Soccer World Cup 2014 / Germany

This article covers the German national soccer team at the 2014 soccer world championship . Germany took part in the final round for the eighteenth time and in a World Cup in South America for the third time . The only world championships so far ( 1930 and 1950 ) in which Germany did not take part also took place in South America. Since winning the final on July 13, Germany is the second European team after Spain ( South Africa 2010 ) to be world champions outside of Europe and the first to win the title on the American continent .

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Brazil through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

The German national soccer team before the game on September 11, 2012 in Vienna

In the first round hit Germany in Group C in Sweden , Austria , Ireland , Kazakhstan and the Faroe Islands . In the ten encounters that resulted, Germany had nine wins and one draw against Sweden, with the German team reaching only one draw for the first time despite a 4-0 lead (4: 4). With a 3-0 win against Ireland on the penultimate matchday, the team qualified ahead of time as group winners for the World Cup finals. The biggest win in the group stage was a 6-1 away win over Ireland, with Ireland adding the biggest home defeat. Only in the last group game in Sweden did the team temporarily fall behind. Germany scored the most goals of all European teams, but also had to accept the most goals from all directly qualified European teams. A total of 10 players scored the German goals, of which Mesut Özil scored the most with 8 goals, placing him in third place on the European goalscoring list with three other players. On September 6, 2013 Miroslav Klose scored his 68th international goal with a 1-0 win against Austria, equaling Gerd Müller's record . In total, national coach Joachim Löw used 23 players and thus, like Belgium, the fewest players of all qualified teams. Only goalkeepers Manuel Neuer , Mesut Özil and Thomas Müller were used in all ten games, of which only Neuer played the full distance in all games, while Özil was substituted eight minutes before the end of the game in the last game against Sweden and Müller only in four Playing the full distance played.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers
0Sep 7 2012	Hanover	Germany	-	Faroe Islands	3: 0 (1: 0)	Götze (28th), Özil (54th, 72nd)
Sep 11 2012	Vienna	Austria	-	Germany	1: 2 (0: 1)	Reus (44th), Özil (52nd, eleven); Junuzović (57.)
Oct 12, 2012	Dublin	Ireland	-	Germany	1: 6 (0: 2)	Reus (32nd, 40th), Özil (55th, Elfm.), Klose (58th), Kroos (61st, 83rd); Keogh (90th + 2 ')
Oct 16, 2012	Berlin	Germany	-	Sweden	4: 4 (3: 0)	Klose (8th, 15th), Mertesacker (39th), Özil (55th); Ibrahimović (62nd), Lustig (64th), Elmander (76th), Elm (90th + 3 ')
22 Mar 2013	Astana	Kazakhstan	-	Germany	0: 3 (0: 2)	Müller (20th, 73rd), Götze (22.)
26th Mar 2013	Nuremberg	Germany	-	Kazakhstan	4: 1 (3: 0)	Reus (23rd, 90th), Götze (27th), Gündoğan (31st); Schmidtgal (46.)
06 Sep 2013	Munich	Germany	-	Austria	3: 0 (1: 0)	Klose (33.), Kroos (51.), Müller (88.)
Sep 10 2013	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	-	Germany	0: 3 (0: 1)	Mertesacker (22nd), Özil (74th), Müller (84th)
Oct 11, 2013	Cologne	Germany	-	Ireland	3: 0 (1: 0)	Khedira (11th), Schürrle (58th), Özil (90th + 1 ')
Oct 15, 2013	Solna	Sweden	-	Germany	3: 5 (2: 1)	Hysén (6th, 69th), Kačaniklić (42nd); Özil (45.), Götze (52.), Schürrle (57., 66., 76.)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	10	9	1	0	036:100	+26	28
2.	Sweden	10	6th	2	2	019:140	+5	20th
3.	Austria	10	5	2	3	020:100	+10	17th
4th	Ireland	10	4th	2	4th	016:170	−1	14th
5.	Kazakhstan	10	1	2	7th	006:210	−15	05
6th	Faroe Islands	10	0	1	9	004:290	−25	01

Sweden reached the playoff games as one of the eight best runners-up in the group, but lost both games against Portugal and thus could not qualify for the World Cup.

preparation

In preparation for the World Cup, four friendlies were planned, the last of which was a benefit game. Between the second and third game, from May 21st to 31st, 2014, a training camp took place in the Passeier Valley in South Tyrol , in which the U-20 national team also took part as a test match opponent. An expanded squad of 28 players for the training camp was named by national coach Löw on May 8th. This had to be reduced to 23 players after the training camp. In the 6-1 win against Armenia, Klose scored his 69th international goal and is now the sole record scorer for the German national team. After the last game, they left for Brazil , where the entire DFB team moved into their base camp in Campo Bahia .

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
05th Mar 2014	Stuttgart	Chile	1: 0 (1: 0)	Götze (16.)
May 13, 2014	Hamburg	Poland	0-0 (0: 0)
0June 1, 2014	Mönchengladbach	Cameroon	2: 2 (0: 0)	Eto'o (62.), Müller (66.), Schürrle (71.), Choupo-Moting (78.)
0June 6, 2014	Mainz	Armenia	6: 1 (0: 0)	Schürrle (52.), Mchitarjan (69., Penalty), Podolski (71.), Höwedes (73.), Klose (76.), Götze (82., 89.)

Squad

A preliminary list of 30 players had to be submitted to FIFA by May 13, 2014. The final list of 23 players had to reach FIFA by June 2, 2014 at the latest. Of the 30 provisionally nominated players, twelve were already used in previous World Cup tournaments. The preliminary roster was announced on May 8, 2014. After the friendly against Poland were Maximilian Meyer , Leon Goretzka , André Hahn and Marcell Jansen removed from the provisional squad, while Christoph Kramer , who made his debut against Poland, the squad has been added. On May 22, 2014, Lars Bender suffered a thigh injury in training camp and was therefore unable to participate in the World Cup. Joachim Löw waived a subsequent nomination. After the friendly against Cameroon on June 1, 2014, Löw Shkodran deleted Mustafi , Marcel Schmelzer and Kevin Volland from the squad. In the international benefit match against Armenia on June 6, 2014, Marco Reus suffered a partial tear in the anterior syndesmosis ligament above the left ankle and was therefore unable to participate in the tournament. In his place, Mustafi moved into the squad.

For the first time, there were seven players working for foreign clubs in the squad, which exceeded the previous maximum of six players from 1994.

The squad consisted of the following players (division into goalkeepers , defenders , midfielders and strikers according to FIFA):

No.	player	society	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	Date of birth	Games	Gates				World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2014)	World Cup goals (before 2014)
goalkeeper
1	Manuel Neuer	FC Bayern Munich M, P	045	00	27 Mar 1986	7th	0	0	0	0	2010	6th	0
22nd	Roman Weidenfeller	Borussia Dortmund	003	00	0Aug 6, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
12	Ron-Robert Zieler	Hannover 96	003	00	Feb 12, 1989	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
20th	Jerome Boateng	FC Bayern Munich M, P	039	00	03rd Sep 1988	7th	0	0	0	0	2010	5	0
15th	Erik Durm	Borussia Dortmund	001	00	May 12, 1992	0	0	0	0	0
3	Matthias Ginter	Sc freiburg	002	00	Jan. 19, 1994	0	0	0	0	0
2	Kevin Grosskreutz	Borussia Dortmund	005	00	July 19, 1988	0	0	0	0	0
4th	Benedikt Höwedes	FC Schalke 04	021st	02	Feb. 29, 1988	7th	0	1/1	0	0
5	Mats Hummels	Borussia Dortmund	030th	02	Dec 16, 1988	6th	2	0	0	0
17th	Per Mertesacker	Arsenal FC P	098	04th	29 Sep 1984	6th	0	0	0	0	2006, 2010	13	0
21st	Shkodran Mustafi	Sampdoria Genoa	001	00	Apr 17, 1992	3	0	0	0	0
midfield player
14th	Julian Draxler	FC Schalke 04	011	01	Sep 20 1993	1	0	0	0	0
6th	Sami Khedira	Real Madrid C, P	046	04th	0Apr 4, 1987	5	1	1	0	0	2010	7th	1
23	Christoph Kramer	Borussia Monchengladbach	002	00	Feb 19, 1991	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Toni Kroos	FC Bayern Munich M, P	044	05	0Jan. 4, 1990	7th	2	0	0	0	2010	4th	0
16	Philipp Lahm	FC Bayern Munich M, P	106	05	Nov 11, 1983	7th	0	1	0	0	2006, 2010	13	1
8th	Mesut Özil	Arsenal FC P	055	017th	Oct 15, 1988	7th	1	0	0	0	2010	7th	1
7th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	FC Bayern Munich M, P	102	023	0Aug 1, 1984	6th	0	1/1	0	0	2006, 2010	14th	2
striker
19th	Mario Götze	FC Bayern Munich M, P	029	09	03rd June 1992	6th	2	0	0	0
11	Miroslav Klose	Lazio Rome	132	069	0June 9, 1978	5	2	0	0	0	2002, 2006, 2010	19th	14th
13	Thomas Müller	FC Bayern Munich M, P	049	017th	13 Sep 1989	7th	5	0	0	0	2010	6th	5
10	Lukas Podolski	Arsenal FC P	114	047	0June 4th 1985	2	0	0	0	0	2006, 2010	13	5
9	André Schürrle	Chelsea FC	033	013	0Nov 6, 1990	6th	3	0	0	0
Team management: trainers and managers
	Joachim Löw	National coach	105		0Feb 3, 1960	7th					2010	7th
	Oliver Bierhoff	Team manager	139		0May 1, 1968	7th					2006, 2010	14th
	Hansi Flick	Assistant coach	105		Feb. 24, 1965	7th					2010	7th
	Andreas Koepke	Goalkeeping coach	136		March 12 1962	7th					2006, 2010	14th

1. ↑ Successes of the club: C = UEFA Champions League winner 2013/14 , M = National champion 2013/14, P = National cup winner 2013/14.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Only the games and goals that were played or scored before the start of the World Cup (as of June 6, 2014, after the game against Armenia) are given.
3. ↑ The display "1/1" means that one card was received before the semi-finals and one card after the quarter-finals, so that no ban was due.

Of the seven players who were used in all seven games, apart from Manuel Neuer, only captain Philipp Lahm and Benedikt Höwedes were in action for the entire season.

Group stage

Salvador Fortaleza Recife Santa Cruz Cabrália Porto Alegre Rio de Janeiro Belo Horizonte

Quarters (blue), group venues (red), eighth-final venue (green), quarter-final and final venue (yellow) and semi-final venue (pink)

When the final round was drawn on 6 December 2013, Germany was selected as one of eight teams due to its placement in the FIFA world rankings from October 2013 and was drawn as the head of Group G. Lost were delivered Ghana , the USA and Portugal - the latter side's Geoff Hurst , the protection of the Wembley gate . Germany played the last group game against Ghana at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa on June 23, 2010 and reached the round of 16 with a 1-0 win. The USA, trained by the former national coach Jürgen Klinsmann , were last opposed on June 2, 2013 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the US Football Association in a friendly game that was lost 3: 4. At World Championships, Germany and the USA met in the group stage in 1998 (2-0 for Germany) and in 2002 in the quarter-finals (1-0 for Germany). Portugal was last opponent in the first group game of the European Championship finals on June 9, 2012, with Germany winning 1-0. At world championships, both met each other once, in the game for third place at the 2006 World Cup, which Germany won 3-1. For the first time, Germany did not play a team in the group stage that has never been played at a World Cup. Before the draw, both Jürgen Klinsmann and Portugal's top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo expressed their wish not to meet Germany, while Kevin-Prince Boateng wanted Germany and his half-brother Jérôme Boateng as group opponents again.

Accommodation for the German team was the Campo Bahia , which they moved into on June 8th. The first group game was the 100th World Cup game for Germany, making it the first nation to reach this limit. All venues up to the quarter-finals were on the Atlantic coast with minimum temperatures in June of 22 ° C and maximum temperatures of up to 29.6 ° C and a relative humidity of 82 to 85%. The game in Fortaleza was the closest game to the equator in the history of the national team. Germany had not played any games in one of the three group venues before the World Cup.

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Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	United States	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Portugal	3	1	1	1	004: 700	−3	04th
4th	Ghana	3	0	1	2	004: 600	−2	01

Mon., June 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Salvador
Germany	-	Portugal	4: 0 (3: 0)
Sat, June 21, 2014, 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza
Germany	-	Ghana	2: 2 (0: 0)
Thursday, June 26, 2014, 1:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Recife
United States	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 0)

Knockout round

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Round of 16

Mon., June 30, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Porto Alegre
Germany	-	Algeria	2: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0)

For the first time since the 1970 quarter-finals against England, Germany won another World Cup game in extra time without relying on penalties. There were only two games against Algeria, both of which were lost. The last game of both teams took place in the preliminary round of the 1982 World Cup in Gijón , Germany lost 2-1.

Quarter finals

Fri., July 4, 2014, 1:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
France	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 1)

There were previously 25 games against France with eight wins, six draws and eleven defeats. At world championships, the record was balanced with one win, one draw and one defeat, but the draw was turned into a victory on penalties.

Semifinals

Miroslav Klose scored his 16th World Cup goal in a 7-1 win in Belo Horizonte and has been the sole top scorer ever since.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte
Brazil	-	Germany	1: 7 (0: 5)

There were previously 21 games against Brazil, four of which were won, five ended in a draw and twelve were lost. Germany had never won against Brazil in their opponent's country. At World Cups, there was only the match in the 2002 final , which Brazil won 2-0. The last game before the World Cup between the two teams took place on August 10, 2011 as a friendly in Stuttgart and was won 3-2 by Germany.

final

Mario Götze scores the winning goal against Argentina.

Captain Philipp Lahm (front right) with the World Cup trophy at the award ceremony

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Sun. July 13, 2014, 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Germany	-	Argentina	1: 0 a.d.

Both teams had previously faced each other six times at world championships and for the third time in a row after the two quarter-finals in 2006 and 2010 . Germany won three times in normal playing time, including a. in the final in 1990. Two games ended in a draw, one of which Germany won on penalties. Only in the 1986 final was there a defeat against Argentina. Up until then, Argentina had won against Germany more often in friendly matches. It was the third final pairing between the two. No other teams have met in the final that often.

Resignations after the World Cup

Shortly after the World Cup, captain Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose and Per Mertesacker announced their resignation from the German national team. The three players, as well as Hansi Flick , who moved to the post of sports director at the DFB, were officially bid farewell on September 3, 2014 before the friendly game against Argentina , which was lost 2: 4 .

statistics

• The first round game against Portugal was the 100th World Cup game for Germany, which was the first country to reach this mark.
• In the second round match against Ghana, Miroslav Klose set the World Cup goal record of 15 goals two minutes after coming on as a substitute by scoring a 2-2 final score, which Ronaldo had held since 2006 - also with a goal against Ghana. His goal in the semifinals against Brazil made him the sole record goal scorer with 16 goals.
• Germany was the first team to reach the semi-finals for the fourth time in a row. Miroslav Klose was the first player to make four semi-finals.
• Germany reached the final of a World Cup for the eighth time, setting a new record.
• Germany was the only team to play in six different cities.
• With the 7-1 victory in the semi-finals against Brazil, Germany overtook the Brazilians in the number of goals scored at World Cups and after the final had scored three more goals than Brazil with 224 goals.
• With 18: 4 goals Germany achieved its best hit rate at world championships and equalized the goal record set by Brazil at the 2002 World Cup in the seven games that have been common since 1974 until the world championship title. The DFB-Elf only scored more goals in the six games up to the title win in 1954 (25:14).
• The 18 German hits were distributed among eight players ( Thomas Müller , Mats Hummels , Sami Khedira , Mario Götze , André Schürrle , Mesut Özil , Miroslav Klose and Toni Kroos ). This put the DFB-Elf in second place in the ranking of teams with the highest number of goalscorers in the tournament, behind the Netherlands (nine goalscorers) and ahead of Colombia, France and Belgium (six goalscorers each).
• Thomas Müller scored the 2,000th goal for the German national team with a 1-0 win against Brazil.
• Eight players had won the U-21 ( Jérôme Boateng , Benedikt Höwedes , Mats Hummels, Sami Khedira, Mesut Özil and Manuel Neuer ) and the U-17 European championship (Mario Götze and Shkodran Mustafi ) in 2009 . In addition, substitute goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler was part of the team that became U-19 European champions in 2008 .
• Mario Götze was the first substitute to score the winning goal in a World Cup final. Götze's goal was the last of 32 goals scored by substitutes during the tournament; more than at any previous World Cup. Five of them were scored by German players (André Schürrle three goals, Miroslav Klose and Mario Götze one goal each). With his three goals, André Schürrle set a new goal record for German substitutes at world championships.
• Germany took the lead in the FIFA world rankings after winning the World Cup . In the course of the tournament, the DFB-Elf had defeated the teams (Brazil, Portugal, Argentina) that had been in 3rd to 5th place in the world rankings; Spain as the defending champion and the first in the ranking to date in front of the second-placed German team had already been eliminated after the group stage.

Awards

• In six of the seven DFB-Elf World Cup games, German players were voted Man of the Match (twice Thomas Müller and Mario Götze and once each Mats Hummels and Toni Kroos ).
• Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm and Thomas Müller were nominated for the Golden Ball on July 11th by the Technical Study Group (TSG) of FIFA . Müller was ultimately awarded the Silver Ball . He also received the Silver Shoe as the second best goalscorer.
• Manuel Neuer was awarded the Golden Glove as the best goalkeeper.
• Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm, Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer were included in the Top 11 index , with Germany having the most players.
• André Schürrle's goals against Algeria and Mario Götze against Argentina were voted goal of the month for June and July by the viewers of the sports show . Mario Götze's final goal was also voted Goal of the Year with 47.7% of the vote .
• Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer were elected to the Dream Team via an internet vote on the FIFA website , with Germany and Brazil providing the most players. Jogi Löw was chosen as the coach of the Dream Team.
• Manuel Neuer was then voted footballer of the year and Joachim Löw was voted coach of the year in Germany.
• On November 10, 2014, the players and the coaching team received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President Joachim Gauck , the highest sporting award in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• Joachim Löw was named FIFA Coach of the Year on January 13, 2015 .
• In April 2015, like all world champions since 2002, the team was named Team of the Year with the Laureus World Sports Awards .

Victory celebration

The return flight to Germany took place on July 15th in a Lufthansa charter plane, which was labeled with "Siegerflieger Fanhansa". After flying over the fan mile at the Brandenburg Gate at a height of around 600 meters and landing in Berlin-Tegel , a trip on an open truck trailer to the reception at the fan mile followed. An estimated half a million people are said to have gathered there. The players as well as their coaches and supervisors took the stage to celebrate with the trophy and to thank the fans for their support.

At the victory celebration, some national players - in a variation of similar performances at previous fan festivals - performed a song and dance to the melody of the children's song "I know a cowboy". This later became known as the "gaucho dance" and was referred to in various media as a tasteless mockery of the Argentinians who were defeated in the final. With DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach and the players involved, Toni Kroos and Shkodran Mustafi, this interpretation was met with incomprehension. Many comments, including in the international press, pointed to the consistently fair behavior of the German team during the tournament and the widespread use of catch singing.

The guest star at the victory celebration of the German footballers was the pop singer Helene Fischer , who performed her hit “ Breathless through the night ” (with a different text, adapted to the occasion) .

Others

• On November 10, 2014, the documentary Die Team premiered, showing the 2014 World Cup in Brazil from the perspective of the German team.
• Germany qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia by winning the title and won this tournament too.

Web links

• Technical Study Group: 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil . TECHNICAL REPORT AND STATISTICS. Ed .: Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 2014 ( fifa.com [PDF; 10.8 MB ; accessed on July 13, 2018]).

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Preparations for the World Cup are fixed: The timetable to Brazil. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , December 20, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Regulations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup ™. (PDF; 313 KB) List of players, rest time, preparation phase. In: fifa.com. FIFA, p. 36 , accessed June 9, 2014 . 
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6. Jump up ↑ World Cup squad: Löw cancels Mustafi, Schmelzer and Volland. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, June 2, 2014, accessed on June 9, 2014 . 
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10. ^ Sports information service: Cristiano Ronaldo fears group with Germany. In: fifa.com. FIFA, December 5, 2013, accessed June 9, 2014 . 
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12. ↑ World Cup quarter: This is how the "Campo Bahia" is created. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, February 18, 2014, accessed on June 9, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Philipp Lahm: "Thank you very much for a wonderful time!" In: dfb.de. German Football Association, July 18, 2014, accessed on November 3, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Klose ends his career in the national team. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, August 11, 2014, accessed on November 3, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Mertesacker also stops playing as a national player. In: kicker.de. Kicker-Sportmagazin, August 15, 2014, accessed on November 3, 2014 . 
16. ↑ Video: Thank you Philipp, Miro, Per and Hansi! In: dfb.de. German Football Association, September 3, 2014, accessed on November 3, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Christian Teevs, dpa : 18 hits at the World Cup: Germany sets Brazil's goal record . In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , July 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
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19. ↑ World champion Germany takes over the top position. In: fifa.com. FIFA, July 17, 2014, accessed November 12, 2014 . 
20. ↑ Golden glove from adidas. In: fifa.com. FIFA, accessed February 8, 2015 . 
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24. ↑ Manuel Neuer is footballer of the year. In: kicker.de. Kicker sports magazine , August 10, 2014, accessed on November 12, 2014 . 
25. ↑ World champions receive a silver laurel leaf from the Federal President. In: dfb.de. German Football Association, November 10, 2014, accessed on November 28, 2014 . 
26. ↑ laureus.com: THE WINNERS OF THE YEAR 2015 ARE ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
27. ↑ Winner aircraft on duty for 18 days. In: sport1.de. Sport1 , July 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
28. ↑ Lufthansa - Siegerflieger - Kolle Rebbe. Retrieved August 30, 2017 (American English). 
29. ↑ World championship celebration at the Brandenburg Gate: jubilation, excitement, hoarseness. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, July 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 . 
30. ↑ The Truth About Gaucho Singing. In: welt.de. Die Welt , July 16, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 . 
31. ↑ "This is how the gauchos go, the gauchos, they go like that!" - the press reviews: "A crazy idea". In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, July 16, 2014, accessed July 24, 2014 . 
32. ↑ World Cup party in Berlin: DFB President Niersbach defends gaucho dance. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, July 16, 2014, accessed July 24, 2014 . 
33. ↑ German press agency : Kroos thinks the excitement about gaucho dance is "laughable". In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , July 21, 2014, accessed on July 24, 2014 . 
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35. ↑ Peter Burghardt: Much Ado About Nothing. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 17, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015 . 
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37. ↑ Andrian Kreye: Whoever loses is snubbed. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 17, 2014, accessed on January 25, 2015 .