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| Germany v USA: international friendly – live! | Germany v USA: international friendly – live! |
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| Check out these highlights from USA’s 4-3 victory over Holland. The Dutch defending! | |
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| Germany hold the No 1 ranking in men’s and women’s football. They’re hoping to become the first country to hold the men’s and women’s World Cups at the same time. What a magnificent soccer nation. | |
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| Aside from Klinsmann, there’s definitely a German flavour in this USA team. Four of the starting XI – Brooks, Chandler, Williams and Johnson – were born in Germany, and several of Klinsmann’s squad have experience playing there. Here’s Grant Wahl from last year on the influence of Germany on the USA World Cup team: | |
| The cold war may be over, but its effects are alive and well on Klinsmann’s US World Cup squad, which includes five German-Americans: midfielders Jones, 32, and Julian Green, 19; and defenders Fabian Johnson, 26, Timmy Chandler, 24, and John Brooks, 21. From a demographic perspective, it makes perfect sense that the U.S.’s military influence in Germany would extend to the soccer field. | |
| When Jones was born in 1981, more than 248,000 American troops were stationed in Germany (compared to 40,304 at the start of 2014). One can only imagine the soccer heights the US might scale if it had a similar military presence in Brazil, but alas, there were only 222 US troops there in 1981. | |
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| Here’s a stat: in 10 Germany-USA meetings, no draws. | |
| 3 - This will be the 11th meeting between #USMNT and Germany. USA have won 3 and lost 7 of the previous ten meetings. Revenge. | |
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| The lineups are in: | |
| Germany: Zieler; Rudy, Mustafi, Rüdiger, Hector; Schweinsteiger, Gündogan; Herrmann, Özil, Schürrle; Götze. | |
| USA: Guzan; Chandler, Alvarado, Brooks, Johnson; Williams, Zardes, Diskerud, Bradley; Johannsson, Agudelo. | |
| So Zieler of Hannover starts in goal for Germany, and Patrick Herrmann of Monchengladbach makes his debut. Götze starts up front. | |
| For the US, Agudelo and Danny Williams come in – Brek Shea and Kyle Beckermann are outta there. | |
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| On the Manuel Neuer tip, here are all of his saves from the World Cup last year. What a hero. | |
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| That Germany team was so good last year, wasn’t it? Skill and pace and athleticism and passing and vim – and what a goalkeeper! Unfortunately, Neuer is missing, as are Thomas Müller and Toni Kroos. They’re tired after a long season, poor dears. But 13 of the squad won in Brazil last year, and Boateng, Hummels, Khedira, Schweini, Ozil and Götze are all in line to play. | |
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| Hi! Thomas Wolfe famously said you can’t go home again – but Jürgen Klinsmann is doing just that. Klinsi is all-American these days: he lives in Huntington Beach, swims in the ocean, speaks with American-accented English, and is the highly successful coach of a fast-improving USA team. But today the Swabian baker’s son is going back to his roots. | Hi! Thomas Wolfe famously said you can’t go home again – but Jürgen Klinsmann is doing just that. Klinsi is all-American these days: he lives in Huntington Beach, swims in the ocean, speaks with American-accented English, and is the highly successful coach of a fast-improving USA team. But today the Swabian baker’s son is going back to his roots. |
| His side play the world champions in Cologne, in an international friendly to really get the juices flowing. He’s also meeting up with his friend and prodigy Joachim Löw. Klinsmann, remember, coached Germany before passing the baton to his assistant, Löw – and the pupil has outdone the scholar, winning the World Cup for Germany for the first time in 24 years. | His side play the world champions in Cologne, in an international friendly to really get the juices flowing. He’s also meeting up with his friend and prodigy Joachim Löw. Klinsmann, remember, coached Germany before passing the baton to his assistant, Löw – and the pupil has outdone the scholar, winning the World Cup for Germany for the first time in 24 years. |
| But things aren’t going quite so well for Germany since that heady July evening at the Maracaña last July, when Mario Götze collected and twisted and volleyed past Sergio Romero. They’ve stuttered against Ireland and Poland in qualification for Euro 2016, are find themselves in a mild qualifying jam. They’ll be fine, no doubt – they play Gibraltar away on Saturday, and they’ll probably win 9-0 – but they could do with a win here against the USA, not least to make everyone feel a little bit better about the nationalelf. | But things aren’t going quite so well for Germany since that heady July evening at the Maracaña last July, when Mario Götze collected and twisted and volleyed past Sergio Romero. They’ve stuttered against Ireland and Poland in qualification for Euro 2016, are find themselves in a mild qualifying jam. They’ll be fine, no doubt – they play Gibraltar away on Saturday, and they’ll probably win 9-0 – but they could do with a win here against the USA, not least to make everyone feel a little bit better about the nationalelf. |
| Klinsi’s feeling better about his team, probably: they played really well last week to come back from 3-1 down to beat Holland in Amsterdam, showing no little perseverance, desire and skill. That’s no mean feat, even if Holland defended like clots, oafs and galoots, and they’ll provide a stiff test for Germany, especially since the Klinsmann wants to finalise his roster for the Gold Cup, which begins in America next month. Places are up for grabs, and everyone wants in. | Klinsi’s feeling better about his team, probably: they played really well last week to come back from 3-1 down to beat Holland in Amsterdam, showing no little perseverance, desire and skill. That’s no mean feat, even if Holland defended like clots, oafs and galoots, and they’ll provide a stiff test for Germany, especially since the Klinsmann wants to finalise his roster for the Gold Cup, which begins in America next month. Places are up for grabs, and everyone wants in. |
| Kickoff is 7.45pm BST, 2.45pm ET – and we’d love for you to join us. | Kickoff is 7.45pm BST, 2.45pm ET – and we’d love for you to join us. |
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| Tim will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Les Carpenter on the 25th anniversary of the USA team at the 1990 World Cup: | Tim will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Les Carpenter on the 25th anniversary of the USA team at the 1990 World Cup: |
| Long before Major League Soccer, regular World Cups for America and Saturday games on network TV, there was a team that launched modern soccer in the United States. It was a group of unknowns, many of them fresh from college, who had been handed an impossible task: become the first American team in 40 years to go to the World Cup. | Long before Major League Soccer, regular World Cups for America and Saturday games on network TV, there was a team that launched modern soccer in the United States. It was a group of unknowns, many of them fresh from college, who had been handed an impossible task: become the first American team in 40 years to go to the World Cup. |
| For nine months in 1989, the US players battled to seize one of the two Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf), spots in the 1990 World Cup. Eventually, they did, with a miracle goal scored on a tiny island off the coast of Venezuela. Then 25 years ago this week they stepped on an Italian field and launched a movement. | For nine months in 1989, the US players battled to seize one of the two Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf), spots in the 1990 World Cup. Eventually, they did, with a miracle goal scored on a tiny island off the coast of Venezuela. Then 25 years ago this week they stepped on an Italian field and launched a movement. |
| This is the story of America’s soccer pioneers who walked into a world they never could have imagined. | This is the story of America’s soccer pioneers who walked into a world they never could have imagined. |
| Related: An oral history of USA at Italia '90: the World Cup that changed US soccer | Related: An oral history of USA at Italia '90: the World Cup that changed US soccer |