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…
The Squad for the Ukraine and the Netherlands
Next week we see the Nationalmannschaft in two rather tasty-looking fixtures: away in Kiev against Euro 2012 co-hosts the Ukraine and then what should should be a classic at Hamburg’s AWD Arena against old rivals the Netherlands – twenty-three years
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
Squad for Turkey and Belgium
The qualifying round for the 2012 European Championship is almost at an end, as Joachim Löw’s side finish off their campaign with fixtures in Turkey and at home to Belgium. While the Mannschaft have safely qualified for next year’s finals
Punditry and Predictions
The day after the Austria match I posted my match overview where I touched on player ratings, highlighting three individuals: Mesut Özil, Thomas Müller and Mirosolav Klose. Today Kicker Online published its post-match analysis which includes player ratings, and guess
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
Gómez out, new home kit officially announced…
While the Philipp Lahm story continues with yet more snapshot excerpts from the tabloid Bild, the mundane business of football goes on – and with it the news that Mario Gómez has had to pull out of the national team
Back to business… The squads for Austria and Poland
After the media blow-up that was the Philipp Lahm saga, it’s back to business today with the just-released squad list for the European Championship qualifier against Austria (2nd September) in Gelsenkirchen and the friendly international against Poland (6th September) in
The Götzinho Show
I am trying something new for the blog this season whenever I can – the “as it happened” match report as opposed to an after-the-event piece. The aim is to try and get the report to have a bit more
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
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