Re: die-bundesliga(R) ruhr-valley-derby

On Sep 16, 11:41 am, Joachim Parsch <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Binder Dundat schrieb:



On Sep 16, 9:17 am, Joachim Parsch <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes. The wording "Die Mannschaft (the team) played well" has (in interview
language) widely replaced the identical phrase "We played well". For
whatever reason.

Sometimes reporters call the German Women's national team "Die deutschen
Fussballfrauen" (the german football women), a term which has no
equivalent for the men's national team.

Regards
Joachim

"Die mannschaft" like  trico's or azzuri or oranje etc. is the
nickname of the German national team

Where? In rss maybe. For sure it isn't in Germany, neither in the
media nor in everyday language.

Regards
Joachim

Yes you are correct "die mannschaft" means "the team" in german and
can refer to a handball team or a chess team or whatever. Maybe it is
just a North american nickname but I have seen it used over here many
times to describe the German mens national football team. You are
right, I can not remember hearing it as a nickname in Germany? In fact
i can not think of a nickname for the natinal team other than
"Nationalelf" which is even more boring than Die mannschaft and could
refer to a field hockey team or a womens national team or whatever
other sport has 11 players ? I am sure everyone understood what I
meant, but thanks for caring.
.

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