No summer, it seems to me, has been expected more eagerly than this one. He’s running late, that alone leaves us staring at our weather apps more evocatively every day. And he gradually releases us back to life. Because in the open air, which has now also become commonplace among pandemic pessimists, we can almost feel safe.
How wonderfully it fits that right now the men’s European football championship is being rescheduled! And we can meet for this in initially smaller groups and on time for the knockout rounds in July probably also in large groups for the games.
Shortly after the invention of television in the 1930s, Olympic games were shown in “television rooms” set up especially for such events. For football matches, fans gathered in front of the shop windows of the specialty shops.
Among friends of friends
And since football has also excited urban hipster scenes, games have been broadcast in trendy bars, and temporary bistros pop up in vacant garages and on the roof terraces of abandoned office buildings. Usually run by a boys gang, its audience is fed by the usual suspects, friends of friends.
It seems natural today that girls and women are excited about it. It was not until the late 1990s that a certain David Beckham entered the international football world. And with him not only a master of long passes, but also someone who looked cool doing it. Until then, only tennis players or Formula 1 drivers had been spotted alongside models, princesses and actresses – suddenly a footballer conquered the “posh” Spice Girl Victoria. Girls’ hearts all over the world beat one or two bars faster.
“The perfect match”
Beckham paved the way for a new generation of gamers: pretty enough to pose for men’s magazines, tattooed like a former prisoner and always a long way from the conformist understanding of women – whom women probably never really found sexy.
The current Panini album is full of attractive players, in the Swiss team Kevin Mbabu and Granit Xhaka are my favorites. Nevertheless, I remain loyal to the English, no matter how slim their chances in the competition are. “The First Cut Is The Deepest” is true in love and in football.
Lisa Feldmann already thought about the deeper meaning of our everyday lifestyle products as editor-in-chief of the magazine «Annabelle». Today you can read about it every second Saturday in Blick and on Instagram under feldmanntrommelt.