Patrick Helmes will be out for about six months after he tore ligaments in his knee while playing sports on vacation. He underwent surgery Friday and will likely miss all the rest of Germany’s World Cup Qualifiers and a good half of the 2009/2010 Bundesliga season. All the best to him for a full recovery. [...]

Germany’s top striker, Miroslav Klose, injured his right ankle this weekend playing for FC Bayern in the Bundesliga. He will almost certainly miss Germany’s next two World Cup qualifiers against Liechtenstein and Wales. How long Klose will be out is as of yet undetermined. The injury leaves Bayern with only one fit striker in Lukas [...]

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 [...]

The tabloids usually have their eyes and ears everywhere and when they don’t they pretend and invent. Yet, BILD currently scream on their front page “Jaaaaaaaa! Michael Ballack spielt!” which translates to “Jaaaaaaaa! Michael Ballack is playing!”. So, here’s a short bit of good news, or is it?
Afterall we will field a half fit Torsten [...]

OK, just to give you a quick news update, as it’s already spreading through the comments:
Germany captain Michael Ballack is doubtful for Sunday’s Euro 2008 final against Spain because of an injury to his right calf, the German Football Association (DFB) said on its website (www.dfb.de) on Saturday.
Ballack missed training on Friday back at the [...]

The 26 man Germany squad are currently training in Mallorca. On Tuesday, May 27, they will have a preliminary match against Belarus in Kaiserslautern. This will give Jogi a chance to test his team and have a better idea of which players will be nominated to the final 23 man squad on May [...]

Mario Gomez is out for at least two weeks with a torn muscle fiber in his thigh.  He has scored 15 goals this season for VfB Stuttgart.
“Injuries are never welcomed, and I was pretty disappointed at first. But what can you do about it? I will try to return for the remainder of the season [...]