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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Germany 1 – 2 England, Berlin, 19 November 2008 – Match of the Week

25 Monday Feb 2013

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Featured old match for this week is the November 2008 friendly between Germany and England in Berlin, which resulted in a 2-1 win for the visitors, the only time as Bundestrainer Jogi has lost to England.

Germany 1 – 2 England

Amongst the usual reports and photographs, this page also covers the weeks leading up to the match, including the apologies from Ballack and Frings, and the announcement of Jogi’s three-year contract with travel company Tui.

And his other matches against England? Two victories of course!

The 2-1 win at Wembley in 2007 and the famous World Cup 2010 Achtelfinale !

Enjoy!

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Kazakhstan Revisited

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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Ahead of the two 2014 World Cup Qualifying matches against Kazakhstan next month, I have revised my Match page for the October 2010 Euro 2012 qualifier, adding extra reports, coverage of the press conference and more photographs!

Kazakhstan 0 – 3 Germany, Astana, 12 October 2010

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Magazine Articles Section – additions this week

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Task for this week is to update and add some more Interviews with Jogi to my Magazine Articles section.

First up has been the completion of the Mobil interview from 2011.

And today I have added the Der Spiegel interview from earlier this month.

Unsurprisingly, the parts of the interview considered worthy of reproduction by the online media were the comments about Pep Guardiola and the strength in depth required in the German squad.

Also worthy of comment from the rest of the article, however, was his answer about his alleged’disappearing’ and not making himself accountable after the Euro 2012 exit. This belief I have also read on occasions, and been somewhat annoyed by, over the past months. As Jogi points out in the interview, not only did he attend the usual post-match UEFA press conference and TV interviews, but also held a press conference actually on the flight home (a disgraceful imposition, in my opinion), and then again when landing back in Germany, all of which were fully covered by me at the time and are now in my June Archive.

Let us now move a little further down the article and read about his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro!

“Then I set myself a goal. Okay. Ten steps. Try it again now. Ten steps. And then another ten. In between I stand almost asleep despite a pulse of 180, completely exhausted and wet with sweat.”

Totally inspiring and I, for one, afford him my complete admiration for such an inspiring achievement!

On my ‘waiting list’ to be added next are the interview by Monica Lierhaus last year, a Sport-Bild feature with Angela Merkel, plus a Stern interview from 2008.

I am always looking for interviews to upload, especially those that don’t appear anywhere online, so do let me know of anything else I can include!

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Jogi Löw muss neue Reize setzen | 11 Freunde

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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My response:

Do the German press actually realise that the rest of the world (yes, and that includes old-enemies such as England and the Netherlands) hold both Joachim Löw and the German team in high esteem and a model to aspire to.

Yet within your own country (and I was in Germany in July 2012 so I saw the full backlash), you seem intent to continue to find problems where there aren’t any (a little bit of tweaking required, yes, but the team in a mess, no way), probably with the aim of selling newspapers and creating storylines.

Do you have the good of the national team, and its fine blend of young multi-cultural role-models that put your country in such a glowing light truly at heart. Deep down I really doubt it.

Jogi Löw muss neue Reize setzen | 11 Freunde.

And I see the ‘comments’ section contains the usual personal stuff which it would appear the average German football supporter seems unable to refrain from using to stress their point. That is to your detriment, not Joachim Lèw’s.

If you need to insult someone (or at least what you, in your small-minded way, believe is an insult), in order to put forward your opinion about them as a professional, you are either incapable of expressing yourself, or you don’t have a point to express in the first place. I’ll leave each poster to work out which applies in their individual case.

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France v Germany, 6 February 2013

01 Friday Feb 2013

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All the pre-match news and build-up to Wednesday’s friendly can now be found on my new ‘France’ page:

France v Germany

Call back after the game for full reports, quotes and of course photographs!

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