What next for German football?

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What next for German football?

Triple-crown at youth level

It is understandable that the Under-21 Uropean championship might have been overshadowed by the Conferderations Cup and the record-breaking transfers of world best footballers Kaka and Ronaldo to Real Madrid so to those who did not know it, Germany won the championship for the first time. Their commanding 4-0 victory against England saw them become the ninth nation to lift the coveted trophy as well as completing the historic hat-trick of age-group titles.

This may be the first time Germany cruised to victory at this level, but they achived more success at other levels and currently hold the U17 and U19 crowns.

That leads us to ask what the future lies for German football?

The current situation

This decade witnessed a sharp decline of German football at both club and international level. At club level, the triumphant of FC bayern munich against Manchester United in the Chapions League in 2001 was the last time any German side proudly lifted a European Cup.

At international level, depiste a fairly successful campaign on home soil, finishing third in World Cup 2006 and slotting a place in European Chapionship in 2008, the German side never looked unbeatable like the good old one of the 70s and 90s.

At club level, Bundesliga can't match the financial muscle of Premiership League and at international level, Germany suffered a detrimental shortage of world-class players. Of course, this is partly due to the injury crisis that plagued young generations. One has to remember Sebastian Deisler, who was one of the brightest footballers and human-beings that Germany ever produce but his career was nothing but a deeply tragic story. In the 90s, Germany was able to to churn out talents that the world were desparate to sign. Serie A the leading league at the time were more than willing to lavish big cash for players such as Andreas Moller, Matthias Sammer, Thomas Doll, Lothar Matthaus, Juergen Klinsmann, Stefan Reuter, Juergen Kohler, Oliver Bierhoff, Christian Ziege or Jorge Heinrich.

Nowadays, not many big footballers emergered from within the German border and many including Beckenbaur have said again and again the only truly world-class player Germany now possess is Michael Ballack who will be 34 year-old for the next World Cup in South Africa.

The way Germany has gone

Despite not able to match success of other leading nations at youth level, Germany achieved a lot more at official tournaments winning 3 World Cups and 3 European Championship. We have seen enough youngsters who were hailed to be the next Beckenbuer or Matthaus turned out to be pure big-flogs. Several U21 players played about 20 or 30 Bundesliga games and then suddenly disappeared. But one has to admit that you cant be a world star overnight and that talents must be nurtured, in most cases, from a very young age.

After winning the U-17 tournament at Magdeburg after extra-time in May coach Horst Hrubesch talked up the youth system in the country. Hrubesch claimed "We have many fine young players and credit to the German Football Association who have invested to improve the situation. There is great co-operation between the FA, the smaller regional FAs, the clubs and the Bundesliga. The result is bright, young, talented players for the future."

Last July, Germany claimed her first ever the U-19 European title with a 3-1 win over Italy in the Czech Republic. Hrubesch was coach then and then again, called upon to lead his country to the U-21 tournament in Sweden, again he lived up the the expectation. While having not the best spectecular side individually and collectively they only managed to qualify to the final in the very very last second, Germany duly rose to the occasions elimiating favourites first Italy and then England.

Starting from the 1960s and early 1970s, Germany introduced a guest worker programme to bring in temporary workers but not allowed settlement. But when the government stopped the programme, Germany has the highest immigration in Europe of roughly 9 millions people. Yet Germany buried her head under the sand and until 1998 the year that France won the World Cup with several players of ethnic background such as Zinedine Zidane, Makelele or Marcell Desailly , all major political parties denied that Germany is a country of immigration. Over 10 years since, and when Germany taps to all its its resource, selecting talents by nothing else but merits, at all levels, Germany team is as diverse as any other countries. Team manager Oliver Bierhoff stressed "We have often emphasised how much we like to welcome many players with backgrounds of immigration into the Germany national team. This reflects the development of society in our country".

The long but may be incomplete list reads as follows:
U21: Dennis Aogo, Andreas Beck, Jerome Boateng, Sebastian Boenisch, Änis Ben-Hatira, Gonzalo Castro, Fabian Johnson, Sami Khedira, Mesut Özil, Ashkan Dejagah, Chinedu Ede, Marko Marin.
U19: Nils Teixeira, Lewis Holtby, Richard Sukuta-Pasu.
U17: Bienvenue Basala-Mazana, Reinhold Yabo, Abu-Bakarr Kargbo, Yunus Malli.

What next for German football?

Many young players have played a major role for their Bundesliga clubs like Ozil, Marin and Boenichs at Bremen, Aogo and Boateng at Hamburg or Neuer and Howedes at Schalke and hopefully we will see a German team win a European Cup soon. A lot of them were scouted and fled the country for fresh challenge. Buchtmann and Nsereko now are contracted at Liverpool and West Ham respectively. Germany’s export industry could be on the up once again.

We can imagine some of these players will one day play for the national side and the future will be bright for Germany. Looking at the next World Cup, when Michael Ballack will be back or one last attempt for glory, few could be selected. Andreas Beck will be likely to play right-back, Howedes or Boateng could pair with Mertersacker and Neuer would challenge his seniors for a place between the posts.

To be honest, the German sides have some problems. Collectively they are the best team but may lack some individual brriliance. They adapt to new tactic excellently, just like in the final against England and are able run with unbelivevable energy yet lacks some imagination and relied too much on one Ozil to produce the creative edge. The bright side is like the old winning German team, they was able to rise to occasions. They also have strongest mentality and determination, defeated the oustanding Italians, the team their predecessors even on the best day were unable to do.

[Klinsmann18]

Nguyên văn bởi Kevin

At club level, the triumphant of FC bayern munich against Manchester United in the Chapions League in 2001 was the last time any German side proudly lifted a European Cup.

Năm đó BM thắng Valencia trong loạt sút luân lưu. Anh viết hay lắm, cảm ơn!

[lupin5]

thx anh Kevin.
very nice post!
mà cái list của anh nên cho Toni Kroos vào nhỉ? nó đá vòng loại cho U21 mà tiếc thay đến vòng ckết nó ko được gọi

[petern]

Anh Kevin viết bài dài mà lại tiếng Anh không!?
Cái này đem lên đăng mấy diễn đàn nước ngoài đc đó

[huynq77]

Bao giờ cho đến ngày xưa nhỉ? cái ngày mà Đức vô địch thế giới (Italia90) với đội hình toàn cầu thủ gốc Đức, ngoại trừ Pierre Littbarski có vài % dòng máu Ba Lan. Đội hình U21 Đức bây giờ nhộm nhoạm quá có tới 5-6 cầu thủ gốc Phi, mât hết cả chất Đức. Chán thật!
PS: Tôi không phải là người phân biệt chủng tộc

[CEMO]

Anh Lu ko đọc đoạn trên ạ (Anh đừng nói ko đọc được tiếng Anh đấy )? List "players with foreign background" đấy.

[ditah8884]

Ko phải bà con trong diễn đàn mình ko đọc đc tiếng Anh,nếu ko đọc đc trôi chảy thì tra từ điển,ít nhiều gì cũng biết nội dung.Nhưng mình là người Việt,diễn đàn Việt thì nên viết bằng chữ Việt của mình chứ.Anh Kevin gì đấy có công sưu tầm bài viết hay của ngoại quốc là điều đáng hoan nghênh,nhưng theo tiểu đệ thấy anh Kevin chịu khó làm thêm 1 bài dịch sang tiếng Việt nữa thì còn đáng hoan nghênh hơn nữa.

[Bastitung]

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[lupin5]

Nguyên văn bởi CEMO

Anh Lu ko đọc đoạn trên ạ (Anh đừng nói ko đọc được tiếng Anh đấy )? List "players with foreign background" đấy.

có đọc hết chứ...mà lúc đọc xong roài 1 hồi sau mí post nên chỉ để ý cái list

[Kevin]

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Despite not able to match success of other leading nations at youth level, Germany achieved a lot more at official tournaments winning 3 World Cups and 3 European Championship. We have seen enough youngsters who were hailed to be the next Beckenbuer or Matthaus turned out to be pure big-flogs. Several U21 players played about 20 or 30 Bundesliga games and then suddenly disappeared. But one has to admit that you cant be a world star overnight and that talents must be nurtured, in most cases, from a very young age.

Hôm qua mới thấy Uli viết trong đó cũng nói

Of course you can't tell how many players from those successful Under-17s, Under-19s and Under-21s will really break through and one day significantly help the senior side or their club teams. (I mean, let's see how many names from the starting XI of the Under-16 team which became European Champions in 1992 ring a bell: Wieland, Hahn, Fensch, Wildmann, Bochtler, Lehmann, Hinz, Rattkowski, Ricken, Michalke and Bettenstaedt.)

Nói chung là cha Ui này lúc nào cũng có thông tin hoặc là nhìn nhận rất hay
Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger on the rewards of winning mentality - Europe - ESPN Soccernet