Thursday, July 7, 2016

Soccer mad Germans declare sympathy for France before Euro clash (Reuters)

Football Soccer - Euro 2016 - Marseille, France, 7/7/16 - germany fans gather in Marseille, France. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans appear to be tempering characteristic ambition to win the day in a Euro 2016 clash against France with higher sympathies for a core European partner hit by economic travails and militant attacks. Thursday's soccer match decides who will qualify for next weekend's final at the Paris Stade de France, one of the targets of Nov. 13 attacks that shook Europe. In an editorial on Tuesday entitled "Allez, allez", the Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote how France needed to beat Germany.


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