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Funny old Fabio

Funny old Fabio

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 –

Rick Joshua January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 General No Comments Read more

Team and Website News Update

Team and Website News Update

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

Rick Joshua December 16, 2011May 26, 2016 General No Comments Read more

Germany v Netherlands – Analysis

Germany v Netherlands - Analysis

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

Rick Joshua November 19, 2011November 19, 2011 General No Comments Read more

Kicker’s Ratings and Latest News

Kicker's Ratings and Latest News

Kicker Online’s ratings for the game against the Ukraine were published today, and make for some interesting comparisons to those posted by myself and Bild. While Bild and I disagreed on most things but selected the same Man of the

Rick Joshua November 15, 2011October 17, 2014 General No Comments Read more

Latest News from Kyiv

Latest News from Kyiv

Time for an update on the latest team news, and what – according to Kicker at least – looks like something approaching an experimental line-up by Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw. Having initially been left behind at the team hotel, Mario Gómez

Rick Joshua November 11, 2011November 11, 2011 General No Comments Read more

Ukraine Update…

Ukraine Update...

Time for some latest news on the team for the friendly against the Ukraine in Kyiv this coming Friday, and the bad news that noth Miroslav Klose and Marco Reus are both out of the running. While I didn’t actually

Rick Joshua November 8, 2011November 9, 2011 General No Comments Read more

The Squad for the Ukraine and the Netherlands

The Squad for the Ukraine and the Netherlands

Next week we see the Nationalmannschaft in two rather tasty-looking fixtures: away in Kiev against Euro 2012 co-hosts the Ukraine and then what should should be a classic at Hamburg’s AWD Arena against old rivals the Netherlands – twenty-three years

Rick Joshua November 4, 2011November 5, 2011 General No Comments Read more

Belgium and Blue Sweaters

Belgium and Blue Sweaters

The final European Championship qualifying fixture against Belgium at Düsseldorf’s Esprit-Arena is just over three hours away now, and is live on ESPN here in the UK which means that all of you lucky readers will get your on-the-spot as-it-happens

Rick Joshua October 11, 2011May 19, 2016 General No Comments Read more

Ten out of ten?

Ten out of ten?

Tomorrow evening Germany take on second-placed Belgium in Düsseldorf, in what will hopefully be a gala sign-off to what has been an encouraging and highly satisfactory qualifying campaign. While the game is technically meaningless for the Mannschaft there is still

Rick Joshua October 10, 2011October 11, 2011 General 1 Comment Read more

Kicker’s XI and Deutschlands junge Türken

Kicker's XI and Deutschlands junge Türken

Kicker has just published its starting XI for the upcoming match against Turkey, and I still have to wonder where they get some of their ideas from. While nearly everybody else seems to have selected a back line of Badstuber,

Rick Joshua October 6, 2011October 6, 2011 General No Comments Read more

Team News Update

Team News Update

As promised, here’s my update on the squad for the up-coming double header against Turkey and Belgium, and my selected lineup. Jogi Löw has made things easy this month by making few changes to the squad selected for the last

Rick Joshua October 5, 2011October 5, 2011 General No Comments Read more

Poland: Team News

Poland: Team News

Having watched the Austria game for a third time this afternoon, I thought I’d keep things up to date with the latest team news for the friendly international against Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland in Danzig/Gdańsk on Tuesday.

Rick Joshua September 4, 2011September 5, 2011 General No Comments Read more
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