Tomorrow the Mannschaft take on Sweden in Gothenburg in their final game of what has been a highly entertaining year. Remaining true to his policy of using friendly fixtures to blood younger players, Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has pencilled in a
since the death of Robert Enke. Ruhe in Frieden, Robert.
Germany’s final competitive fixture of 2010 against Kazakhstan garnered the desired result – though it was a well-earned victory. The 3-0 result may have made things look convincing, but for the first forty-eight minutes the unheralded Kazakhs gave as good
Kazakhstan. A country unknown to many, and one that would have been unknown to many more were if not for the film about its allegedly most famous son Borat Sagdaev. A country famous for a weird, peasant-like people, bizarre public
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 –
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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