I am glad we lost. There I said it.
Fabio Capello showed up with an energetic and compact English team. Jogi Löw on the other hand came down with a first-half Germany display reminiscent of the 1-2 loss to Croatia. We were often unmotivated and at times outplayed. Some may say that this was the German [...]

The last match of the year is approaching and the squad lists for U21 and senior level have just been released:
U21 (vs Italy, 18.11.2008 in Osnabrück)
Goalkeepers: Florian Fromlowitz (Hannover 96), Manuel Neuer (Schalke), Tobias Sippel (1. FC Kaiserslautern)
Defenders: Andreas Beck (Hoffenheim), Jerome Boateng (Hamburger SV), Sebastian Boenisch (Werder Bremen), Niko Bungert (FSV Mainz 05), [...]

Piotr Trochowski scored his first international goal to give Germany a deserved 1-0 win over Wales in this past week’s important WC 2010 qualifier. The goal broke through an otherwise compact Welsh defensive back-line consisting often at times of the entire Welsh team. Germany was frustrated to a number of long and ultimately wide attempts [...]

Following Rene Adler’s shoulder injury, Jogi Löw decided to call up Werder Bremen’s Tim Wiese and give him a “chance”. This is how it went for him…

He spent some time with Andreas Köpcke and Robert Enke during training…

..then he spent some time on the bench – around 90 minutes – during Germany’s friendly against Belgium.
And [...]

OK, this is admittedly a bit of sour grapes over some poor Euro 2008 decisions by Löw – where poor, for example, could equal David Odonkor. I mean, everything had been in place. I had written a Marin player profile, dug up a highlight video on YouTube to win over skeptics and wrote how everyone [...]

In their first match since Jens Lehmann announced his international retirement, Jogi Löw is preparing or the friendly against Belgium on August 20. Not only will the team’s goal keeping position see a new face, but so will several other positions. Tim Borowski (Bayern Munich), David Odonker (Real Betis), Oliver Neuville (Borussia Mönchengladbach), [...]

1. Serbia were leading 1-0 for most of the match, which made me see Germany’s performance more negative than it actually was for most of the match.
2. Germany played a lot of sloppy passes, which were either too slow, too short or not precise enough. Some of them were played from the defence and [...]

1. There’s still some work to do. I expected tired legs and a slower pace, but not necessarily sloppy and careless defending. Belarus deserved to draw the game.
2. Something must have been lost in translation between what Belarus’ German coach Bernd Stange told the German press and what he told his players. He had promised [...]

I was unable to watch the match, but here are the highlights

Bastian got a little agressive, Klose found the net. So did Gomez.

Captain Michael Ballack has come forward and made some statements concerning his team. He is confident that his team can rediscover their form and has spoken to them about taking the Euro task forward and not living in the days of the World Cup.
Ballack acknowledged there were concerns but said there was no need [...]