The Netherlands and Germany played to a scoreless draw in yesterday evening’s international friendly at the sold-out Amsterdam Arena Stadium.
What could have been a very exciting match, instead became a match that neither team wanted to lose – it seemed more like an contractual obligation which was signed last year than a game to really measure footballing quality.
It was in some aspects [...] Continue Reading…
Dutch coach van Gaal has announced his provisional 34-man squad for the upcoming international friendly against Germany tomorrow Wednesday 14th November which will be held at the Amsterdam Arena.
He has opted to include Ajax’s left-back Daley Blind, following his recent run of good form, while the Vitesse ‘wunderkind ‘Marco van Ginkel has also made the team.
The best Dutch goalkeeper, Tim Krul ,is [...] Continue Reading…
Swedes may be disappointed, embarrassed and even feel hatred towards the Swedish government over their complete and utter opportunism in the case regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
However Swedes will have the complete opposite feelings for their national football team who surprised and delighted the whole nation!
It was to be Germany’s northern neighbour who took on Germany yesterday evening – Sweden vs Germany at Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
The German national football team won their 3rd qualifier in their 2014 World Cup European group match in Dublin against Ireland this last Friday.
Compared to the 2-1 win against Austria in Vienna coach Joachim Loew brought to the game in Dublin Boateng, Mertesacker and Schweinsteiger for the yellow-locked Lahm, the injured Hummels and Kroos. Schweinsteiger led the team as captain on the [...] Continue Reading…
Hamburg got its very first season win and it was a glorious affair – for Hamburg fans in any case and they have not had much to cheer about recently.
Last week they put up a brave 2nd half with only ten men and nearly tied Eintracht Frankfurt but ended up losing.
The other Hamburg team Fußball-Club St. Pauli which was relegated to the [...] Continue Reading…
The runners-up team of last season’s Champions League – who lost on the slimmest of margins to Chelsea – the German team Bayern München won their opening fixture 2-1 over Valencia at their Allianz Arena.
They thereby became the 3rd German team to open their CL qualifying games with a win – they are Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern München.
All 3 [...] Continue Reading…
Joachim Löw had earlier warned his team that they would be in for a good game against Austria in their World Cup qualifier- and by all accounts and on all fronts – he got one!
German fans had to be very patient though Germany scored 2 goals – but using just 3 chances and –as is the German footballers historical wont – to [...] Continue Reading…
Everyone knew before the game what the outcome would be – the question was only by how many goals Germany would beat the Faroe Islands.
In Hanover earlier this evening Germany should have beat the Faroe Islands by at least 6 goals – but did not. Put it down to poor finishing or just really excellent goalkeeping from the Faro keeper Gunnar Nielsen [...] Continue Reading…
The fiftieth anniversary season of the German Bundesliga -which was founded in 1963 – started this weekend with Bayern München making an immediate positive impression.
With impressive performances from new signings Mario Mandzukic, Xherdan Shaqiri and world class Dutch star Arjen Robben seemingly back in form, it seems under their new general sports director Matthias Sammer, that Bayern München have made the correct signings [...] Continue Reading…
The president of the German football Association, DFB/Deutsche Fußball-Bund- Wolfgang Niersbach – has said that his federation is shocked and disappointed by the corruption scandal surrounding FIFA along with being unpleasantly surprised at the way FIFA has reacted to it.http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16098346,00.html
Allegations of graft , payoffs to influence illegal activity, and charges of the giving of corrupting gifts and corporate enticements go back at least [...] Continue Reading…
Germany coach Joachim Löw will assemble back together many German players for this evening’s international friendly against Israel in Leipzig.
Key German players who missed Germany’s shock 5-3 defeat to Switzerland on Saturday will be playing this evening. They include Philipp Lahm, Manuel Neuer, Jerome Boateng, Holger Badstuber, Jerome Boateng, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mario Gomez all Bayern München players who [...] Continue Reading…
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