Begeisterung! What a crazy match between Germany and Turkey. Since there are lots of Turkish decedents living in Germany either way it was going to be a wild night.

We sat on our couch again and watched with bated breath as the game unfolded just as boring as the last two times Germany lost their nerve. Oh no. Twelve minutes into the game a fire lit under their feet but Turkey was still the first to score. Ugh. Then Germany scored to tie things up for half time.

The game would have had a normal sense of tension to it but there was a huge storm in Vienna, which broke transmission of the game several times during the night. Even though we sat alone at home, it was as if we were sitting with everyone in the neighboring buildings as they cry out in either joy when Germany scored or in annoyance when the picture disappeared.

We almost didn’t see Germany score their second goal had it not been piped directly from Basel. Although Turkey’s second goal, 4 minutes before the end of the second half, wasn’t fully realized because of a one second sound delay.

Germany had a beautiful set up and gained their third goal of the evening, 1 minutes to go! The referee added 3 minutes of delay time, plenty of time for notorious Turkey to score again. I couldn’t look any more.

Here was the scene outside our apartment after the match. The jubilee lasted until about 1am.

video created with open source software, Kino, provided in the Ubuntu operating system.