Growing up in Canada , one thing I can tell you is that Canadians could give a rats ass about football, soccer , footie, or what ever you want to call it. We play hockey and we are very good at it. We are like the Brazilians of Hockey, if you will.
Plus we invented the game. Of course in the summer our national game is Lacrosse
[link] , Canada's national summer sport, which I have never played. I played soccer once as a kid and had my leg broken because some other kid had steel toed soccer shoes, it was the first time I had broken a bone,and the last time I played the game. I have broken four more bones since then. Anyways now I live in Germany and today it is fucking nuts here. After living in Italy as long as I have I am use to how crazy people can be during important games and world cup, but to see the normally reserved Germans going nuts is very weird. Also yesterday there was right by my house was a neo nazi demonstration. not the first time I have seen this here but weird just the same. There are so many police around I did not see the nazis.
( I had as a young man had to fight some neo nazis because they had crashed a friend of mine party and would not be polite and started being dicks )
Just as well, as there are always so many anti-nazis that if the police were not there they would have killed the nazis.
The Germans are a funny lot , but I really do like them even though some of them sometimes can be a bit anal. Even though I donīt care about the game I am really happy for the Germans as it is not exactly a tourist meca and this way the rest of the world can see how wonderful of a country it is and how nice the people can be.