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SoccerNewsIssue # 07, July 10th 2014

SoccerNews # 07/2014 2

World Cup insight

Final countdown is running for the DFB team After the magical night with the historic 7-1 triumph over Brazil, Argentina is the last ob-stacle on the road to the fourth World Cup title for the German national team. In the disappointingly colourless second semi-final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™, the Argentinians defeated the Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out after 120 goalless minutes in Sao Paulo. Germany and Argentina will now meet for the third time in a World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday (21:00hrs CEST). In 1986 in Mexico City the South Americans with Diego Maradona won 3-2, four years later the German Football Association (DFB) selection triumphed 1-0 in Rome.

“We will give it our best. Who doesn’t want to win in the final? It will be the most impor-tant match in our careers, for all of us”, said Argentine midfielder Javier Mascherano, look-ing ahead to the encounter in the Maracana Stadium. “Germany are great rivals, they play very well. We will have to attune ourselves to a tough match”, said goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who became the match winner by saving penalties from Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder. Arjen Robben is certain of what his seven team-mates from Bayern Munich will experience on Sunday: “Germany will become World Cup champions. I’m convinced of that. The Argentinians will have no chance“. The

German team watched the match at their base camp in South Bahia, where they had been celebrated by the locals upon their return. (Video-Link Süddeutsche Zeitung: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/herzlicher-empfang-trotz-1.2037941). The 23 players and the coaching staff headed by Joachim Loew watched how two-time World Cup champions Argentina positively toiled to reach the final. The match in no way reached the level of the semi-final in Belo Horizonte on the previous evening, acclaimed around the globe, when the German national team achieved a sen-sational, unique triumph over the World Cup hosts. Brazil and the Netherlands will meet in the “small final” for third place in the capital Brasilia (22:00hrs CSET), a fixture won by the DFB team in 2006 (against Portugal) and 2010 (against Uruguay).

The countdown for the eighth participation in a World Cup final started for the German national team upon their return to Campo Bahia. The basis of the preparations was the mental approach, not to react euphorically on the historic semi-final victory and to remain well grounded. This edict had been circulated after the match in the dressing room at the Stadium Mineiro in Belo Horizonte, and was immediately taken in by the players. “No one should feel invincible”, Loew said. “Our joy is not too ebullient”. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer sketched the kind of thinking prevailing with all players, despite the fantastic 7-1 against the record-winning World Cup champions: “It was outstanding, but we have to be attentive and not be dazzled by the result. We still have that one match to play, and we have to win it”.

Loew ready to discard his incomplete status

The German team were applauded around

the world for their almost perfect perfor-mance, by both the international media as well as experts. Former German national coach Juergen Klinsmann, who had lost 1-0 to Germany with his US team, praised to the skies his former team: “The best ever German appearance at a World Cup final! Simply fantastic! Now go and get the title, Jogi and team!“

The 54-year-old Loew can discard the feeling of “incompletion” on Sunday. It is the fourth time the coach, born in the Black Forest, has led Germany in a major tournament since tak-ing over the helm in August 2006. In 2008 the DFB selection lost the European Champi-onship final to Spain (1-0) under his direction, in 2010 the World Cup semi-final again to Spain (1-0), and in 2012 the European Cham-pionship semis to Italy (2-1). Now the former second division striker with SC Freiburg could win the fourth World Cup title with the German team after 1954, 1974 and 1990.

The national team and captain Philipp Lahm after the historic triumph against Brazil

Tactical planning and fixing the best strategy for the final began when Argentina had been determined as the opponents. The entire team, but also every first eleven player in individual sessions, are being prepared for Argentina with many short video sequences showing not only the strong points and weak-nesses of individual Argentine players but also their tactical team patterns. Set-piece situa-tions (free-kicks and corner-kicks in attacking situations as well as defence), which have been very successful so far, will again be prac-ticed in training from Thursday until Saturday. In addition, they continue to work on the pre-cision of passing.

Mats Hummels, who had been substituted against Brazil at half-time due to an irritated sinew problem, will very possibly be fit to play against Argentina. It may be assumed that Loew will once again decide to send on the same starting eleven as against France and Brazil.


Alejandro Sabella, head coach of the national team of Argentina. Photo: Firo / Augenklick

World Cup insight

Argentina coach Sabella: Contrasting regime to Maradona Four years ago at the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Argentina were still closely linked to the name of their coach, Diego Maradona, who acted like a madman at the side of the pitch, held great speeches and palmed himself off as the ultimate inventor of all footballing tactics. Prior to the 4-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals in Cape Town he took the liberty of making some threats towards the German team. A contrasting programme prevails in the coaching set-up with Germany’s opponents Argentina in the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™.

Alejandro Sabella is the complete opposite to former football idol Maradona. He doesn’t smoke Cuban cigars, doesn’t have a diamond in his earlobe and doesn’t accost alternatively oppo-

nents, journalists or other critics of his work. Sabella appears as nondescript as a civil ser-vant from Buenos Aires. His gaze seems to be sometimes overstrained and helpless when he stands at the sideline. When he speaks about his tactics, it is often not very convincing. But Argentina have reached a final of a FIFA World Cup™ for the first time in 24 years.

Despite Sabella or because of Sabella? That’s the question that triggers a wide range of opinions. But the 59-year-old has led the two-time FIFA World Cup champions into the final again and has outdone their great rivals Brazil. It has been accepted by the very emotional Argentine fans that the “Albiceleste” have jittered their way through one round to the next un-der Sabella. Even the 1-0 win over Iran in the first round was a battle.

Sabella about Messi: “He is the water in the desert”

Sabellas merits lie deeper. He is the first Argentine coach to allow the star of genius Lionel Messi to shine in the national colours, without expense to the team. This task has stuck with him for almost three years since taking over the job in July 2011. His philosophy is that “if Messi feels well, Argentina feel well”, and consequently he hardly misses any op-portunity to praise to the skies the midfield FC Barcelona star. “He is the water in the desert. He finds solutions where there are none“, says Sabella.

One of his first acts at the helm was to catch a flight to Barcelona to announce Messi as his new captain and explain the change to the reigning incumbent, Javier Mascherano, who fittingly also plays with the Catalans. And somehow Sabello persuaded Mascherano to

accept the decision without complaint and remain a stout pillar in the Gauchos’ defence. With Sabella peace has returned to the na-tional team. He appears to have the right touch, perhaps he intuitively makes the right decisions. Nobody really knows. When he de-cided to change his defensive tactics for the opening match against Bosnia-Herzegovina upon pressure by Messi and the other players, it was considered a weakness. But the success speaks for itself. The players praise him for his cooperation. Another advantage was to leave extrovert striker Carlos Tevez at home. It would hardly have been peaceful if the very popular striker of Juventus Turin had been on the bench in Brazil. “Football isn’t just math-ematics. The character of a team is decisive. The balance must be right“, Sabella discloses.

He once got the nickname “el mago” (the magi-cian) at home, but it is probably his tactical skills that have led to the few successes during his still short career as head coach. However, Cesar Luis Menotti, the 1978 World Cup champion coach, opposes Sabello. “I don’t know why they chose him. I can’t detect his philosophy and I don’t like how his teams play”. Maradona also rather likes to belly-ache about his suc-cessor’s tactics.

Now Sabella is awaiting the highlight with the World Cup final against Germany. The coach once disclosed that he had been a fan of the German team since Beckenbauer’s time. He will have to think up something before Sunday if Argentina are to conquer that obstacle too. If he achieves that, even the Menottis and Maradonas can no longer beef.


Boom’s Brazil

SambaarghOk, so I lifted the headline from the British tabloid “Daily Star”. But it does rather hit the nail on the head. For your correspondent, the long wait now begins for his four-year-old son to become a father. Then I can finally tell my grandkids about the historic semi-final between Brazil and Germany. by Freddy Boom

Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in extraordinarily times. Boris Becker has finally won Wimbledon again, with proof that chubby cheeks and a hip replacement need be no barrier to achieving great things. Miley Cyrus has a new tattoo – a portrait of her recently deceased husky named Floyd (I’m going to get a sketch of my pet gerbils etched into my skin somewhere flat-tering, even if Speedy and Gonzales did pass away 30 years ago). And now Thomas Müller’s racehorse El Tren has won the Hamburg Derby.

I seem to specialize in art of “random” these days, things that are totally out of kilter with what’s actually happening. Chickens share my plight. If they can’t decide whether to turn left or right as they strut around the henhouse, they start to pick at non-existent grain. Researchers studying our feathered friends put such behavior down to “two conflicting instincts”. Re-searchers studying SoccerNews columnists agree. Part of me wants to release a bewildered scream of joy – or pull a somer-sault of happiness off my desk. And as I don’t know which way to turn, I settle for tapping random sentences on the keyboard: Did you know that Homer Simpson starred as the referee in a Germany vs Brazil match in an episode of “The Simpsons” aired shortly before the World Cup …” But stop right there.

Because the only thing I really want to say is: 7:1. 7:1. 7:1. SEVEN ONE!!! Sorry, I just had to get that out. I feel better now.

Dear readers of these now familiar SoccerNews bulletins, the psychologist called in by Continental to the SoccerNews edi-torial office has done a good job. I’ve realized now how I can make sense of the Brazil vs Germany semi-final for you, with-out us all ending up picking at imaginary grain under our desks. Together we can find an explanation for what London’s “Daily Star” – in its inimitably British and peerlessly apt way – summed

There’s no place to hide. But Neymar fans try to find one anyway during that amazing semi-final. Photo: Getty

up in its headline “Sambaargh” the day after that historic match. But let me start with a question: Do you know who Earl Hickey is?

Don’t waste time trawling the team lists – he’s not an unher-alded Australian midfielder, there’s no sticker of him in your Panini album. Earl Hickey is the main character in the TV series “My Name is Earl”, an ex-criminal attempting to shore up his personal karma. “Karma is a funny thing,” says Earl, musing over his new motto “do good and good things will happen


German tabloid “Bild” reflects on the country’s 7:1 crushing of Brazil in the semi-final.

There are no words.

Quotes of the day

Dutch newspaper “De Volkskrant” after the Netherlands v Argentina semi-final, in which it took

a penalty shoot-out to bring the first goal.

This monumentally boring match had to have a winner.

to you”. My dear Big Phil Scolari, watching all four series of “My Name is Earl” might have helped your bunch of cry-babies. No hand-on-the-shoulder polonaise dance as they come out of the tunnel, no bellowing of anthems, no collective tear-fest – and, above all, no Neymar-shirt-worshipping before kick-off. Cards on the table: A penalty box dive handed Brazil victory in the opening match of the World Cup against Croatia. Over the course of the tournament, the Seleçao has probably committed more fouls than any other team. The Colombian no. 10 James Rodriguez was kicked off his feet seven times by Brazil’s so-called defender David Luiz alone. Before the semi-final a local “black magic enthusiast” by the name of Sillman was a haunting presence

in the media. A man of some repute in Rio, he’d cobbled together a Thomas Müller doll with its legs tied together. Yes, me neither. Again and again, Julio Cesar & co. called on God to help them out – as if He had nothing better to do than carry their legs of clay to the World Cup title. What about a spot of good, honest football? Karma is a funny thing …

While we’re on the subject of fate … Cast your mind back to the penalty shoot-out in the Netherlands v Costa Rica quarter final. Oranje keeper Tim Krul stopped two Costa Rican attempts primarily by ignoring the unwrit-ten laws of sportsmanship and unnerving the penalty takers by foul means. Since their semi-final against Argentina, of course, Mr. van

Gaal’s men haven’t been feeling quite so clev-er. This time, it was Argentina’s man between the posts, Sergio Romero, who saved twice to win the tie. And who was the Dutch coach who brought Romero to Europe and taught him how to save a spot kick? Karma really is a funny thing.

Turning my thoughts to the final now, the urge to gush forth randomly is seeping back into my fingers. For example, I’m dressing up the following irrelevance as breaking news … Shakira will be appearing in the final! And no, don’t worry, I’m not thinking of Germany’s Shkodran Mustafi, although the names do have a similar ring. A firm believer that “Hips Don’t Lie”, the real Shakira will sing her new

track “La La La” in the Maracana on Sunday. Remember four years ago in Johannesburg, and her performance of “Waka Waka”? Now the SoccerNews lifestyle desk has learned that, at the Moscow final in four years’ time, Shakira will be singing the old footie favorite “Zigga Zagga, Zigga Zagga, Oi, Oi, Oi”. And in Qatar in 2022, it actually will be Shkodran Mustafi treating us to a rendition of “Hot Hot Hot”. You heard it here first.

P.S: It’s true, Homer Simpson did appear as a FIFA referee for a Germany v Brazil World Cup final in a pre-tournament Simpsons episode. How did he get on? Check out “Os Simpsons na Copa do Mundo no Brasil” on YouTube.


Only 35 examples of the Brazilian DKW GT Malzoni were ever built. Photo: Audi

Brazilian DKW models on the Copacabana promenade. Photo: Audi

Brazil’s first World Cup triumph in 1958 marked the beginning of a new era for South America’s largest and most populous country. Football star Pelé captured the imagination of the nation, architect Oscar Niemeyer de-signed the new capital Brasilia as a modern utopia and the Copacabana sound of bossa nova conquered the world. “Ordem & Progres-so – DKW VEMAG and the new dawn in Brazil” – a special exhibition running until September 21, 2014 at the Audi museum mobile in Ingol-stadt, Germany – recalls how the Ingolstadt-based Auto Union GmbH accompanied this chapter in Brazilian history with its DKW cars. “Ordem & Progresso” (Order & Progress) is the official motto of Brazil.

Some lesser-known facts: DKW models were also built in Brazil. DKW was the automaker of choice for the Brazilian middle classes in the 1960s and is still revered as a cult brand in the country today. Although Pelé had already won the World Cup at the age of 17, he had to wait until he was 18 before taking his driving test in a DKW. Legendary racing driver Emerson Fittipaldi wrote off his parents’ DKW on a fam-ily outing at the age of 12, before going on to record the first success of his glittering motor sport career in 1966 at the wheel of a DKW GT Malzoni. In the early days after Brasilia was built, only DKWs were permitted to operate as taxis. And the last DKW passenger car rolled off the assembly line not at Auto Union in

Ingolstadt, but at the VEMAG factory in São Paulo in 1967.

DKW models played a key role in Brazil’s pur-suit of prosperity. At the time, the majority of the country’s cars came from the USA, with some also imported from Germany. Volkswa-gen provided the Beetle, while Auto Union supplied the parts required to assemble the DKW F91 Universal in Brazil. Soon Veículos e Máquinas Agrícolas S.A., or VEMAG for short, had started building DKW models in São Paulo from scratch. Models went by the names of Candango, Belcar and Vemaguet, and sales were strong. By the mid-1960s VEMAG was the third-largest manufacturer in the Brazilian car market, delivering a total of 109,343 DKWs. VEMAG even created a model of its own, the DKW Fissore blending German engineering and Italian design. Genaro “Rino” Malzoni, meanwhile, brought a dash of Brazil-ian exoticism to the party. The car-mad planta-tion owner developed a rakish sports car on a shortened DKW chassis, naming it the DKW GT Malzoni. Only 35 examples were built, including the specially modified racing mod-els. And one of these can now be admired alongside an array of other traditional mod-els – and goals from DKW driver Pelé – in the Audi museum. A video screen shows Pelé’s greatest moments across his three World Cup triumphs.

... that Pelé took his driving test in a DKW?

Did you know …


With his 5 goals at the World Cup, Thomas Mueller is one of the best players in the DFB team

Interview

Mueller: “We have only reached the next round”Thomas Mueller, what do you have to say about the team’s fantastic performance during the 7-1 win over Brazil?

Mueller: “What should you say? It was certainly an impressive result, and we scored four goals within six minutes. If you score them against Brazil, the spectators and viewers are stunned. And on the pitch you yourself don’t know what your emotions are. On the one hand we were enraptured, on the other hand we wanted to go on. What is most important now is that we remain focussed”.

How great was the joy or euphoria in the dressing room?

Mueller: “To depict it without humour and put the facts on the table: we have reached the next round, just as against Algeria. The victory didn’t give us more than getting into the next round”.

But this victory over the World Cup hosts Brazil is of historic dimensions, because there has never been anything like it.

You consoled and embraced Dante after the match. Did you pity your Bayern team-mate?

Mueller: “You feel pity for him because on the opposing side there were also excellent play-ers. I have not yet lost 7-1, but I can roughly imagine what you feel. The guys did not de-serve such a result, and neither did the Brazil-ian fans”.

What do you say about your opponents in the final, Argentina?

Mueller: “That will be the toughest task, but we have good memories because we beat them 4-0 in the quarter-finals in Cape Town four years ago. But they have become stronger. We must attune ourselves for a very tough fight”.

A prognosis: Will you be World Cup cham-pions on Sunday evening?

Mueller: “We will fight till the end and then see what we have achieved”.

Mueller: “Entry into the history books, congra-tulations. We probably can’t get rid of the role of favourites for the final. But the destruction of the favourites in a final can happen very quickly. With the result we will believe in our-selves, we are confident. We shall be forced to give everything again against Argentina. The set phrases we have been saying since the training camp in South Tyrol are coming true”.

Don’t you feel any reason to be particu-larly proud for once?

Mueller: “It is impressive. Praise will be coming thick and fast from the press not only in Ger-many, which is justified, but it won’t help us because on Sunday it’s 0-0 again and we will have to work hard. We know that, we still have to take one more step, and then let’s see. We are not yet heroes. We will push the accelera-tor on Sunday and want to reach our goal at all costs”.

Did you not feel on the pitch that the team had achieved something extraordinary?

Mueller: “After 3-0 and 4-0 you looked at each other with a kind of smirk. The goals were well played. With consideration for the Brazilians we didn’t rejoice too much later“.

You scored your fifth World Cup goal, you could again become the top scorer, but this time Miroslav Klose stole the show with his all-time World Cup goal record.

Mueller: “Miro has been working hard for I don’t know how many years. How old is he – 56? 36? He simply is a super character, and that’s why he deserves this record. Yes, that’s without words”.


The Gurgel BR-800 was one of the first truly Brazilian cars. Photo: Frenz 69The new Troller is known as the “Brazilian Bronco”. Photo: Ford

Did you know …

... that Brazil has its own automakers?

The best-selling cars in Brazil are the Volks-wagen Gol and two small models from Fiat – the Novo Uno and Novo Palio. However, a handful of Brazilian manufacturers continue to hold their heads up against the European superpowers. A prime example is Chamonix NG Cars, known primarily for building replica Porsches under license. The company pro-duces its historic Porsche reproductions in small series – for a fanbase which has even

spread to Germany; importer Michael Gehrke sells the Chamonix 550, a copy of the legend-ary Porsche 550 Spyder, from the southern German town of Ketsch. This particular Porsche model owes a small part of its world-wide fame to James Dean’s fatal accident in a 550 Spyder.

Brazilian brand Troller, meanwhile, enjoys cult status in its home country. Troller has been building the T4 all-wheel-drive off-roader since 1998, and today it’s the Horizonte-based manufacturer’s only model. A pickup also went into production, but its stay was short. Ford took over the brand in 2007 and recently unveiled a new edition of the “Brazil-

ian Bronco”. Contrary to the US company’s One Ford strategy, aimed at producing cars for the global market, the T4 is only available in Brazil. However, the presentation of the new T4 prompted many dealers in Europe and the US to push for the off-roader to be introduced in their markets as well.

Another player in the intriguing history of Brazilian manufacturers is the Gurgel brand. Company founder Joao Conrado do Amaral Gurgel was the highest paid Ford engineer in Brazil when he knocked on his boss’s door one day in 1959 and handed in his notice. His plan was to go it alone making low-cost cars for Brazil and other poor countries. And that

meant going up against the likes of the VW Beetle and Citroen’s 2CV. In order to keep the price of the cars as low as possible, the construction of Gurgel’s models was simple, the engine and transmission supplied by VW. “I swear by German engineering,” Gurgel was reported as saying. Following impressive suc-cess in both Brazil and export markets, the economic crisis of the mid-1980s brought business to a standstill. Production was eventually shut down in 1994. A similar fate was met by the legendary Puma company, a Brazilian version of Porsche, which likewise operated out of São Paulo and also hit trouble in the 80s (Issue 6 of SoccerNews has more on this).


Did you know …

The guests were able to experience the unique atmos-

phere in the Maracanã

Conti-News

Ticket winnersjoin Continentalat World Cup in Brazil

Every football fan has their own special mo-ment during a World Cup – their personal highlight. For some it’s watching their team score an unexpected win over a supposed favorite, for another its big-screen viewing in a party atmosphere among good friends. For one group of fans from a variety of European countries it was a once-in-a-lifetime experi-ence: Continental paved the way for 22 foot-ball fans from the UK, Portugal, Czech Repub-lic, Denmark, Greece, France and Germany to watch a group-stage match live in Brazil. The multi-cultural bunch of fans flew to Rio for the Russia vs Belgium match, which the Belgians managed to win 1:0.

For these fortunate fans the three-day ad-venture proved an unforgettable experience.

They had won the trip as registered parti-cipants in the ContiRioKick app, which had been specially developed for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The aim of this virtual game, cre-ated for Continental as an official World Cup sponsor, was to send as many digital passes to other users as possible. Cross-border passes and special strings of passes were awarded bonus points. “The app, which was available internationally, was aimed at the fast-growing target group of over-18 smartphone users,” ex-plained Alexander Bahlmann, Head of PR, Pas-senger Car and Light Truck Tires. “Our guests were totally thrilled at the atmosphere in the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. And their brief insights into everyday life in Brazil and tour of some cultural highlights made for a collection of unforgettable moments.”

The football fans from across Europe were not the only ones to benefit from ContiRioKick – the “children of light” did too. In the context of the competition Continental made a donation of €10,000 to the UERÈ education project, whose name translates as “children of light”. This charity is committed to helping disadvan-taged children from the favelas in Rio obtain better schooling.

The ticket winners from ContiRioKick before the

descent into the Maracanã

Prize money of 25.6 million Euros is beckoning for the DFB

The International Football Association FIFA will pay out record prize money of 25.6 mil-lion Euros (35 million US dollar) to the 2014 World Cup champions. The losing finalists will receive 18.3 million Euros. Wolfgang Niersbach, the President of the German Football Association (DFB), has totalled a World Cup triumph to be worth about three million Euros to be shared between his As-sociation and the German Football League (DFL). If they win the title, the DFB will pay a bonus of 300,000 Euros to each of the 23 players, totalling 6.9 million Euros.

Loew’s team achieved highest ever World Cup semi-final victory

The German national team achieved the highest ever semi-final victory in World Cup history with their 7-1 win over hosts Brazil. Previously, three semi-final matches ended 6-1 – most recently in 1954 when Germany beat Austria. The 7-1 win against Brazil was Germany’s second-highest result at a FIFA World Cup™ finals after the 8-0 against Saudi Arabia in the first group match in 2002.

Merkel and Gauck will attend World Cup final

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck will support the German national team at the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™. Both will stay in Rio de Janeiro from July 12-14, 2014, where Ger-many will meet Argentina at the Maracana Stadium on Sunday (21:00hrs CEST).

Flick to retire from the suc-cessful DFB coaching team

The German national coaching team will be changed after the 2014 FIFA World Cup™. Faithful Loew assistant Hansi Flick will re-tire from his position. The 49-year-old had already taken over several new tasks during recent months, and on September 1 he will officially become the sports director of the German Football Association (DFB). This po-sition, previously held by Robin Dutt (now coach of Werder Bremen) and Matthias Sammer (sport executive of Bayern Munich), had recently become vacant. National coach Joachim Loew regrets, but at the same time welcomes, the move of his very loyal assistant, who had been with him for eight years. His successor will be decided after the World Cup.


Statistics of the German Players

Player Minutes played

Goals conceded

Save Quota of saves

Ball contacts

Passes/ Pass quota

Running performance

Fouls Fouled

Neuer 570 4 25 86,2 % 264 249 / 81 % 31,5 km 0 1


Tackles Tackles won

Fouls Fouled Ball contacts

Passes/ Pass quota

Goals Assists Running perfor-mance

Höwedes 570 99 59 % 8 6 347 312 / 79 % 0 1 66,3 km

Hummels 389 67 69 % 4 2 272 276 / 82 % 2 0 42,7 km

Lahm 570 79 63 % 3 6 551 529 / 87 % 0 2 67,3 km

Mertesacker 434 47 66 % 3 3 352 351 / 91 % 0 1 44,3 km

Boateng 526 75 67 % 4 3 383 370 / 81 % 0 0 56,5 km

Mustafi 131 14 64 % 1 0 86 81 / 80 % 0 0 14,6 km

Goalkeeper

Defence


Statistics of the German Players


Goals Assists Tackles Tackles won

Fouls Fouled Ball contacts

Passes/ Pass quota

Running perfor-mance

Khedira 376 1 1 64 48 % 6 7 249 232 / 88 % 47,4 km

Schwein-steiger

385 0 0 82 55 % 9 10 358 349 / 89 % 47,8 km

Özil 535 1 1 95 39 % 2 6 357 317 / 78 % 59,1 km

Schürrle 155 3 2 46 30 % 5 2 107 85 / 62 % 17,4 km

Podolski 54 0 0 11 64 % 0 1 47 36 / 83 % 6,6 km

Klose 192 2 0 52 38 % 5 3 75 60 / 53 % 21,6 km

Müller 562 5 3 154 46 % 11 16 291 249 / 68 % 68,8 km

Draxler 14 0 0 0 - % 1 0 8 9 / 100 % 2,3 km

Kroos 570 2 4 82 51 % 4 14 580 519 / 85 % 68,3 km

Götze 226 1 1 69 45 % 5 4 151 134 / 72 % 30,9 km

Kramer 12 0 0 3 67 % 0 0 10 11 / 73 % 2,4 km

Middlefield/Attack

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