Not sure if it would have been a successful tournament for Germany in 2010 if Ballack would have been available. Löw was forced to bring other players, especially Khedira. Nobody really expected a lot from that inexperienced German team but they pulled off some of the most exciting performances in years, especially against England and Argentina. Regarding things supposedly going Germanys way I would also like to add that they played the World Cups 1982 and 1986 without their best player at that time, Bernd Schuster. But even without him they made it to both finals. Not sure if he would have made a decisive difference to win one of those two finals but it would have been much more difficult for Italy and Argentina to beat Germany.

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Yes that's right. The only thing I wouldn't agree with in this video is his judgement oń the course of the tournament in Italia '90. Germany didn't cruise to the semifinals. They faced the then-European Champions Netherlands, a magnificent team around Rijkard, Gullit, van Basten in the round of sixteen.This match is still one of the most notorious and ill-fated in worldcup history. That was certainly not plain sailing. Apart from that Germany lost Völler already in the first half of the semis due to injury and had to bring on Thon and Hässler because Littbarski and Bein were declared unfit. After injury Hässler wasn't able to go fulltime, let alone extra time. So they had their problems too. Nevertheless, this takes nothing away from a great match and a great english side. A match that will be remembered for a long time coming. And what a climax it had! Can it get any better than that?

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Well to be fair. 2002 was purely lucky that we got to the finals. Only Kahn and Ballack were world class. From 2010 - 2016 tho was a gold generation. One of the best teams to win a world cup.

@@Japhu I would argue also Bernd Schneider being world class in 2002. Probably the most underrated German player in the history. But yeah 2002 was lucky and they played a great final, too. If Kahn hadn't made the mistake, who knows what would have happened. I agree that the 2014 team is one of the best ever to win a World Cup.

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Once upon a time...long gone now...Lineker was absolutely right. Nowadays we, the german people prefer watching our womens team playing. They are so good and the men are playing way to rubbishly.

I've recently seen a 25 year old documentary about the 1990WC. Völler missed the semi final because he was sent off vs Holland for being spat upon (yeah, that happened), but he was one of the 5 designated shooters for the penalties. So Beckenbauer asked Riedle instead to go first. He said that when Riedle scored, he knew Germany would win, because all the other 4 had a perfect record and never missed during training. His only concern was Illgner in goal who for all his qualities couldn't save penalties to save his life, so he hoped that someone would miss or accidentally hit Illgner...which is what happened.

Penalties against England are easy. The English are great belivers in tradition after all :D

Well, you're riight, german sides are usually well prepared. But in '90... that was a match on a knifes edge. And penalties - Illgner was certainly no penalty-killer. Even Franz Beckenbauer later admitted that he feared a shootout during the tournament. They "survived" the semifinals, but that wasn't a foregone conclusion.

Gödeke Michels now in 2018 Germany went out at the group stage and England won a penalty shoot out… twice in competition… you spoke too soon

Taylor As he said all teams have their ups and downs. Still their footballing history far outshines England‘s. They will be back.

+apsarator I thought they don't like the French the most?

+U WE Everybody hates the French, and APSARATOR is wrong, the second worldwar was a long time ago.nobody hates this German soccer machine, they play nice, good and impressive football and even i "from holland " cant denie that they where awesome!!!

+apsarator Lineker is awesome! I wish we had someone like him in Germany. I really like the English, but you guys fail to make your own people happy(football wise). Let's hope for a Germany vs. England-Final in 2018.

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In sports the English do not hate the Germans, Maradona cheated England with the Goal of the Hand only the Goal that Eludes the players six English players as Individual Goal, but unfortunately the Goal Realized in the Pes 2015 the Pes 6 in level ultra Hard is better for the English than the goal of Maradona. Argentina will win worlds with one player for each State, we are sure of that and with a collective game to England.

+MWcrazyhorse I agree in most parts. I am german myself but try to look at things from an objective point of view. 1) Enlang need to get off thier high horse. Just because they're the self proclaimed motherland of football (the game was actually invented in china) doesn't mean a thing. Ok, they won in 66 and were unlucky to lose in penalties in 90 but apart from that they've never really played a role an world cups. 2) Why is Germany better than England on an international level? Quite simple. While on club level we might not be able to compete, with the exception of Bayern Munich, we are superior to England on the international level and have been for a long time. We have an amazing youth system and a high number of our youth players play first team football in the the Bundesliga or abroad. 3) Following up. After the more or less catastrophical era from 1998 - 2004 (2002 Final? No Idea how we made that one) we radically rethought our system, built up youth academys and went new ways. It took us 2!! years to form a winning squad. We played amazing Foootball at the confederations cup 2005 and the WC 2006. And then came the masterpiece. Klinsmann left and we got Löw. A Tactical Genius with a masterplan. Since 2006 we've made the minium the semi of every major tournament. Our tally since 2006: WC: 2 3rd places & 1 Win EC: 1 2nd place & one shared 3rd. So, I do not mean to gloat but looking at us over the course of the last decades we rack up a tally scond to none. Most final apps. Most semis, most thirds etc. Yes, some of that was undeserved, lucky and just plain horrible to watch but what seperates us from the rest of the European power houses and the south americans is one thing and one thing alone: We're not and have never been the best techinal side, we'Ve only been playing attractive footbal fr the last 8 Years. What makes us THE team that nobady wants to play and everybody is afraid of, is the fact the we go into to a game, a tournament with one goal: we win! No matter how or why but we win. We've won games and championschips we should'Ve lost soley becasue of that. In closing. The 4:1 thumping in 2010 England got, and it could'Ve been much higher, should've been a wake up call to change things. What has happend since then? Even less U21 players in the PL team starting 11, even less english players in the starting 11. The PL can Spend as much money as they want, they might be the better league but if that püolicy continues England won't win a title in the next 50 years and that would, if I were an england supporter, frustrate the hell out of me becasue they actually have the players and the coaches neccesary to achieve that! Fine you beat us 5:1 in Munich and 1:0 in the Euro 2004. What have you got to show for it and what we until now? Here's to the hope that England may once again become the rival we played in so many epic games!

+Jay Ohlrogge 2002 final was because half german squad was composed from Bayer Liverkusen players who just played a CL final against RM! As for the Euro 2004 i think England played in the same group as France not Germany!

jalal almaai You are correct. I was thinking of the 2000 Euro in the group with Romania and the Czech. Republic. In regards to 2002, I would mostly agree with your short assesment!

Jay Ohlrogge Yeah, and talking about the 2002 performance, i think 50% of the success goes to Bayer Liverkusen players's CL performance and the remaining 50% are for the great Oliver Kahn's magnanimus contribution! he was simply outstanding in that WC!

+jalal almaai Agreed!

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LMAO... oh how times have changed.

WoodssM32 yeaaa huh dang germany I missed germany in the semi

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@@daniacastro2126 I missed England winning shit

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Germany was not reunified when the WC 1990 was played. The iron curtain was down but reunification took place on October 3, so a few months later. The game itself was pretty close, with some post hits on both sides. Going to penalties reflected that and then it was just about finest margins: how confident are the players taking the shot? How good are the GK in penalties? And the German players were extremely relaxed and confident. Green as the color for their away shirts was actually chosen because after WW2 Ireland was the first country willing to play against Germany, so the color was chosen as a nod to the Irish.

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Löw was the reason for 2018. That Germany won 2014 was thanks to Klinsmann, not Löw. Löw took over what was a great team and it went down hill from there.

Germany is England's arch nemesis in football. They want to have the success that Germany had. So it's likely pure jealousy, because deminishing the success of others that you actually want to have yourself, is a common behaviour when jealous. On the other hand England is for Germany what Leicester City is for ManU , it's respected, but nothing special.

Here's another German saying: a good horse jumps just as high as necessary. Means that winning is important, regardless if you're one goal up, two, three or four. If you are two up it is of course more relaxed but e.g. during the 2014 game against France I never felt that Germany could lose.

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🎯🎯🎯 Fully agree. Never understood why they don't fight under the Union Jack anymore. In 1966 the teams were on complete eye sight. A wonderful match. THE Classic!