World Cup 2006 News

Well, what have we learned from this weekend of friendlies? I´d like to look at it the german-way. Despite the fact that we here in Germany tend to look at our national team the negative way (result-wise) we´re confident that our team will survive the Group phase. But it could get harder as claimed often lately. Germany faces Costa Rica, Ecuador and Poland. And especially our neighbors seem to get better and better with their latest 1-0 victory over Croatia. Well, this wasn´t that good of a game but the result is what counts. By the way if you haven´t done so already check out the latest poll to your right.

I´m confident that Germany will advance - no doubt about. But beginning with the Round of the last 16 every game could be your last one and success depends very much on how your daily fitness is. Therefore some journalists, experts and so on are a little off saying the group phase is gonna be easy - there are no more easy wins once the World Cup kicks in. We´re glad if we can take a 1-0 win home on Friday in our opening match against Costa Rica. But we´ll see. In my opinion the concept of our coach Klinsmann will pay off. I see Germany among the last 4 and up from there anything can happen.

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