Germany debates features of singing anthem
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July 3, 2012, Tuesday
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GERMANS are debating whether their national team's apparent lack of passion about singing the national anthem had anything to do with its loss to Italy at the European Championship.
Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath wrote in a weekend newspaper column that "those who saw how fervently the Italians sang, even screamed, their anthem could sense the will with which they would approach the following 95 minutes.
"I missed this audible commitment, this readiness to want to give all, in the German team," he wrote in the daily Hamburger Abendblatt.
The mass-circulation Bild daily yesterday asked in a back-page headline: "Are we patriotic enough?"
"It is downright shameful that not all our players sing along with our anthem," conservative lawmaker Hans-Peter Uhl was quoted as saying.
Germany great Franz Beckenbauer added: "Ardor must begin before kickoff - and singing loudly together helps with that."
Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath wrote in a weekend newspaper column that "those who saw how fervently the Italians sang, even screamed, their anthem could sense the will with which they would approach the following 95 minutes.
"I missed this audible commitment, this readiness to want to give all, in the German team," he wrote in the daily Hamburger Abendblatt.
The mass-circulation Bild daily yesterday asked in a back-page headline: "Are we patriotic enough?"
"It is downright shameful that not all our players sing along with our anthem," conservative lawmaker Hans-Peter Uhl was quoted as saying.
Germany great Franz Beckenbauer added: "Ardor must begin before kickoff - and singing loudly together helps with that."
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