Time for some latest news on the team for the friendly against the Ukraine in Kyiv this coming Friday, and the bad news that noth Miroslav Klose and Marco Reus are both out of the running. While I didn’t actually
Ukraine Update…
Belgium and Blue Sweaters
The final European Championship qualifying fixture against Belgium at Düsseldorf’s Esprit-Arena is just over three hours away now, and is live on ESPN here in the UK which means that all of you lucky readers will get your on-the-spot as-it-happens
Team News Update
As promised, here’s my update on the squad for the up-coming double header against Turkey and Belgium, and my selected lineup. Jogi Löw has made things easy this month by making few changes to the squad selected for the last
Poland: Team News
Having watched the Austria game for a third time this afternoon, I thought I’d keep things up to date with the latest team news for the friendly international against Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland in Danzig/Gdańsk on Tuesday.
Six of the best
With seven wins from seven matches, an eighth three-pointer against Austria would guarantee Germany a place at next year’s Euro 2012 finals in Poland and the Ukraine with two games to spare, and they didn’t disappoint what was a sell-out
Trust the Daily Mail…
September 1st 2001. I was on my way home having spent three weeks travelling around Poland, somewhere between Danzig and Koszalin. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Internet, just a ropey mobile telephone connection to my roving text reporter – my
Squad for Brazil match announced…
Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has today named the twenty-two man squad for the friendly in Stuttgart against Brazil this coming Wednesday, and among the small tweaks there is one new addition – Borussia Dortmund’s new signing from 1. FC Nürnberg, İlkay
Two thirds…
A late and final update on the recent FIFA competitions now, which admittedly went a bit flat after the German women were eliminated in their own tournament by Japan and the Under-17s blew a 2-1 to lose their semi-final to
Seven from seven…
Good evening from the Franconian city of Würzburg (OK, this was written the day after the event), where I have just seen the Nationalmannschaft round off the 2010-2011 season with a solid if unspectacular win against a game yet ineffective
Last-minute drama in Vienna…
I can only get in a short report of this evening’s match in Vienna, as we are off on holiday this evening… Nach Deutschland! Thankfully this evening’s encounter was a case of all’s well that ends well, with Jogi Löw’s
Good evening Vienna…
OK, so we have what looks like a team line-up for tonight’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Austria in Vienna; deprived of the services of Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marco Reus and Miroslav Klose, Jogi Löw is also without defensive midfielder Sami Khedira
Squad Update…
Just checked the Kicker website, and the injury issues are adding up. Neuling Marco Reus is definitely out of the Uruguay game, and given that this was the fixture he might have been looking to start, it is looking unlikely