The video speaks for itself, but I must say our U21 would give our senior team a run for their money. I honestly have not seen a German defense so well organized since 1996. There will be at long last no more Huth or Westermann (who in my mind is squarely at fault for [...]

 
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.)

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 [...]

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 [...]