Latest news: it has been revealed that Miroslav Klose suffered rib contusions following a mid-air clash with Uruguayan ‘keeper Fernando Muslera yesterday, meaning that he is out of the two European Championship qualifying games against Austria and Azerbaijan.
After a busy end to the domestic season, 2010/2011 finally comes to a close for the Nationalmannschaft with a home friendly and two away fixtures – with the aim being to secure all six points and place one foot firmly
Kazakhstan. A country unknown to many, and one that would have been unknown to many more were if not for the film about its allegedly most famous son Borat Sagdaev. A country famous for a weird, peasant-like people, bizarre public
Once again, the Mannschaft has been badly hit with illness and injury when closing in on an important tournament qualifier. With Michael Ballack out for the best part of two months and looking increasingly unlikely to wear the Schwarz und
Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has named his squad for the double header against Turkey and Kazakhstan next week, adding Dortmund winger Kevin Großkreutz to what is essentially an unchanged selection. The same twenty-one players selected for the games against Belgium and
Here is my real-time blog for the game against Azerbaijan, shown live on ESPN as part of their commitment to German football. The game started slowly – and perhaps rather ominously with the substitution of Per Mertesacker – but soon
Azerbaijan, oder. No sketchy report tonight – all of Germany’s home games are being aired on ESPN, so I will be watching the game live and providing my own biased journalistic take on proceedings as they happen. Sort of like
A hard piece of work, but Germany are off and running on the qualification trail for Euro 2012. Thanks to Miroslav Klose’s fifty-third international goal in his 102nd international, three valuable points were secured in Brussels this evening – with
By this time tomorrow, the Mannschaft would have played their first match of the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Belgium – with hopefully three points in the bag. Germany have not lost to the Red Devils in my lifetime, and