And all of a sudden the whole Asia tour by Germany was absolutely worth it.

Werder Bremen met Hamburger SV for the first of four matches on Wednesday in the DFB-Pokal semifinal. Werder deservedly came out on top after extra-time on penalties following an engaging 1-1 draw at full-time. Though it was Hamburg’s Frank Rost who kept the game on to become the longest ever Nord-Derby, it was Tim Wiese [...]

1. Following the 2-0 defeat, Wales coach John Toshack admitted “We couldn’t really get too many positives; only that the scoreline could have been bigger”. That was one and a half years ago, when Germany travelled to Wales for a Euro 2008 qualifier. This time around John Toshack’s worry wasn’t about a dominant German [...]

1. This was the best ever result for Liechtenstein against Germany. It was achieved by a Liechtenstein team missing five starting XI regulars, who were forced to work the weekend shift by their day job bosses – presumably. There were no reports of Liechtensteiners flooding the streets and mountains and partying all night long in [...]

Anyone remember this kid? Not Helmes, the other one.
I’d be even happier if it wasn’t Adler who he beat twice.
(You might want to put it on mute because of the annoying commentary.)

Congratulations to Norway for a quick and aggressive game. Now where does that leave the German team? Today it left us 0-1 down in the last quarter and frustrated till the end. If this sort of form continues we will be looking at a playoff against France.

I really wonder what is going on [...]

Germany faces Norway on Wednesday (20:45) for an international friendly. Löw has selected newcomers Andreas Beck and Mesut Özil. Both Michael Ballack and Torsten Frings are also called up. However, both Lukas Podolski and Robert Enke are omitted due to lack of recent playing time and injury. Arne Friedrich, although in the original lineup, is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Germany started qualification for the 2010 World Cup last week against Liechtenstein and Finland. Despite the generally positive results, Joachim Löw needs to quickly find the solutions to the problems that have been plaguing the German team since the Euro 2008 Final in Vienna.
1. There is a large hole in Germany’s defense. The defensive line looked [...]