Abstract
This article analyses German press coverage of the 1998 football World Cup as a site for discursive constructions of German national identity. It proposes that references to National Socialism and right-wing thought in 1998 were made through reports which presented Germany today as the antithesis of the country pre-1945. Considering discourses on German hooligans and the theme of nationalism, it is argued that liberalism and democracy have represented political cornerstones of German national identity. This image is shown to be challenged, however, by discourses which seek to legitimize nationalism and propose the concept of a national identity based on political integration to be impracticable or even wrong.
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