DFB review: highs and lows in the year before the World Cup
Dec 30, 2025 8:25 am | 1:35m
The German national soccer team can look back on an eventful year in 2025. What gave you hope and what caused concern about the upcoming World Cup? A review:
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Where does the wind blow for black red gold?
That is also a difficult question.
One to which the answer for most people is five months before the start of the World Cup.
I don’t know.
Because you can’t really grasp them. A team between very.
Very sexy to look at.
And which is sometimes missing.
On everything. Actually.
Example Nations League March 2025 quarter-final against Italy, first half, world class, three to zero lead. Even a ball boy wants to play. But then the break-in. Leadership gone. Another three on three. A game like a reflection of the entire year.
We have to understand that we are not a nation that plays with 95% of the top teams out of the stadium.
Germany then painfully learned that they weren’t enough to beat weaker teams on paper in the World Cup qualifiers (0-2) against Slovakia. Low point Even the World Cup seems in danger. At least in terms of results, things will look up again afterwards. Four wins in a row. But always with the footnote.
I wouldn’t say liberation now.
But he managed to get revenge against Slovakia in the last game of the year. At the World Cup, Germany will face newcomers Curacao, the Ivory Coast and Ecuador.
Not a super easy group, but the group that is doable.
We’ll know more in about five months. Where the wind really blows from.