Tag: Germany

Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neuer will miss the rest of the season after breaking his leg while skiing

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Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will be out for the rest of the season after breaking his leg while skiing. And the 36-year-old, who represented Germany at the World Cup in Qatar during their exit from the group stage, published the news of his injury on social media. Neuer confirmed that he will be out for the remainder of 2022-23 after undergoing fracture surgery. Go deeper A ‘party two nights a week’ clause, a space travel ban and a speculative England call-up bonus: What’s really written in a footballer’s contract?…

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The World Cup renaissance of number 9 – why is it happening and is it here to stay?

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Take a look at this list of leading scorers in this World Cup and you’ll notice a mixture of playing styles and roles: Kylian Mbappe, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka, wing-swingers; Alvaro Morata, Olivier Giroud and Ener Valencia, classic No. 9; Richarlison, winger turned centre-forward. At the World Cup, we tend to look for trends – the tournament every four years watched by millions is an opportunity to gauge where the global game is. In Qatar, we’ve seen all kinds of forward play, but the renaissance of forwards being used…

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Germany’s sporting director Oliver Bierhoff has resigned after the early exit from the World Cup

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Oliver Bierhoff, director of the German national teams and academy, has resigned from all positions with immediate effect. Bierhoff, winner of the 1996 European Championships with Germany and former Milan striker, has been working for the German Football Association since 2004, when he became manager of the national team along with coach Jurgen Klinsmann. “I told DFB President Bernd Neuendorf of my decision today,” the 54-year-old wrote in a personal statement. “I am paving the way to prepare a new path.” Bierhoff was instrumental in building the €150 million DFB…

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Serge Gnabry: Why Germany’s World Cup star hasn’t arrived at West Bromwich Albion

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Please point out any gaps in your employment history. It’s an embarrassing question for Serge Gnabry, for him those gaps relate to the 2015-16 season, when he was on loan from Arsenal at West Bromwich Albion. He made his debut in August at home against Chelsea, three games into the season and a month after he turned 20, coming on for 12 minutes at the end of a 3-2 Premier League defeat. All goals had already been scored by the time he scored. Then he played in the League Cup…

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How Mesut Ozil fell into the crossfire of the “moral hypocrisy” dispute in Germany

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Mesut Ozil has not been called up by national team manager Hansi Flick for the World Cup, but he will be in Qatar this week. The former Germany and Arsenal midfielder – who won the 2014 World Cup – is traveling to the Gulf to watch some matches in his personal capacity. However, Ozil, Currently in Istanbul Basaksehir, it has A surprise of sorts has already appeared at this tournament: during Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Spain, dozens of Qataris and spectators in an assortment of national team jerseys held up…

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Stephanie Frappart becomes the first woman to referee a World Cup

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Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to take charge of a match at a men’s FIFA World Cup™. The French official will take charge of the group stage match between Costa Rica and Germany on December 1. And, in the process, she will become the first woman to take charge of a World Cup match in the tournament’s 92-year history. It is not Frappart’s first record. In 2021, she became the first woman to officiate a men’s World Cup qualifier, when she took charge of the Netherlands against Latvia.…

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Hansi Flick praises German player Niklas Volkrug: ‘He has heart – and has shown how to smash goals’

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Hansi Flick has praised newcomer Niklas Volkrog after his late goal saved a 1-1 draw against Spain and boosted Germany’s hopes of avoiding an early exit from the World Cup. Alvaro Morata’s 62nd-minute equalizer had put Germany – who were knocked out at the group stage in 2018 – in greater danger after their opening loss to Japan, but substitute Volkrug blasted in an 83rd-minute equalizer which made the picture better. If Germany beat Costa Rica on Thursday and Japan lose to Spain, Germany will automatically qualify – but other…

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World Cup shocks: Do group-stage surprises make the World Cup less enjoyable?

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The opening week of the 2022 World Cup has been a mixed bag, and generally hard to describe. There were an alarming number of goalless draws, and two knocks by England and Spain. But the most memorable so far were two real surprises, both similar in nature. Saudi Arabia and Japan inflicted 2-1 defeats on Argentina and Germany respectively, both of whom were trailing 1-0 at half-time. Both are, without a doubt, the most legendary World Cup victories in the history of these two nations. All this inevitably fueled the…

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It wasn’t pleasant: Germany hopes a tough team meeting will save the World Cup

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You can see the layout put in by Kai Havertz (Chelsea) and Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund) on the stand at Friday’s press conference. Both are good friends from their joint time at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and often joke together in front of the press. The DFB must have thought some good vibes would not go wrong after the disastrous 2-1 opening defeat to Japan. In addition, Brandt was only tangentially involved in the 2018 World Cup debacle – the attacking midfielder came in as a minor role three times –…

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So Germany, what the hell happened?

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There were many different answers in the Germany section of the mixed zone at Khalifa International Stadium, but the question was always the same: what the hell happened there? Playing badly and losing is one thing. You get what you deserve, and you move on. Playing well – or at least well enough – for three-quarters of the match to win it but somehow finding yourself in a ‘horror scenario’ at the final whistle is, as Thomas Müller puts it, very difficult to do. This was the worst kind of…

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