It's OK to Root for Germany

[soccergirl63]

Wall Street Journal journalist's Matthew Futterman, "a Jewish-American of a certain age", beautifully written article about his weird feelings rooting for Germany.
Article by Matthew Futterman

Source: Wall Street Journal "It's OK to Root for Germany"A version of this article appeared June 25, 2012, on page B8 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street

Comments

[icanseenow]

Good article, but I was a bit miffed he said "Özil is Turkish", etc. Maybe that's just me, though.

[icanseenow]

You nailed it down, yes.

[annablume80]

Me too. I also thought is was a bit strange that he said Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian; Gomez, who is of Spanish descent, when Mario's "situation" is actually the "same" as Jerome's: they both have German mothers (as does Sami, of course).

[icanseenow]

Yes, this is it. Because he mixed it all up, that was so weird for me.