1.   Bertelsmann currently holds the live-broadcast rights to most German soccer games.

2.   About half of that money came from television license fees, which are negotiated by the German national soccer league.

3.   Germany then would support South Africa for a later World Cup, a move also advocated by the German soccer federation. . . .

4.   German soccer thugs battled police in Lens.

5.   The German soccer titan FC Bayern Munich mails a million copies of its master catalog.

6.   The German soccer federation lists addresses, phone numbers and schedules for Bundesliga clubs on www.dfb.t-online.de.

7.   The metaphor for German soccer is a knee in the kidneys.

8.   The newspaper Handelsblatt had the inevitable cartoon showing the two candidates, in German soccer uniforms, racing from an airplane.

9.   The only way to let customers choose among all eight German pro soccer games is by using digital technology to offer multiple channels.

10.   To demonstrate the technology, Boetsch held a short video conversation with Berti Vogts, coach of the German national soccer team.