{"id":79,"date":"2006-06-21T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/video-the-ball-checks-in"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:09:30","slug":"video-the-ball-checks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/video-the-ball-checks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Ball checks in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/erfurt\/ger_erfurt_opera_sign.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" alt=\"The Opera Hostel in Erfurt\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera-hostel.com\/\">The Opera Hostel in Erfurt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, time for another &#8220;behind-the-scenes&#8221; look at the life of The Ball in Germany. Phil and I arrived in Erfurt from the Opening Ceremony in M\u00fcnchen to find that Andrew&#8217;s Spirit-of-Football project had run into horrendous sponsor problems and that most of what they had been planning had of necessity been cancelled. So, no beach football for them or us. Schade.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Check out The Ball checking in\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-qwtkzCHCoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Yes, check out The Ball checking in to the Opera Hostel in Erfurt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/videos\/check-out-the-ball-checking-in\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>But all was not lost &#8212; Andrew recommended that we stay in the Opera Hostel, which, like the World Cup itself, had just opened. What a top recommendation that proved to be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2006\/erfurt\/ger_erfurt_opera_crew.jpg\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" alt=\"The Opera Hostel Crew - Dixi, Sany and Jens\" \/><br \/>\nThe Opera Crew<\/p>\n<p>We were made to feel welcome beyond anything that we expected, and this little video is our homage to the wonderfully friendly Dixi, Sany and Jens. We wish you all the very best for the future. May the Opera thrive.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you wondering why the video is in German &#8212; there are a couple of reasons. One is that The Ball necessarily speaks the local language (if not perfectly, then at least fluently) and the second is that we wanted to produce something for our hosts &#8212; not just you English-speaking lot. You want a translation? <em>Then go and learn German!<\/em> :P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opera Hostel in Erfurt Okay, time for another &#8220;behind-the-scenes&#8221; look at the life of The Ball in Germany. Phil and I arrived in Erfurt from the Opening Ceremony in M\u00fcnchen to find that Andrew&#8217;s Spirit-of-Football project had run into horrendous sponsor problems and that most of what they had been planning had of necessity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-video"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}