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Germany National Football Team

Head coach: Joachim Löw
Captain: Michael Ballack
Top scorer: Gerd Müller
FIFA ranking: 4

The German national football team (German: Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the association football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund, German Football Association) which was founded in 1900.

As a result of the occupation of Germany after World War II, and its division into separate Allied administrative zones, separate national teams were also fielded by East Germany and the Saarland, while the DFB continued to field the national team in the Federal Republic of Gemany (commonly referred to as West Germany). Saarland rejoined the federal republic after a 1956 plebiscite and subsequently no longer organized a separate side as its independent football association became part of the DFB. During the Cold War period a separate league structure and related governing body emerged in the Soviet-occupied area of the country and was soon followed by the formation of a GDR (German Democratic Republic) national team in 1952. After German re-unification in 1990 the entire East German football structure was dissolved, much of it being incorporated into the DFB.

Germany has been one of the most successful European national teams at international competitions, having won a total of three World Cups and three European championships; in addition, the team representing East Germany team won the Olympic title in 1976.

The current coaching staff of the national team include head coach Joachim Löw, assistant coach Hans-Dieter Flick, goalkeeper coach Andreas Köpke, athletic coach Mark Verstegen, athletic coach Oliver Schmidtlein and team manager Oliver Bierhoff.

Germany Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
1	Jens Lehmann	G	6-3	192	37
12	Timo Hildebrand	G	6-1	170	28
2	Marcell Jansen	D	6-3	185	21
16	Philip Lahm	D	5-7	135	23
17	Per Mertesacker	D	6-5	187	22
21	Christoph Metzelder	D	6-4	185	26
24	Manuel Friedrich	D	6-2	172	27
8	Torsten Frings	M	5-11	176	30
13	Michael Ballack	M	6-2	187	30
15	Thomas Hitzlsperger	M	6-0	165	25
19	Bernd Schneider	M	5-9	163	33
27	Clemens Fritz	M	6-0	170	26
28	Piotr Trochowski	M	5-6	150	23
34	Roberto Hilbert	M	5-11	163	22
35	Gonzalo Castro	M	5-8	154	20
38	Simon Rolfes	M	6-2	174	25
11	Miroslav Klose	S	5-11	163	29
31	Kevin Kuranyi	S	6-2	172	25
32	Mario Gomez	S	6-2	190	21
37	Patrick Helmes	S	5-11	172	23

Group D
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Germany	7	6	1	0	29	4	25	19
Czech Republic	7	4	2	1	15	4	11	14
Ireland	7	4	1	2	12	8	4	13
Slovakia	7	3	0	4	16	13	3	9
Wales	6	2	1	3	8	9	-1	7
Cyprus	6	1	1	4	9	16	-7	4
San Marino	6	0	0	6	1	36	-35	0