Finally stop painting black! Toni Kroos is back and the national team is shining brightly again. 2-0 with the French, the first goal comes after just eight seconds. And as is the case with the national team, where so many fundamental things have to be interpreted into every game that the fundamental debates last until the next international match window, everything is fundamentally different now.
The bad guys in the squad have been sorted out, the new ones aren’t all allowed to play much, but at least they all put in a good mood. Some fans think that the start of the European Championship year also needs a suitable soundtrack.
Nuclear phase-out again?
Now that the national team is scoring enough goals again to win games, a new goal melody should boom out of the stadium speakers. Namely “Major Tom” by Peter Schilling. This is what an online petition is calling for, which more than 30,000 people had already signed on Monday. Completely detached, these fans. What’s going on so far? Of course “Kernkraft 400”, a techno hit from the nineties with a lyric-free melody to sing along to.
So is there a nuclear phase-out again? Left-green instead of black-red-gold? Or at least instead of “schwaaaaarz and weeeeiß” as Oliver Pocher was allowed to shout goal after goal through the loudspeakers until recently. But if the jersey is suddenly pink, that would probably only be the logical consequence.
Especially since the idea comes from the funny commercials for the cool new DFB jersey. The song is playing in the background and fits wonderfully “with a feeling of new beginnings,” as the applicants write. Advertising that works.
So will there soon be a new German wave for the new German football team? And is the “local patriotism” that was recently missing from the supplier now at least in music?
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The association is still hesitant. In the game against the Netherlands on Tuesday (8:45 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the national team and on RTL), he announced on Monday that “Kernkraft 400” would continue if the national team scored a goal. After all, what do you do without nuclear energy when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine? The DFB is afraid of the dark doldrums. Still.
