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I just got back from watching the World Cup Final and partying on the Fan Mile in front of the Brandenburg Gate here in Berlin.  What a night!  I saw the game way down by the Victory Column with a crowd that was mostly Italian.  If that wasn’t clear enough from all the flags and […]

Less than an hour until the World Cup Final!  I’ve been taking shots around town today…here are some of the highlights (you can see more on my Flickr page).  People are basically drinking like fish and going nuts, at least downtown.  I’ve seen far more Italian fans than French ones, but there are plenty of […]

I walked out of a bank yesterday after paying my rent and saw an interesting banner on a street corner that seemed to be telling me to blog about something.  As I got closer I realized that the banner actually swivels around in the wind and that I was looking at the backside of it […]

Figures from a recent Pew survey reveal just how unpopular soccer is in the US relative to other sports:  only 4% of American adults chose soccer as their favorite sport to watch.  Pew breaks that down by race and backs up the comment I made earlier about World Cup advertising in Hispanic markets.
Of course this […]

The New York Times has an interesting story on the gazillions of dollars major corporations are spending on advertising at the World Cup.  Why?  The expected TV audience for the final here in Berlin is 300 million, more than three times that of the Super Bowl.
Before I left the US, I remember seeing only one […]

Germany’s Federal Statistical Office has released a pretty slick document (pdf) in English containing profiles of the 32 countries participating in the World Cup.  Stats include life expectancy, mean age of population, size of the economy, and number of internet users as well as data related to national football clubs like world ranking, World Cup […]