（7月9日）
英國首相布萊爾週日接受採訪時説，德國此次成功舉辦的世界盃賽事，已經改變了德國的國際形象。他説：“過去德國給人們留下的是陳腐固執的舊印象，但現在，它已經被嶄新的，積極的，和更加公平的形象所代替。儘管沒能進決賽，但是你們可以安慰自己，你們應該自豪，因為德國是本屆杯賽的最大贏家，他們值得這個稱號！”
布萊爾還表示，英國會像德國學習，為2012年奧運會做準備。
他説：“世界盃又一次展示了體育可以讓人們團結起來。而我們必須感謝這個國家和他的人民。”
鏈結：http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/060709/6/8oze.html
原文：
Blair thanks Germany for tournament that 'beat all expectations'
9 July 2006
by AFP
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday that Germany had changed its image abroad for the better thanks to its spectacularly successful FIFA World Cup?.
"The old cliches have been replaced by a new, positive and more fair image of Germany," he wrote in a column for the Bild am Sonntag tabloid, in comments translated into German.
He acknowledged that the Germans were disappointed they had to settle for third place and leave Italy and France to battle it out in the final.
"But you can console yourselves and be proud that Germany is among the biggest winners of the tournament and that it deserves it."
He said the 2006 championship had "beat all expectations", particularly in its smooth organization and that Britain could take a page from Germany's planning as it prepares for the 2012 Olympics in London.
"The World Cup has once again shown that sport can bring people together. And we must thank this country and its citizens."
作者-岳東興-北京第二外國語學院-英語系
責編：佟杉杉