Q'orianka Kilcher - german world magazine
Q'orianka Kilcher - german world magazine
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22<br />
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP<br />
A Glance at the Teams<br />
from Germany, the USA & Switzerland<br />
GERMANY:<br />
Second Place 2002, Third Place 2006 —<br />
World Champion 2010?<br />
1<br />
Despite its inexperience in tournaments and the loss of captain<br />
Michael Ballack, starting goalkeeper René Adler and midfield<br />
strategist Simon Rolfes the German team – with an average age of 25<br />
years the youngest World Cup team after Ghana and North Korea —<br />
have the skills to successfully lead the DFB campaign “The Fourth<br />
Star for Germany” to the World Cup trophy on July 11.<br />
The main pillars of the young, dynamic, but largely inexperienced<br />
team after the injury-related loss of Captain Michael Ballack are<br />
Philipp Lahm (26), Sebastian Schweinsteiger (25), Per Mertesacker (25) and Miroslav<br />
Klose (32). Philipp Lahm, who is replacing Ballack as team captain and plays as defender<br />
on Germany’s most successful soccer club, Bayern München, is participating in the World<br />
Cup for the second time after 2006 and is the player with the steadiest<br />
2<br />
performance.<br />
Trainer Joachim Löw (50) has created a sophisticated master plan<br />
for the World Cup — from preparation in both training camps in Sicily<br />
and South Tyrol in the country of the current <strong>world</strong> champion Italy to<br />
the real matches on the Cape. The team is to be presented to the<br />
<strong>world</strong> as a good ambassador from Germany — not only on the field:<br />
3 “I expect that we will behave ourselves appropriately<br />
on and off the field. We represent 80 million<br />
Germans.” Löw has long stepped out of the shadow<br />
of Jürgen Klinsmann, whom he assisted at the 2006<br />
World Cup in Germany. Thanks to his calm, fair, and congenial way of<br />
dealing with celebrities and the media, the ex-center forward, who is still the<br />
record goal scorer of SC Freiburg, has gained respect. “I don’t believe we are<br />
among the top favorites like Spain, Brazil, Argentina,” says the Black Forest<br />
native known for being a smart tactician.<br />
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“But we always have a good chance of becoming <strong>world</strong><br />
champions.”<br />
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www.<strong>german</strong>-<strong>world</strong>.com Summer 2010<br />
1 National Coach Joachim Löw<br />
2 Michael Ballack before his injury<br />
3 Top player Miroslav Klose<br />
4 The new team captain Philipp Lahm<br />
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• GERMANY<br />
AT THE WORLD CUP<br />
IN NUMBERS<br />
World Cup Participation: 17 (55 wins,<br />
19 undecided, 18 losses — 190:114<br />
goals<br />
World Cup Victories: World champion<br />
1954, 1974, 1990<br />
Second place: 1966, 1982, 1986, 2002<br />
Third place: 1934, 1970, 2010<br />
Fourth place: 1958<br />
Quarter finals: 1962, 1994, 1998<br />
Round of 16: 1938<br />
Round of 32: 1978<br />
Opponents in Preliminary Group D at the<br />
2010 World Cup: Australia, Serbia,<br />
Ghana<br />
GW’s World Cup Tip:<br />
Third place<br />
RANKING OF SOCCER<br />
WORLD CHAMPIONS<br />
Brazil 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002<br />
Italy 1934, 1938, 1982, 2010<br />
Germany 1954, 1974, 1990<br />
Uruguay 1930, 1950<br />
Argentina 1978, 1986<br />
England 1966<br />
France 1998<br />
www.<strong>german</strong>-<strong>world</strong>.com/ World Cup<br />
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