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The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

— Franz Beckenbauer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb.

— Claudia Schiffer

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

— Serge Schmemann

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

— Sepp Blatter

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

— Graham Taylor

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

— Pele

I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

— Taj Mahal

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

— Vladimir Putin

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

— John Higgins

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

— Jermain Defoe

✗Opposing Perspectives

The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.

— Lamar Hunt