You may have to click on the pic for a closeup, but the paintjob done to this particular lightpost (located just outside the Altstadt near the Plärrer transit corral) hearkens back to 2006 when Germany hosted the World Cup soccer tournament and Nuremberg was one of the 12 cities where the games were played. The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715 million people(!?!) watching the 2006 final, and the qualifying games are well under way for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa-- 204 national teams are playing in tournaments to winnow that number down to the 32 squads that will head to Africa next summer. For more information of Nuremberg's part in the 2006 World Cup, match scores and participants and a good pic of Nuremberg's curious elongated octagonal stadium, Frankenstadion click here for an archived recap.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Leftover From 2006
You may have to click on the pic for a closeup, but the paintjob done to this particular lightpost (located just outside the Altstadt near the Plärrer transit corral) hearkens back to 2006 when Germany hosted the World Cup soccer tournament and Nuremberg was one of the 12 cities where the games were played. The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715 million people(!?!) watching the 2006 final, and the qualifying games are well under way for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa-- 204 national teams are playing in tournaments to winnow that number down to the 32 squads that will head to Africa next summer. For more information of Nuremberg's part in the 2006 World Cup, match scores and participants and a good pic of Nuremberg's curious elongated octagonal stadium, Frankenstadion click here for an archived recap.
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