At least UEFA thinks so and decided to ban Joachim Löw and his Austrian colleague Joseph Hickersberger for one match, following their comedy moment in Monday’s match. One match bans can’t be appealed and neither were either of the two coaches questioned about the incident. Instead UEFA trusted the referee’s account. Manuel Mejuto, the ref [...]

Jogi Löw obviously had to explain himself to the press after the Croatia game. Apart from promising a different German side against Austria, and stating the obvious - “All the things we did well against Poland were conspicuous by their absence against Croatia.” - he also provided a more in depth analysis with the above [...]

Here’s a short and quick pre-match round up of training camp related news.
As you can see from the photo, the players are having fun - lots of fun - during training. Though, given that those photos come from the few sessions, where the team opens up to the press, it could just as well all [...]

The German national team had promised to go into hiding in their base-camp and they kept their word. As mentioned in the other post, they built a large fence around their hotel at the Lago Maggiore, and it’s doing its job so far. Only little snippets of news are bubbling to the surface, and for [...]

The German national team have arrived at their Euro base-camp in the small Swiss town of Ascona, where they’ll hopefully reside up until the very end of the tournament. Jogi Löw is already busy doing what he likes best: fine-tuning and optimising. Which gives us time to explore Germany’s temporary home and uncover some fun [...]

entourage [on-toor-ahzh] : (n) A group of people who assist or travel with an important or well-known person.
There is no doubt that when a person of notariety and flare steps off of a plane, people take notice. They clammor to get that picture or that signature. There are flash bulbs and droves of people who [...]

The training camp in Mallorca is over and it’s time for a last round up of all the news, which came out of Spain over the last few days.
Joachim Löw has received some negative press following his Euro squad “casting”, with the journalists questioning whether it was necessary to pick 26 instead of 23 players [...]

The news are out and Marko Marin, Patrick Helmes and Jermaine Jones were sent back home.
So much for all the Marin superstar hype, his promising performance in yesterdays friendly and the praise Löw had for his little one. Helmes, Jones and Marin were the players with the least experience in the national team, 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 [...]

A few more days have passed by in Mallorca, the WAGs have left the hotel and the players have finally swapped the basketball court for the football pitch. It’s time for another training camp news roundup.
More details from the extensive and thorough work in the gym were revealed to the press and it’s all about [...]