Soccer World Cup 2015 / Germany

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This article covers the German women's national soccer team at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada . Germany took part in the finals for the seventh time, always as reigning European champions . Germany took fourth place for the second time since 1991. By making it to the quarter-finals and eliminating four European teams in the round of 16, the German team was also able to qualify for the soccer tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games , for which two of the three best European teams were able to qualify at the World Cup.

qualification

The reigning European champions met in the European qualifying Group 1 in Ireland , Croatia , Russia , the Slovak Republic and Slovenia . The German team won all games and easily qualified for the world championship. Only after five games without conceding goals, the German team had to accept goals for the first time in Ireland and could only win the game in the final minute. With the 4: 1 in Moscow on the penultimate matchday against Russia, the team qualified early. Tabea Kemme (November 27, 2013 against Croatia) and Pauline Bremer (April 10, 2014 against Slovenia) made their first international appearances during qualification .

In total, national coach Silvia Neid used 27 players, of which only Dzsenifer Marozsán took part in all ten games. Annike Krahn , Simone Laudehr and Anja Mittag came to nine missions .

With 62 goals Germany scored the most goals of all teams. The most goals for the German team were scored by Anja Mittag (11), Célia Šašić (9), Dzsenifer Marozsán (8), Fatmire Alushi and Nadine Keßler (5 each).

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. GermanyGermany Germany  10  10  0  0 062: 400 +58 30th
 2. RussiaRussia Russia  10  7th  1  2 019:180  +1 22nd
 3. IrelandIreland Ireland  10  5  2  3 013: 900  +4 17th
 4th CroatiaCroatia Croatia  10  2  2  6th 007:200 −13 08th
 5. SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia  10  2  0  8th 007:340 −27 06th
 6th SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia  10  1  1  8th 006:290 −23 04th
Germany - Russia on September 21, 2013 in Cottbus 9: 0 (4: 0)
1-0 Célia Šašić (22nd, penalty), 2-0, 8-0 Nadine Keßler (25th, 85th), 3-0, 4-0 Dzsenifer Marozsán (26th, 28th),
5-0 Fatmire Alushi (73.), 6: 0 Melanie Leupolz (76.), 7: 0 Lena Goeßling (80.), 9: 0 Bianca Schmidt (87.)
Slovenia - Germany on October 26, 2013 in Koper 0:13 (0: 7)
0: 1, 0: 6, 0:10 Célia Šašić (4th, penalty, 32nd, 66th), 0: 2 Leonie Maier (10th), 0: 3, 0: 5, 0: 9 Anja Mittag ( 16., 20., 65.),
0: 4 Annike Krahn (19.), 0: 7 Simone Laudehr (42.), 0: 8 Fatmire Alushi (62.), 0:11, 0:12 Lena Goeßling ( 85., 87.), 0:13 Alexandra Popp (90.)
Germany - Croatia on October 30, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main 4: 0 (0: 0)
1-0 Célia Šašić (52nd), 2-0, 3-0 Helenna Hercigonja-Moulton (56th, 62nd, own goals), 4-0 Luisa Wensing (80th)
Slovakia - Germany on November 23, 2013 in Žilina 0: 6 (0: 1)
0: 1, 0: 4 Nadine Keßler (8th, 83rd), 0: 2, 0: 3 Anja Mittag (57th, 65th), 0: 5 Alexandra Popp (84), 0: 6 Dzsenifer Marozsán (87th) .)
Croatia - Germany on November 27, 2013 in Osijek 0: 8 (0: 3)
0: 1, 0: 3, 0: 5, 0: 7 Dzsenifer Marozsán (12th, 22nd, 65th, 81st), 0: 2 Célia Šašić (13th),
0: 4 Anja Mittag (53rd) , 0: 6 Alexandra Popp (72.), 0: 8 Saskia Bartusiak (90.)
Ireland - Germany on April 5, 2014 in Dublin 2: 3 (1: 0)
1: 0 Louise Quinn (2nd), 1: 1 Simone Laudehr (65th, penalty), 1: 2 Lena Lotzen (84th), 2: 2 Stephanie Roche (89th), 2: 3 Melanie Leupolz (90th) )
Germany - Slovenia on April 10, 2014 in Mannheim 4: 0 (2: 0)
1-0 Melanie Leupolz (18th), 2-0, 4-0 Anja Mittag (21st 67th), 3-0 Lena Lotzen (63rd)
Germany - Slovakia on May 8, 2014 in Osnabrück 9: 1 (5: 0)
1: 0, 3: 0, 6: 0 Fatmire Alushi (2nd, 35th, 69th), 2: 0, 9: 0 Anja Mittag (24th, 81st), 4: 0 Nadine Keßler (39th) ,
5: 0 Dzsenifer Marozsán (40th), 7: 0 Melanie Leupolz (74th), 8: 0 Simone Laudehr (76th), 9: 1 Alexandra Bíróová (85th)
Russia - Germany on September 13, 2014 in Moscow 1: 4 (1: 3)
0: 1 Simone Laudehr (6th), 1: 1 Ksenia Tsybutovich (9th, penalty), 1: 2, 1: 3, 1: 4 Célia Šašić (19th, 28th, 72nd)
Germany - Ireland on September 17, 2014 in Heidenheim 2: 0 (2: 0)
1-0 Melanie Behringer (28th), 2-0 Anja Mittag (34th)

The team

Contingent

On May 11th, an expanded squad with 27 players was named. The final squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), which must be communicated to the FIFA general secretariat at least ten working days before the opening match, was announced on 24 May.

Fatmire Alushi canceled her participation on May 15th due to pregnancy , world soccer player Nadine Keßler is absent due to an injury.

number Surname Date of birth debut society Calls Gates World Cup games Last use World Cup 2015
Sp. Gates yellow cards Yellow-red cards Red cards
goal
01 Nadine Angerer (C)Captain of the crew November 10, 1978 1996 United StatesUnited States Portland Thorns FC 146 - 10 ( 1999 , 2003 , 2007, 2011) 4th July 2015 7th 0 0 0 0
21st Laura Benkarth October 14, 1992 - Sc freiburg - - - 0 0 0 0 0
12 Almuth Schult February 9, 1991 2012 VfL Wolfsburg P. 20th - 0 ( 2011 ) March 11, 2015 0 0 0 0 0
Defense
03 Saskia Bartusiak September 9, 1982 2007 1. FFC Frankfurt C 85 1 5 (2007, 2011) 4th July 2015 5 0 2 0 0
15th Jennifer Cramer February 24, 1993 2013 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 23 - 20th June 2015 2 0 0 0 0
17th Josephine Henning September 8, 1989 2010 FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain 26th - April 8, 2015 1 0 0 0 0
22nd Tabea Kemme December 14, 1991 2013 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 19th - 4th July 2015 6th 0 0 0 0
05 Annike Krahn July 1, 1985 2005 FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain 123 5 9 (2007, 2011) June 30, 2015 6th 0 1 0 0
04th Leonie Maier 29th September 1992 2013 FC Bayern Munich M 30th 3 June 30, 2015 5 0 1 0 0
14th Babett Peter May 12, 1988 2006 VfL Wolfsburg P. 92 4th 4 ( 2007 , 2011) 4th July 2015 3 0 0 0 0
02 Bianca Schmidt January 23, 1990 2009 1. FFC Frankfurt C 50 3 2 (2011) 4th July 2015 2 0 0 0 0
midfield
07th Melanie Behringer November 18, 1985 2005 FC Bayern Munich M 108 27 9 (2007, 2011) 4th July 2015 4th 1 0 0 0
23 Sara Däbritz February 15, 1995 2013 Sc freiburg 21st 2 4th July 2015 5 2 0 0 0
20th Lena Goessling March 8, 1986 2008 VfL Wolfsburg P. 78 8th 2 (2011) 4th July 2015 6th 0 1 0 0
06th Simone Laudehr July 12, 1986 2007 1. FFC Frankfurt C 94 25th 9 (2007, 2011) 4th July 2015 6th 1 0 0 0
16 Melanie Leupolz April 14, 1994 2013 FC Bayern Munich M 34 6th 4th July 2015 6th 1 1 0 0
09 Lena Lotzen September 11, 1993 2012 FC Bayern Munich M 25th 4th 20th June 2015 3 0 0 0 0
10 Dzsenifer Marozsán April 18, 1992 2010 1. FFC Frankfurt C 53 26th June 30, 2015 5 1 1 0 0
attack
08th Pauline Bremer April 10, 1996 2014 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 6th - June 11, 2015 1 0 0 0 0
11 Anja noon May 16, 1985 2004 SwedenSweden FC Rosengård 127 38 1 (2007) 4th July 2015 7th 5 1 0 0
19th Lena Petermann 5th February 1994 2015 Sc freiburg 5 2 4th July 2015 3 2 0 0 0
18th Alexandra Popp April 6, 1991 2010 VfL Wolfsburg P. 59 28 4 (2011) 4th July 2015 6th 1 0 0 0
13 Celia Šašić June 27, 1988 2005 1. FFC Frankfurt C 111 63 4 (2011) 4th July 2015 7th 6th 0 0 0
Coaching staff
trainer Silvia Neid May 2, 1964 2005 German Football Association 111
144
48 7 (1991, 1995)
6 (2003)
10 (2007, 2011)
7th 0 0 0
Co-trainer Ulrike Ballweg September 17, 1965 2005 German Football Association 144 10 (2007, 2011) 7th 0 0 0
Goalkeeping coach Michael Fuchs 4th January 1970 2007 German Football Association 10 (2007, 2011) 7th 0 0 0
  1. As of May 11, 2015 (C = Champions League winner, M = champions, P = cup winners of the 2014/15 season)
  2. a b Status: July 4th, 2015 after the last game
  3. Before the 2015 World Cup
  4. From the 2015/16 season Bayer Leverkusen ( Bayer signs World and European Champion Krahn ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.fifa.com
  5. From the 2015/16 season 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
  6. From the 2015/16 season Olympique Lyon
  7. From the 2015/16 season Paris Saint-Germain
  8. Contract terminated at the end of the 2014/15 season.
  9. a b c As a player
  10. a b As a trainer
  11. a b c As assistant trainer
  12. As a goalkeeper coach

Players not included

Surname Date of birth debut society Calls Gates World Cup games Last use
goal
Lisa White October 29, 1987 2010 SGS Essen 1 - February 17, 2010
Defense
Kathrin Hendrich April 6, 1992 2014 1. FFC Frankfurt C 8th - March 11, 2015
midfield
Anna paleness February 27, 1987 2015 VfL Wolfsburg P. 2 - April 8, 2015
  1. As of May 11, 2015 (C = Champions League winner, M = champions, P = cup winners of the 2014/15 season)
  2. a b Status: April 8, 2015
  3. Before the 2015 World Cup

preparation

The German team at the Algarve Cup 2015 before the game for 3rd place

Germany began preparing for the World Cup immediately after successfully qualifying against three teams from the top 10 of the FIFA world rankings . It was initially lost on October 25, 2014 in Offenbach am Main with 0-2 against France . Four days later they won 2-1 against Sweden in Örebro , with the game being played on artificial turf, as the World Cup will also be played on artificial turf. On November 23, 2014 they beat England 3-0 at London's Wembley Stadium .

From February 7th to 12th - before the start of the second half of the Bundesliga season - the team completed a training camp in Marbella, Spain , where an artificial turf pitch was also available. From March 4 to 11, the team, like eight other World Cup participants, took part in the traditional Algarve Cup in Portugal , in which Germany was the defending champion. Germany met Sweden again in the group stage on March 4th (2: 4 after 2-0 lead) and on March 6th against China (2-0) and then met South American champions Brazil on March 9th and won 3: 1. In the game against China, Lena Petermann started her first international game, later Anna Blässer and Margarita Gidion came on for their first international appearances. Gidion had to come on in stoppage time for Luisa Wensing, who left with a broken calf . On March 11th, the team traded as the best runner-up in the final game for third place again on Sweden, who missed the final as the third-best group winner and were able to retaliate with a 2-1 for the opening defeat. From April 2nd, another eight-day course with an international match against Brazil (4-0) took place in Fürth on April 8th . From May 18th - after the end of the Bundesliga season - the direct preparation for the World Cup began, which ended with a 3-1 win in the last test match against Switzerland on May 27th in Baden in the Esp stadium on artificial turf. On May 31st, the team flew from Frankfurt am Main to Ottawa .

Games at the World Cup

Soccer World Cup 2015 / Germany (Canada)
Ottawa (VR / AF)
Ottawa  (VR / AF)
Winnipeg (VR)
Winnipeg (VR)
Montreal (VF / HF)
Montreal (VF / HF)
Edmonton (S3)
Edmonton (S3)
Venues

When the groups were drawn, Germany was the head of the group alongside hosts Canada, defending champions Japan, the USA, Brazil and France and was assigned to group B.

In the group games, the German team met their last opponents in the European Championship finals, Norway, and the newcomers to the World Cup, Ivory Coast and Thailand . Norway is the most common opponent of the German team. Up until the World Cup there had been 38 games between the two of them, 19 of which were won, five ended in a draw and 14 were lost. The goal difference is also positive at 66:49. They met twice at world championships: in 1995 in the final, which the Norwegians won 2-0 and thus their only world title to date, and in 2007 in the semifinals, which Germany won 3-0 on the way to their second world title. The last defeat against Norway had to be accepted on July 17, 2013 in the European Championship group game. But then the European Championship final and a group game at the Algarve Cup 2014 were won against the Scandinavians. Germany had never played against the other two group opponents.

In the second-weakest and most unbalanced group, in which two ex-world champions met in the group stage for the first time at a women's World Cup, Germany topped the world rankings first met the worst-placed World Cup participant Ivory Coast in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup (67th place) ) and won 10-0, with Anja Mittag and Célia Šašić each scoring three goals. In the second group match, only one goal was scored against Norway, which was 11th in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup, but dominated the first half. In the second half, Norway was able to make the game more evenly and equalized with a directly converted free kick. Despite the efforts to score the winner, it remained at 1: 1. Against the world number twenty-ninth Thailand, Silvia Neid spared seven regular players, u. a. with a yellow card loaded Saskia Bartusiak . Nevertheless, the German team created a large number of chances to score, but could only use one of them in the first half through Melanie Leupolz's first World Cup goal , who was named “Player of the Game” after the game. In the second section, substitute Lena Petermann increased to 3-0 with her first two international goals before Sara Däbritz was able to make the final score of 4-0. Germany scored the most goals in the group games and Anja Mittag was the top scorer in the group games with four goals .

As group winners, Germany saved itself some travel stress and met an old friend in the round of 16 on June 20, 2015, namely Sweden (third in group D) and was able to fly back to Ottawa. Before that, there were 24 games between the two of them, of which Germany won 17, including the most important games (2003 World Cup, 1995 and 2001 European Championship finals and 2013 European Championship semi-finals). The Swedes won seven games, most recently in the preliminary round of the Algarve Cup 2015 after falling 2-0 down. There has never been a draw between the two - but three extra times, each with the better end for Germany, two of them through the golden goal, which has now been abolished . In the World Cup finals, both met three times before, in 1991 in the game for third place they both met for the first time and the Swedes won 4-0, with the current Swedish coach Pia Sundhage scoring a goal. Four years later, the Swedes also won the group matches as hosts, this time 3-2 after falling 2-0 and Sundhage scored again. Silvia Neid , who also played in this game, nevertheless won the group with Germany and advanced to the final. Eight years later, Sweden and Germany met in the final and Germany won 2-1 through golden goal. Silvia Neid experienced the triumph as assistant coach, Sundhage was already head coach of the Boston Breakers in the WPS at the time . Even in the 25th meeting, the German team was able to prevail with a concentrated performance, the only downer was the second yellow card for Saskia Bartusiak , who is thus suspended in the quarter-finals. An old friend is waiting there in France , for which the German team traveled by bus to Montreal , just under 200 km away . There have been 13 games against France so far with eight wins, two draws and three defeats - the last time on October 25, 2014, with 0-2, the first in a home game against the French. Four years earlier, both were group opponents in the World Cup and Germany won the game for group victory 4-2.

The German team hardly got into the game against the dominating French women and was lucky that it was still 0-0 at halftime. After a defensive mistake, the French deservedly took the lead in the 64th minute. Germany pushed for the equalizer and were lucky that the Canadian referee Carol Chenard , who led the first group game against Ivory Coast, decided on a penalty in a handball in the French penalty area. Célia Šašić transformed this with her 6th goal to equalize. Both teams then tried unsuccessfully to decide the game in regular time and then remained unsuccessful in extra time when the forces waned. In the then due penalty shootout, the first nine shooters were successful before Angerer was able to parry the last penalty and Germany moved into the next round.

Opponents in the semi-finals, which also took place in Montreal, were the USA . Both met for the third time in the semi-finals, which is the most common semi-final pairing of the World Cup. Both of them had won one game before, after the last Germany became world champion in 2003. There was also a game in the quarterfinals that the USA won in 1999. Overall, the USA was the only team to win the most games against Germany: 20 of 31 games, seven ended in a draw, and Germany won four times. In a more competitive game, the US girls had better chances to score, especially in the first half. In the second half, Germany came into play a little better and had a chance to take the lead from a penalty, but Célia Šašić put him next to the goal. Carli Lloyd was more successful with a penalty after a foul on the edge of the penalty area. When Germany pushed for the equalizer, the USA increased it to 2-0. This left the small final for the German team, where they met England, which they had never lost to before. In contrast to the two previous games, Germany was now the dominant team again, but could not use the scoring opportunities created. Towards the end of regular time England got stronger and Germany was lucky to go goalless in extra time. There the first half remained without a goal, but shortly after the renewed break, England received a controversial penalty, which Fara Williams used to secure their first win against Germany. After 1991, Germany lost the game for third place for the second time.

Germany fell back to second place in the world rankings due to the games at the World Cup, as the victories against the Ivory Coast and Thailand brought no or only a few points, but many points were lost in particular through the draw against Norway and the defeats against the USA and England.

Group games

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. GermanyGermany Germany  3  2  1  0 015: 100 +14 07th
 2. NorwayNorway Norway  3  2  1  0 008: 200  +6 07th
 3. ThailandThailand Thailand  3  1  0  2 003:100  −7 03
 4th Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast  3  0  0  3 003:160 −13 00
Sun June 7, 2015 in Ottawa
Germany - Ivory Coast 10: 0 (5: 0)
Thursday June 11, 2015 in Ottawa
Germany - Norway 1: 1 (1: 0)
Mon., June 15, 2015, in Winnipeg
Thailand - Germany 0: 4 (0: 1)

Knockout round

Main formation of the German team
Round of 16, Sat., June 20, 2015, 4:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Ottawa
Germany - Sweden 4: 1 (2: 0)
Quarter-finals, Fri., June 26, 2015, 4:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Montreal
Germany - France 1: 1 n.V., 5: 4 i. E. (1: 1, 0: 0)
Semi-finals, Tue., June 30, 2015, 7:00 p.m. (Wed. July 1, 1:00 a.m. CEST) in Montreal
United States - Germany 2: 0 (0: 0)
3rd place game on Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (Saturday, July 4, 10:00 p.m. CEST) in Edmonton
Germany - England 0: 1 a.d. (0: 0)

With the exception of the game against Thailand and the game for third place, Germany essentially started with a regular formation that only changed due to Saskia Bartusiak's suspension from defense and the injury to Melanie Leupolz in the first game in midfield.

Awards

Célia Šašić was awarded the Golden Boot as the best goalscorer and Anja Mittag was awarded the Bronze Shoe as the third best goalscorer. Both - as well as Nadine Angerer - were also nominated for the All-Star-Team . Šašić was also voted Footballer of the Year and the Best Player in Europe in Germany.

Trivia

The game against Ivory Coast was directed by Carol Chenard . The Canadian was also a referee in the two finals of the U-20 World Cup in 2010 and 2014 - Germany won the title against Nigeria in both games.

By reaching the semi-finals, each player received 30,000 euros. In third place, each player would have received 45,000 euros, 65,000 euros for a World Cup victory and 55,000 euros as runner-up world champion.

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