So, what had been billed as Germany’s toughest fixture of the group – with it being seen by some as something of an “away” fixture in a Berlin Olympiastadion bustling with loud supporters clad in Turkish red and white –
Stuffed Turkey…
Loddar the Bulgar
Statistically, Lothar Matthäus is one of the all-time greats. Holder of the most caps for any German international. Skipper of the winning 1990 World Cup side. The man with the most appearances at World Cup finals. The list goes on.
The flies are dropping…
Once again, the Mannschaft has been badly hit with illness and injury when closing in on an important tournament qualifier. With Michael Ballack out for the best part of two months and looking increasingly unlikely to wear the Schwarz und
Squad for Turkey and Kazakhstan
Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has named his squad for the double header against Turkey and Kazakhstan next week, adding Dortmund winger Kevin Großkreutz to what is essentially an unchanged selection. The same twenty-one players selected for the games against Belgium and
Germany v Azerbaijan: Real-time blog update
Here is my real-time blog for the game against Azerbaijan, shown live on ESPN as part of their commitment to German football. The game started slowly – and perhaps rather ominously with the substitution of Per Mertesacker – but soon
Heute: Aserbaidschan
Azerbaijan, oder. No sketchy report tonight – all of Germany’s home games are being aired on ESPN, so I will be watching the game live and providing my own biased journalistic take on proceedings as they happen. Sort of like
Ein schweres Stück Arbeit…
A hard piece of work, but Germany are off and running on the qualification trail for Euro 2012. Thanks to Miroslav Klose’s fifty-third international goal in his 102nd international, three valuable points were secured in Brussels this evening – with
Let the show begin…
By this time tomorrow, the Mannschaft would have played their first match of the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Belgium – with hopefully three points in the bag. Germany have not lost to the Red Devils in my lifetime, and
Disappointed
I’ve just heard that Mesut Özil has signed for Real Madrid, joining Sami Khedira on their bench-warmers’ list. I’d rather see him turning out for Bremen than that bunch of shysters, for at least he’d be getting to play first-team
Kopenhagen: 2-0, 2-1, 2-2. Pfft.
So to a brief report on the opening match of the international season against Denmark in Copenhagen, with Germany coach Jogi Löw leaving out the key stars of South Africa 2010 and playing essentially a ‘B’ team:
I’m getting there…
If you have accidentally stumbled upon this site already or have been lucky enough to have been provided with a preview link, you will see that content is being added day by day. Hopefully by the time of the Mannschaft’s
Nachrichten
For all those of you that might be following the progress of this site, you will see that I have now uploaded images of all of my replica shirts from 1990 onwards. I have also just now finished the statistical