Following its Semi-Finals appearance at the 2016 European Championship, Germany encountered difficulties in subsequent major tournaments. In its last 15 official international matches, Germany managed to come out on top four times. This downturn began during the 2018 World Cup. The defending champions crashed out in the group stage for the first time since 1938. […]

The World Cup’s latest demolition derby of emotional turbulence ended with Japanese elation, Spanish relief, Costa Rican wonder at what might have been, and a German soccer nation limping painfully into introspective despair. The inquest – for the third time in four-and-a-half years – began immediately. German public broadcaster ARD brutally interrogated an exhausted Hansi […]