This research builds on works drawn from the fields of sports studies, German studies, and digital humanities. Sports historian Kay Schiller (2015) warned readers not to confuse the rising acceptance of a multi-ethnic society with a positive endorsement of multiculturalism, which became a trend when studying football and national identity. Building on his argument, my research hopes to find out in which ways was the team perceived in the media as a representative and an endorsement of a supposed multicultural society. While Schiller recognized emerging discussions of multicultural society in debates over football nationalism, German studies scholars Stehle and Weber (2013) have focused on the phenomenon where media portrayed players differently based on their race rather than performance. However, most humanity scholars selected several articles and conducted close reading despite the number of materials they had at hand. With the help of computational methods, my work takes the approach of scalable reading (Müller) -- combining close and distant reading (Moretti, 2013), and treats computational methods as an addition to rather than a replacement of close reading when analyzing cultural phenomena. I believe that only through detecting long-term trends and telling individual stories can one better answer the open-ended research questions formulated above.