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GDT: Group B - May 13 - Germany (5) vs Belarus (2)

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Really solid win for the Germans. US-Germany game on Sunday should be fun. Hopefully Rieder will be able to play then
 
Deutschland Dangler said:
I don't know about the methodology but according to a website that publishes these statistics, 470.000 people watched the match against Canada yesterday (ranking 26th among all "shows" on that day).
The WC qualification round (!) games of the German football national team against teams like Georgia and Ireland drew between 11 and 13 million, for comparison.
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Says all. I life 20 km away from Czech border. Its another league. Many have Czech flags on the car like here for football World Cup.
 
Well you just can't compare it with Football. At best you can compare it with the Handball championship this year or maybe the Basketball team. If the team was good enough to fight for a medal it would get a bigger audience and the games would be picked up by bigger television stations as well. Right now the games are only shown on Sport1 . I also think the WC beeing held yearly hurts the interest as well.
 
Happy for Germany! Looking strong! And still being alive in a battle for quarterfinals which would be a nice success :)
 
Hardly anyone I know even knows the Worlds are on. If they happen to catch a game they usually like it, it's just that there's next to no exposure in the mainstream media.
On the other hand I went shopping today and twice had to turn down people that wanted to hand me merchandise for the upcoming soccer thing. Err no thanks, I don't want stickers :laugh:

Anyway, important 3 pts. Not expecting much against the US but we should get another three from Hungary.
 
serp said:
Well you just can't compare it with Football. At best you can compare it with the Handball championship this year or maybe the Basketball team. If the team was good enough to fight for a medal it would get a bigger audience and the games would be picked up by bigger television stations as well. Right now the games are only shown on Sport1 . I also think the WC beeing held yearly hurts the interest as well.
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Honestly, I don't see how it being annual hurts. There is hardly any hockey on as it is. It's not like it is tiring. Again, look at Biathlon. Annual WC as well, often at bad times, and people watch. It's on the news! Hockey? Perhaps if they overachieve.
 
Urbanskog said:
So how serious is Tobi's injury? Will we still see him play in this tournament?
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Couldn't find any information so far. I hope he returns soon, though they might even make the quarterfinals without him, the team is just much better when he is playing.
 
Yeah, as mentioned: football is well ahead and Germany also has very strong domestic handball and basketball league.
 
JTD said:
Really solid win for the Germans. US-Germany game on Sunday should be fun. Hopefully Rieder will be able to play then
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They caught him on camera during one of the commercial breaks, the leg didn't look all that good, he wore a leg brace and had to stretch it out completely. Beyond that he didn't look like he was in much pain.

No official word on his injury either.
 
Eisen said:
Honestly, I don't see how it being annual hurts. There is hardly any hockey on as it is. It's not like it is tiring. Again, look at Biathlon. Annual WC as well, often at bad times, and people watch. It's on the news! Hockey? Perhaps if they overachieve.
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It hurts when the team isn't good enough to actually win a medal. If it was every two or four years people might still watch just out of curiousity ( if its on one of the bigger networks ) even if the team doesn't have that much of a shot. Annually ? No chance for that . In 2010 when the WC was here it was a bit different but you can't expect that every year for a team that can't really win anything. The team needs to show it can get close to a medal to generate some buzz.
 
Isnt the Bundesliga boring with Bayern winning it every year. Im more and more into hockey. The system in the NHL is much better. The last can beat the first and many teams can win championships.
 
Bure80 said:
Isnt the Bundesliga boring with Bayern winning it every year. Im more and more into hockey. The system in the NHL is much better. The last can beat the first and many teams can win championships.
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The German love for football transcends any logic.
Also, the championship isn't the only thing teams have to play for in football.
 
Bure80 said:
Isnt the Bundesliga boring with Bayern winning it every year. Im more and more into hockey. The system in the NHL is much better. The last can beat the first and many teams can win championships.
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There's is a lot complaining about the BuLi just because of that (see Hummels trade for the latest iteration), but this is nothing new. Since the end of the 80s, when Bayern started to really really take off, it is like that. Still won't stop anyone. Footy is just too popular. Championship is boring, I watch on a per game basis. Of course it helps that Mainz is my club.
 
Eisen said:
I got tickets for a couple of games in 2010. Was great.
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Me too, it was. I was in Cologne with 15k Russians vs Slovakia, that crowd was mental. After the game we got the **** outta there quickly. :laugh:


And yes Buli has become as boring and futile a competition as it gets.
 
It didn't really help that the UEFA threw more and more money at the few CL-teams that made it far. It has basically turned into a system where only a selective few rich teams have any chance. They get far more money than everyone else, and have reached a stage were one bad year simply gets answered by throwing a ton of money at the best players available so that it won't happen again. There are one year surprises, but they quickly get their best players bought away by the rich. The only ones who have a slight chance of joining the elite clubs are those who got a rich owner at the right time. It wasn't so long ago that winning the Europa League brought you less money than making it to the CL and lose every game.

UEFA simply doesn't care enough to spread the money more fairly, and now the really rich bring in the most money for them anyway, so they have even less of a reason.
 
Yeah and it made club football really boring to watch. I started tuning out a couple of years ago and mostly just check scores nowadays . Still watch the national team but thats about it.
I grew up dispising Bayern Munich and it would just make me sick watching them win all the time.
 
Sanderson said:
It didn't really help that the UEFA threw more and more money at the few CL-teams that made it far. It has basically turned into a system where only a selective few rich teams have any chance. They get far more money than everyone else, and have reached a stage were one bad year simply gets answered by throwing a ton of money at the best players available so that it won't happen again. There are one year surprises, but they quickly get their best players bought away by the rich. The only ones who have a slight chance of joining the elite clubs are those who got a rich owner at the right time. It wasn't so long ago that winning the Europa League brought you less money than making it to the CL and lose every game.

UEFA simply doesn't care enough to spread the money more fairly, and now the really rich bring in the most money for them anyway, so they have even less of a reason.
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I don't really see the Bundesliga's (or football's) popularity suffer because of that, though. The clubs are just completely ingrained into their respective cities' DNA.
 
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