Football and the planet Earth

"At last, the citizens of the world have drawn closer – after millions of bitter years ! Gabor Fabricius enthuses about the World Cup and the world, that for a whole month cheered and laughed and cried together – in front of the TV and on Germany's streets. "No one knows how many people all over the world watched the games at the same time, but one thing's for sure: the World Cup is absolutely typical of our planet. I can't imagine this kind of euphoria on any other planet. Welcome to Planet Earth !... I switch on the television and have the unmistakable feeling that we all live in one world. That's the whole point of television in the 21st century: you get a true sense of living on this planet – but not because CNN's weather report shows the curvature of the earth's surface, but because I can watch the colourful multitude of partying people and see how seriously the big globe takes the game with the little globe."

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