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 [...]

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 [...]

Allright, folks. It’s that special time of the year again. No. Not March Madness. No. Not Playoff Season. It’s the time of meaningless friendliess again. But this one ain’t so meaningless.

Dear fellas, here’s my very first blog entry. It’s about a country’s Mannschaft, that fell apart, got their act together, fell apart again, got their act together again and so on. The question is: Are we again falling apart or are we finally getting our act together?
Sometimes it really sucks being a fan of this [...]

One of the few quality German strikers in recent years, Miroslav Klose, suffered a potential Budesliga season-ending injury during Bremen’s shocking 3-1 loss to 3rd division side, St. Pauli in the quarterfinals of the German Federation Cup. Klose scored 5 goals in 7 games in the last World Cup.

Update: Looks like his injury [...]

1 GK LEHMANN Jens – (Arsenal, ENG)
2 DF JANSEN Marcell – (Borussia Moenchengladbach, GER)
3 DF FRIEDRICH Arne – (Hertha Berlin, GER)
4 DF HUTH Robert – (Chelsea, ENG)
5 MF KEHL Sebastian – (Borussia Dortmund, GER)
6 DF NOWOTNY Jens – (Bayer Leverkusen, GER)
7 MF SCHWEINSTEIGER Bastian – (Bayern Munich, GER)
8 MF FRINGS Torsten – (Werder Bremen, GER)
9 [...]

Fact: Germany is tied with Brazil for most top two finishes in World Cup history (7). And because the 1950 World Cup in Brazil finished with a round robin rather than with ‘knock-out’ rounds, Germany has actually appeared in more championship games than Brazil.
Opinion: Germany and Brazil will stage a rematch of last year’s final, [...]