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Otte, Romanus
stellv. Chefredakteur von Welt Online
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Our football identity
The Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has won the UEFA Cup in Istanbul against the German team Werder Bremen. Football continues to engender a feeling of identity despite its having become a global phenomenon, writes the conservative paper Die Welt: "All of the goals were scored by players from Brazil. Five Brazilians were playing for Donetsk, as well as a Pole, a Croatian and a Romanian. And a Peruvian, an Austrian, a Swede, a Greek and a Finn were also playing for Werder. ... Why do we get so fired up over a football team which hasn't had any players from Bremen for years, which is composed of legionnaires? Why has globalised football not lost any of its appeal? Why do the clubs still have such an enormous power of identification? Perhaps because football has so much to do with home? Because we too are legionnaires?"
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Song Contest teaches enthusiasm for Europe
While Europe's politicians do nothing to stir our hearts in the run-up to the European elections, the Eurovision Song Contest is bringing Europe - and Europeans - together, Romanus Otte writes in the daily Die Welt: "For me all the advertisements and posters for the European election are nothing but barefaced cheek. They say almost nothing about Europe, don't make any proposals for it, and above all elicit zero enthusiasm for Europe. ... Luckily some small consolation is offered by Eurovision. There are plenty of good reasons to turn up one's nose at the Song Contest. But once more Saturday's Grand Prix was also a deeply moving European celebration. The sea of flags waved by the boisterous crowd that had come together from the four corners of Europe reminded one of the Last Night of the Proms in London. There were singers from states I would have left out altogether if I'd been asked to name the countries of Europe. And they were a great reminder of how big Europe is, how peaceful, and how novel such a situation is at all."
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