The Germany national football team represents Germany in men’s international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, founded in 1900. Between 1949 and 1990, separate German national teams were recognised by FIFA due to Allied occupation and division. The present team represents the reunified Federal Republic. Germany is one of the most successful national teams in international competitions, having won four World Cups, three European Championships and one Confederations Cup.
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The Germany national football team represents Germany in men’s international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, founded in 1900. Between 1949 and 1990, separate German national teams were recognised by FIFA due to Allied occupation and division. The present team represents the reunified Federal Republic. Germany is one of the most successful national teams in international competitions, having won four World Cups, three European Championships and one Confederations Cup. At the end of the 2014 World Cup, Germany earned the highest Elo rating of any national team in history, with a record 2,205 points. The manager of the national team is Joachim Löw. Julius Hirsch was the first Jewish player to represent the Germany national team, which he joined in 1911. Gottfried Fuchs scored a world record 10 goals for Germany in a 16–0 win against Russia at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm on 1 July, becoming the top scorer of the tournament. His international record was not surpassed until 2001 when Australia’s Archie Thompson scored 13 goals in a 31–0 defeat of American Samoa. The German FA could not afford travel to Uruguay for the first World Cup staged in 1930 during the Great Depression, but finished third in the 1934 World Cup in their first appearance in the competition. After World War II, Germany was banned from competition in most sports until 1950 and was not a full FIFA member until 1950.
In the 1938 World Cup that began on 4 June, this German team managed only a 1–1 draw against Switzerland and then lost the 2–4 replay in front of a hostile crowd in Paris, France. That stands as Germany’s worst exit from the World Cup as Germany failed to progress to the group stage on just two of just two occasions. East Germany won Olympic Gold in 1976. After Austria became part of Germany in the Anschluss of March 1938, that country’s national team – one of Europe’s best sides at the time due to professionalism – was disbanded. At that time the players were selected by the DFB, as there was no dedicated coach. The first manager was Otto Nerz, a school teacher from Mannheim, who served in the role from 1926 to 1936. After a poor showing at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Sepp Herberger became coach. In 1937 he put together a squad which was soon nicknamed the Breslau Elf in recognition of their 8 0 win over Denmark in the then German city of BresLau, Lower Silesia. The DFB’s team representing the Federal Republic of Germany is known as ‘Germany FR’ The official name and code was shortened to ‘Germany’ following reunification in 1990. Germany is the only European nation that has won a FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women’s World Cup. In 1954, Germany’s first championship title was even won in Switzerland in 1954. The first match after World War I in 1920, the first match with former East German players were all against Switzerland as well.
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