Comments on: German Ambassadors http://germany.worldcupblog.org/friendlies/german-ambassadors.html Germany - World Cup 2010 - South Africa Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: diana http://germany.worldcupblog.org/friendlies/german-ambassadors.html/comment-page-1#comment-107365 diana Fri, 29 May 2009 04:34:27 +0000 http://germany.worldcupblog.org/friendlies/german-ambassadors.html#comment-107365 I forgot to add about the Olympics part. It was due to the fact that whenever the Olympics come around, the media here will always remind us when was the last time we ever won a medal. The 1960 Olympics in Rome. So when we finally won a medal last year, I knew the media will not be 'drilling' us on that again! :) I forgot to add about the Olympics part. It was due to the fact that whenever the Olympics come around, the media here will always remind us when was the last time we ever won a medal. The 1960 Olympics in Rome. So when we finally won a medal last year, I knew the media will not be ‘drilling’ us on that again! :)

]]> By: diana http://germany.worldcupblog.org/friendlies/german-ambassadors.html/comment-page-1#comment-107364 diana Fri, 29 May 2009 04:30:22 +0000 http://germany.worldcupblog.org/friendlies/german-ambassadors.html#comment-107364 'Perhaps she is better known abroad for her appearance in a special issue of German Playboy.' I'm sorry I have no knowledge of her until what you wrote, Nick. The Olympics last year for me was about Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps (that was before what he did) and our female table-tennis team ending a 48-year-old medal drought by eventually coming in second to the host nation China in the final. For a small nation like Singapore, that is as big as...winning the World Cup. When Spain won Euro 2008, I can understand of the elation Spain as a nation felt. It took them 44 years to end such a drought. I know that happened two months before the Olympics but, the pain of not winning something for a long, long time...I can understand the feeling. Anyhow, but even if Britta Heidemann speaks Chinese fluently, for someone like me who does speak the language as well because that is my second language (it is due to my Chinese ancestry I first learned the language in school and also it is one of the official languages here in my country apart from English)...for one reason or another, it is just uncomfortable. Maybe it is the way I am being brought up. And since you mentioned Hungary, they are actually currently second in their WC qualifying group in Group A in the European zone. Played a game more than leaders Denmark (Portugal is third) but it is the goal difference which make Hungary second at the moment. I had 'stolen' all that info from the FIFA website actually. :P But anyhow for all we know, Hungary may make a return to the world stage. That is if things stay the way they are in Group A. ‘Perhaps she is better known abroad for her appearance in a special issue of German Playboy.’
I’m sorry I have no knowledge of her until what you wrote, Nick.

The Olympics last year for me was about Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps (that was before what he did) and our female table-tennis team ending a 48-year-old medal drought by eventually coming in second to the host nation China in the final. For a small nation like Singapore, that is as big as…winning the World Cup. When Spain won Euro 2008, I can understand of the elation Spain as a nation felt. It took them 44 years to end such a drought. I know that happened two months before the Olympics but, the pain of not winning something for a long, long time…I can understand the feeling.

Anyhow, but even if Britta Heidemann speaks Chinese fluently, for someone like me who does speak the language as well because that is my second language (it is due to my Chinese ancestry I first learned the language in school and also it is one of the official languages here in my country apart from English)…for one reason or another, it is just uncomfortable. Maybe it is the way I am being brought up.

And since you mentioned Hungary, they are actually currently second in their WC qualifying group in Group A in the European zone. Played a game more than leaders Denmark (Portugal is third) but it is the goal difference which make Hungary second at the moment. I had ’stolen’ all that info from the FIFA website actually. :P But anyhow for all we know, Hungary may make a return to the world stage. That is if things stay the way they are in Group A.

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