It’s a little bit late, but here are the player ratings for last week’s match in Bremen from the folks at Kicker Online. As usual when there has been a poor team performance the scores vary wildly, with Kicker agreeing
A new year, a new green and white Trikot harking back to the glory days of 1972, a prestige friendly against tough opposition: all seemed set for a sparkling start to the slow build-up towards the Euro 2012 finals in
Well, it’s less than twelve hours until the Mannschaft kick off their first match of 2012 against France in Bremen – and time for an update on the team line-up. Despite rumours circulating that he was not completely fit –
The 22-man squad has just been named for next week’s friendly international against France in Bremen, and with the Euro finals fast approaching there are no surprises or new names. The squad has a slightly weaker look to it on
Finally – after months of anticipation – the new green away kit has been revealed by the DFB. Sporting the DFB Adler in black on a white disc surmounted by three championship stars in subtle green thread, the new incarnation
June 21st 1978. Córdoba, Argentina. West Germany versus Austria, and a match that would find its place in history and footballing folklore. In Austria it would be known as Der Wunder von Córdoba or “the miracle of Córdoba”. In Germany
I didn’t see this article at the time, and stumbled across it today. Let’s just say that I am still desperately trying to stop my sides from splitting at yet another rather odd outburst from Fabio Capello, England’s favourite –
Just a quick one today, just to say that two pre-tournament warm-up fixtures have now been arranged in late May and early June. This means that there are now three friendly matches for the Nationalmannschaft between now and their opening
Well, the draw for the finals of Euro 2012 has been made… OK, so it’s not as bad as the much-feared Spain-Portugal-France combo, but pretty tough all the same. Drawn in Group B based in the Ukraine, the Mannschaft have
The draw for the finals of Euro 2012 takes place later today at the Palace of Arts in Kyiv, and by the end of what will undoubtedly be some bizarre ceremony consisting of po-faced UEFA officials, bizarre Ukrainian folk singers
So, finally – time for more analysis of the game against the Netherlands from earlier this week, as well as the usual player ratings. Although this was a only a friendly, the perfomance has to go down as one of
After what has been an interesting 2011 which has seen the completion of a successful European Championship qualification campaign and the development of a team that is looking good enough to win the tournament, the year comes to an end