Following the exclusion earlier this week of VfL Wolfsburg striker Max Kruse from the national squad, there’s more bad news for Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw. Having just returned to full fitness after an earlier injury, it was revealed that skipper Bastian
I suppose I should have called it when writing my last team preview piece ahead of the coming week’s international friendlies against England and Italy, but the squad of twenty-seven players in Jogi Löw’s squad has now been cut back
After a long break over the winter, the international season starts again with two prestige friendlies as Die Nationalmannschaft start to build towards this year’s Euro finals. Old rivals and fellow tournament finalists England and Italy provide the opposition for
The first month of 2016 is almost over, and there are less than five months before this year’s European Championship finals start in France. After a topsy-turvy and at times painful qualifying campaign, Joachim Löw’s Mannschaft booked their place at
In 2012, Germany were thrown together with Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark in what was widely described as the “Group of Death”. In the buildup towards the Euro 2016 draw in Paris there had been the usual fears of ending
Usually I release the minute by minute match report a few hours after the end of the match. Barring a few edits and typo corrections, it is usually ready to go. Things were a little different after the game in
Football kit design has moved on a lot from the heavy and slightly itchy shirts of the 1980s, and these days there is as much emphasis on fashion as there is on practicality and – perhaps even more important for
Ahead of Germany’s up and coming prestige close of the year friendlies against France and the Netherlands, the new home Trikot has been revealed with the usual media fanfare. In contrast to the current version, it is something of a
After a strange 2015 that saw the Nationalmannschaft clinch their place in next year’s European Championship finals on the last day of their qualifying campaign, they close out the year with two prestige friendlies. First up are Euro 2016 hosts
When the draw for this qualifying group was made back in 2014, nobody would have thought it would come to this. On the tenth and final match day, World Champions Germany are still not sure of an automatic place in
One more win will secure Germany’s place in the Euro 2016 finals next year in France, and tonight the Nationalmannschaft take on an injury-hit Republic of Ireland in Dublin. Bastian Schweinsteiger is a late omission for Joachim Löw’s side as
The qualifying phase for next year’s European Championships come to an end with the final pair of matches, with the Nationalmannschaft looking to close out what has been an at times fraught campaign with six more points against the Republic