Japan’s World Cup Good Luck Charm: A Dog Named Rommel
Perhaps the Japanese World Cup team didn’t get the memo about not mentioning the war. In a delightful bit of irony, Japan’s World Cup team has been buoyed by the arrival of their good luck dog named Rommel. The miniature dachshund survived the long flight to Germany where he was met by a swarm of media members and photographers. Japan is unbeaten in 18 matches when Rommel, who shares a name with a famous German general, has been present at training. Let’s just hope he avoids those evil dog painters.
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By liz | June 8th, 2006 at 9:59 pm 
Just keep him away from the desert.
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Germany
By Trent | June 8th, 2006 at 10:57 pm Dogs. Ants. Fish. The Japanese have created an animal football army. Let’s hope they use if for good ends.
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United States
By zé | June 8th, 2006 at 11:19 pm As long as they don’t have a monkey army throwing shit at each other…
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Brazil
By nsnboy | June 9th, 2006 at 10:57 am maybe a pig.
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Australia
By Trent | June 9th, 2006 at 11:44 am A Monkey army?! zé, I like your thinking.
By Trent | June 9th, 2006 at 11:57 am Well, just now on the news I saw a South Korean PENGUIN World Cup exhibition. Madness!
By spyfoxx | June 9th, 2006 at 2:31 pm Japan simply rocks…
By Japundit » Rommel the World Cup dog | June 10th, 2006 at 2:10 pm [...] Rommel has been shipped to Germany for this month’s World Cup, and what on Earth was Japan thinking about when they named their mascot after one of Hitler’s warriors? Or am I missing something here? [...]
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By risa | June 11th, 2006 at 4:43 am I’ve been wondering and I’ve done a bit of research (in the Japanese language) but couldn’t find out why the dog is called Rommel. Japan FA’s chief media officer Mr. Teshima is the owner of the dog, so we’d have to ask him.
And the good luck dog status is unofficial — after all, the dog is someone’s pet that went up to the status in 2002 after he had been called Ron (short for Rommel) for 6 years already.
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Japan
By Harry | June 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm “You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you’re RIGHT! I NEVER would’ve thought of that!’”
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