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GOLNOIR
GERMANY  music: Jam & Spoon-Stella
If you want, creative, exciting soccer full of flair and imagination...um...you're in the wrong place.
But if you like disciplined defense and superior technical skills combined with an "it ain't over till it's over" attitude, the Germans have perfected it. Picture 11 John Stocktons on the field at the same time and you have the German National side.
Whether known as Germany or West Germany, they are 3 time World and European champions in addition to home to one of the world's most presigious leagues, the Bundesliga, featuring legendary sides like Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkeusen & Borussia Dortmond.
The players who have starred on Germany's National Team are legends of the game: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Gerd Müller, Berti Vogts, Lothar Matthäus and Jürgen Klinsmann have all been revered by fans of the game world wide. Yet above them all is "The Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as a player in 1974 with W. Germany then as the head coach in 1990 with Germany. The pride the German people have in these players and in their National Team is understandable.
Today, players like Oliver Kahn, the world's best GK, Christian Ziege and Michael Ballack try to carry this proud tradition into the 21st century.
Of course one would expect that a country with Germany's past there would be great problems for Black players. Rest assured there have been. Racist chants can still be heard from the terraces of Bundesliga stadiums. Yet Black players such as Ghana's Tony Asamoah have long appeared in the Bundesliga and continue to do so. The US' Tony Sanneh was in Germany for over 5 years and in what has to have Adolf Hitler rolling in his grave, Gerald Asamoah is now a member of the German National Team, having represented the team at the 2002 World Cup. The element of racism in German soccer may have been eclipsed by what is going on in Italy & Spain but it remains. One can only hope that the Black players there continue to be positive and simply let their play change the minds of Nazi wannabes that remain in German society.
CLICK ON ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TO LEARN ABOUT GERMAN SOCCER
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