The magic of the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium

Last year in the summer when the biggest football party ever was hold in Germany, there was this one very special stadium. It was special for us, because this was the place we saw the game together. Australia vs Croatia. But not only that. I was able to see Germany vs Portugal here aswell. And that was a great moment.



I will not say again how I saw 5 WC games, 4 of them in Stuttgart, but anyway, this stadium is and will always be special to us! So it was clear that we wanted to see the stadium again. BUT... how shall we get there? The tours are only during the week, that is what I work, and even the ones you can book don´t really tell you when it is and how much it costs. Daniel should have got there with Jess, but we all know that did not happen. So lucky us, the Neckar Park Fest was about to happen on the last Sunday. And now guess what, they would offer a free tour thru the dressing rooms and the press conference room! How cool is that? And best part... it was for free. You just needed to be there early enough to grab a card, since they only let in a certain amount of people.



The days before that fest, we kept thinking about getting the Handball nationalteam shirts and then just print on "2 - Hens" on it. You know, printed shirts are some sort of ritual for us by now. We want printed shirts every time we meet. Last year we did the Germany ones, so we thought the Handball ones would be a nice idea aswell. Not to forget, they are World Champions. Isn´t that really cool?

Stupid thing we could not find the right shirts, sizes and numbers. So we just kept thinking about it and it got more and more annoying... so we finally thought, getting the VfB Stuttgart shirt instead might be a good idea aswell.



So the visit of the Neckar Park Fest was a good chance to visit the original VfB fan shop aswell. Jess wanted a scarf anyway. So we decided that we could use the money aswell to get the golden VfB shirts with name and numbers on the back. Jess picked 33 - Gomez, since he is Daniels most fave player, and I picked 17 - Delpierre. When I went to see the game Stuttgart vs Frankfurt in the stadium a lot earlier this year, I kind of thought Delpierre, a french defender, is pretty good. So I remembered that game and the great season he played and got his number on my back. We even got the star!!! You know, after 5 titles you get a star on the shirt. And this year the VfB got one. Finally.



We also went and check the "Porsche Arena" a place where the Handball WC had a stage this year aswell (Jess got the Handball DVD!!!) and we even saw some of the Handball game. So Jess has seen Handball live and in Germany! Daniel, you should be proud!

Anyway. Jess got a WC poster and is veeery happy.



Sadly it started raining and we headed home to eat something, put on our shirts, leave the stuff and get back just in time for our free stadium tour! The stadium was open, so you could walk in. The pitch of course was not allowed to touch and still we did. I mean, please, on that pitch (I hope they changed the gras) played players like Zidane, Raul, Neill, Kewell, Figo, Schweini, Lahm and Ronaldo Cristiano (our triplet brother!!!) so we just had to get near it!!

We took some very funny pics showing what great players we really are! And it was funny to see the stadium from that angle. Oh and then we went inside, but before we did... yeah... we ate DONUTS! And they were soooo good! Daniel, now I can understand you so much better! Donuts... yummy...



It was really cool! The press conference room is a place I only knew from the TV and now I was sitting there, enjoying my 15 seconds of fame (Jess batteries did not work anymore :-( damn it ) and then down the hall. Figo walked there. No joke, that was all I could think off. And the fact that Germany celebrated after the game for the 3rd place right on this hall. It was just a very special place for me. So I decided that this was my fave part of day!



To understand how insane we were, you should take a closer look at the pics, dear friends! I just know that it has become my personal theatre of dreams. And the stage was the last one Figo danced with the ball in the red shirt of his homeland. It is special and I could feel the magic.



And, well, you know... it was just fun!