I live in a small city in Germany called Schweinfurt and let me tell you that Germans don't play when it comes to soccer. I know Americans can be a bit fanatic when it comes to baseball and American football but Germans will kill for soccer. When they were eliminated from the World Cup the Germans I work with called out sick the next day, they were in the streets crying and I thought some of them were going to have to seek professional help. The way some of them were acting you would have thought their lives depended on whether they won or not. My next door neighbors are German and they were extremely upset- I started to go over to their house and ask them if they needed to talk!
