Deutsche Welle have always given good coverage of major
sporting events and for this year’s world cup they have their own competition (KickOff Tip) too, where you have to predict the scores of each game. It should be fun
to compare with others’ predictions, presumably Deutsche Welle radio aficionados
as much as football fans, around the globe.
Of course the station, along with Deutschlandfunk, also pushed the
boat out in 1972, 1974 and 2006 when Munich, West Germany and Germany respectively
hosted summer Olympics and two World Cups. (The West Germany v East Germany World Cup match, 40 summers ago in Frankfurt on 22 June 1974, was, for me, the epitome of any World Cup encounter I have seen, with its political and poignant overtones -forget the oft-quoted USA v Iran game in France 1998- the both Germanies clash was the ultimate political football game in my book).
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