With World Cup dream over, Germany looks ahead
Associated Press, Berlin | Thu, 07/08/2010 4:22 PM
Spain burst Germany's World Cup bubble, but the nation is
already looking ahead to the next tournament in 2014.
After Joachim Loew's young German team lost the semifinal
1-0, the Berliner Kurier tabloid on Thursday lamented: "The football god
only understood Spanish."
The mass-circulation Bild plastered its front page with a
picture of devastated midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and the words:
"The dream is over!"
But it added: "Chin up, boys! So we'll take the cup in
four years."
The daily Die Welt also looked ahead to Germany's fourth
title, predicting on its front page: "54, 74, 90 - 2014 ..."
Media Control, which measures television ratings, said
German viewer figures for the match Wednesday averaged 31.1 million - a record
for a World Cup game. Germany's population is 82 million.
