The german version of the official motto “A time to make friends” is when translated literally “the world for a visit with friends”. So far, people have been taking that literally, as far as I can tell. Everybody is a friend here. And there are tons of people at the public viewing places (which are currently being extended, after there were 700.000 people in Berlin’s fan mile during the GER-ECU game, and 72.000 in the stadium, not counting all the other viewing places, pubs etc.).

There is a cool pun on this motto: Friends for a visit with the world champion.

So I made some t-shirts with a free (for making, not ordering…) service. I hope they can ship them in reasonable time (especially before germany loses a game, that is):

Spreadshirt 'Freunde zu Gast beim Weltmeister'

Now I only have to hope that noone has registered this motto as a trademark. I checked the EU, German and international databases; nothing in there yet.