Will German World Cup win boost 'Mutti' Merkel's ratings?

Football-loving Chancellor seems more popular than ever after Germany's World Cup success

Angela Merkel with the German football team
(Image credit: Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)

Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel is "riding high" after Germany's World Cup win, reports the Daily Telegraph. The nation's best World Cup performance in over 24 years and its first World Cup victory since reunification has "done wonders" for Merkel's image over the past few weeks.

Merkel has been called the team's "lucky charm" and according to many German supporters "our twelfth man is a woman".

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