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 [...]

 
Today, Jürgen Klinsmann celebrated his 44th birthday somewhere in Russian airspace on his way to a Bayern Munich marketing gig in Japan. Back down on earth, we celebrate his birthday with this great goal he scored during the 1994 World Cup in the USA. It was Germany’s final group game against South Korea and this [...]

By now most clubs have started their pre-season preparations, most Spaniards have recovered from their Euro party hangover and I had time to sit back and inspect the Euros from Germany’s perspective for one final Euro 2008 blog post, before leaving the tournament to the history books and moving on to the World Cup qualifiers.
This [...]

Germany and Spain haven’t met in a major tournament for 20 years and only on three occasions overall. Here’s a quick rundown of the games:
Euro 1976 Quarter-Final (Yugoslavia)
Back in the days the Euros were played in a similar fashion clubs play out the Champions League and UEFA Cup. A group stage where each team played [...]

For those of you who just recently decided to jump on the Germany bandwagon to have a team to support at the Euros, it might be time for a crash course in German football history. The following video will help you compete in simple name-dropping competitions and take on other fans in my football nation [...]

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

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