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Wow. If Barca had got 1away goal. It would have been symetry.
Great job by Dortmund.
or if Hummel hadn't given it away :(
So far Germany beats Spain 8-1 :eek:
Ronaldo: "I'll see you at the finals"
Messi: "your house or mine?"
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There was a report in Der Sport Bild about a month ago, which suggested that a decade ago, the DFB wanted to learn lessons from both the EPL and La Liga about how the game was played in both England and Spain and then develop a system of coaching techniques from that. Here was are a decade later, with a lot of players who have moved between leagues; taking what they learnt with them and I'm wondering if the theory is correct?Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Does German football now combine the physicality of English football of a decade ago with the technical flair that Spanish football had? The German national team hasn't won a tournament since 1996 and so I guess something had to give.
I'm really glad BVB won this one but it looks like the end of this great team. Gotze is going to Bayern next season :( and it seems Lewandoski is going to leave too.
Well even when Germany had a crappy team that even lost to England 5-1 they still got to the World Cup final. So now they have great players they should be expecting great things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
The roots of today's team go back to the early naughts. After the utter clobbering we took delivery of at the 2000 Euro with a team full of geriatric players who had all the grace and finesse of a flock of hippo's, the DFB (German FA) decided it was time for a restart. First of all they got rid of arse-backwards coaches like Bertie Voigts and Erich Ribbeck, handing the duty over to the next generation, namely Rudi Völler. When they wanted to rebuild the Nationalelf, they realized that we don't have many emerging talents that can play their way out of a paperbag. The Bundesliga was dominated by foreign players resulting in travesties, like Cottbus fielding a starting team with not a single German on the pitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
As a result massive efforts were undertaken to build a youth program. Every Bundesliga Club has to have a youth training center. In the process integration of immigrants was pushed as well, leading to the result that with Klose, Podolski, Kedhira, Özil, Boateng, Aogo, Owomoyela, Cacau quite a few foreign born players or children of foreign born parents were in the lineup of the national team in recent years.
Things started to pay off around 2008/2009 and today we have myriads of well-educated young players and teams have the luxury of fielding German players actually. Also due to the young training system, which is by now probably one of the best and most sophisticated in the world, players start to emerge to the top league earlier. Marc-André ter Stegen, goalie of Mönchengladbach has been their undisputed number one since age 19. Schalke's star midfielder Draxler had to get special excemption from school to be able to take part in late-night Europa League games, because he was only 17 at the time. With Thomas Müller, Toni Kroos, Mezut Özil, Ron Robert Zieler, Marco Reus, Mario Götze, Sven Bender, André Schürrle, İlkay Gündoğan, Patrick Hermann half the current squad is under 25 and a direct result of the massive investments into the youth departments all over Germanyland.
As part of this push for new talent, technical ability was pushed as well. In the 90's and early naughts, the style of the German team was often referred to as Rumpelfussball (klutz football), while the new generation is tactically well educated and can handle a ball without falling over it.