have decided to fill the gap and spend even more time on following football than I usually would.

I've included "Politics" in the blog's name mainly to fill less guilty about starting one when I should probably do not much else but finish my dissertation. Also, I may actually write about politics once in a while, even though the political stuff going on right now is clearly of lesser significance when compared to the tournament. One thing I'm definitely not going to do is to write about the politics of football as they're boring as hell.

As a taste of things to come, here's my first memory of football in general:

I was seven years old and I remember some commercials on TV before the '86 World Cup in Mexico, however, I can't recall seeing any of the games before Germany's quarterfinal match against hosts Mexico. Everybody seems to agree that it was a terribly dull affair, yet, the Germans - as always - won on penalties and I would then watch their next two games as well. Later that summer, my dad told me that there were also teams other than "Germany" playing football and I started watching the Bundesliga, becoming a Frankfurt supporter soon thereafter.