World Cup in South Africa - Public Viewing in Germany
From June 11th till July 11th the whole of Germany is crazy about soccer. Whether kids or adults, women or men, the young or the old, all meet up with friends to watch the games.
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Whether in Munich, Hamburg or Cologne, public viewing parties are everywhere. You are planning to watch the games together with your friends at home, in a pub, at university or somewhere else? Capture those moments with your camera and send them to us together with a short explanation via mail. The best shots will be published on the homepage of study-in.de.
Already since 2001 the chair in marketing I at the university of Hohenheim started its long term survey on the behaviour of German World Cup fans. Now that the next WC is about to start, the scientists took the chance and presented new results. The main one: Woman are more passionate about the WC while men tend to watch more games in total. While 48,4 percent of the women will watch all matches of the German National team, only 21,9 percent als plan to watch other teams as well. With men the complete opposite applies: 31,2 percent will watch the German matches, while 50,1 percent aim to watch as many games as possible.
Helpful link: More interesting statistics you can find on http://www.wm-studie.de
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Public Viewing in Germany
Nienke is mad about her home country
Since October 2008 Nienke Leeflang is studying medicine at the university of Freiburg. She describes her home country like this:
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"The World Cup 2010 takes place in South Africa, the country I hail from. It's a huge event, which motivates the whole country and brings together people from different nations. Many in Germany are curious about how everything will progress. I don't have any doubts because I'm really positve and supportive about the whole thing, because I know, how much South Africa needs this event. They have built a couple new and very modern stadiums, have improved the infrastructure and have worked on the security.
But there's more to South Africa, than just the WC, that draws tourist to it. The landscape is very diverse: The inland is rather dry and yellow with lots of thorn trees. In the coastal region the climate changes to rather tropical with banana trees, sugar cane and the well-known wine yards. There is no need to leave the country if you want to go on vacation, because South Africa's got it all: Warm water coast with perfect waves you can surf, pituresque, white beaches and the Kruger National park with its wild animals. This huge country makes you never feel bored.
The friendliness of the people is overwhelming and makes you forget about small delays or how slow some things use to happen.
There's always something going on. Either it's the taxi drivers cruising around like maniacs, that scare you or mugging taking place way to often. Unfortunately, South Africa still hasn't got a grip on that and sometimes I'm glad that I don't live there anymore because of that. But there are also many bars and clubs, which are mostly crammed because of all those south african bands, which play there live. gespielt.
Do I need to mention, that I miss the sunny days, because the sun shines approx. 360 days a year in S.A.?"
Hint: Our information centre in Johannesburg is also "suffering" from severe football fever and has planned various worldcup related events.
