I assume giving a post-match interview after you just lost the final of a major tournament is difficult enough, but doing so while a group of Spanish players – spearheaded by Iker Casillas in a Christoph Metzelder jersey – parades behind your back, might make it just a wee bit more difficult, cruel and all [...]

With a bit more than two hours to go it’s time to calm your nerves and distract you for a moment. While the German national team enjoyed a topsy-turvy tournament, so did the TV stations, who were serving up an overdose of football related coverage.

Following their shaky performance against Austria, German news channel N24 announced: [...]

1. Germany is the underdog and thus the German players will be all the more motivated. The team has nothing to lose. Throughout the course of this tournament the favorite has always faced greater pressure and has played cautiously… almost always to their peril.
2. The German team has the quality up front [...]

 
If there’s one thing highlight videos are lacking then it’s diversity. They really only ever contain a few slick moves and beautiful goals and nothing else. Thus I was positively surprised to see this one completely focusing on a coach for a change. Enjoy more than seven minutes of Jogi Löw during the match against [...]

The 2008 European Championships co-hosted by Switzerland/Austria has a special meaning for Germany. It was after all the Swiss who Germany first played in 1908. It was the Swiss FA who championed Germany’s re-entry into FIFA after the war, and it was arguably the 1954 World Cup (in Switzerland) where the young Federal Republic was [...]

 
Bastian Schweinsteiger was involved in all six of Germany’s goals in the last two encounters between Germany and Scolari’s Portugal. So hats off to Scolari for this gesture.

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 [...]

This feature is long over due. Marko Marin is a 19 year old youngster playing for Borussia Mönchengladbach. He debuted in the Bundesliga late in the 2006/2007 season. He came on as a substitute in a game against Eintracht Frankfurt and crowned his cameo with an assist, which helped Gladbach to a last minute 1-1 [...]

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

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