That’s the idea, anyway. And nevertheless, from the pitch as on it, Germany has made a thing of the habit of lacking open ambitions. With 100 days to go, there remains to be very little seen footprint of the summer months’s tournament over and above the soccer media as well as unavoidable big duplicate trophies put in around the concourses of c

“This tournament can be a resurgence of the European thought, so as to superior stand up to crises and conflicts Down the road,” Lahm wrote within an report for Kicker in October. “Europe and its values – for instance democracy and flexibility, variety and tolerance, integration and inclusion – really should be strengthened and celebrated