World Cup winner Phillipp Lahm thinks Germany need to stand united following opening game loss to Mexico.
Germany’s Manuel Neuer insists the squad get on well as a team despite not having a wealth of World Cup experience.
Raphael Honigstein joins the FC panel to discuss the ramifications of Germany’s defeat to Mexico, Mats Hummels’ postmatch comments and more.
Craig Burley believes if Germany are to rebound from their “Mexico wake-up call”, they’ll need to rethink both their tactics and starting XI.
MOSCOW — Predictably, the German ambassador had to get involved in this, the most political of World Cups and, on Monday, he did.
The ambassador for Germany’s Euro 2024 bid, to give him his official title, happens to be the World Cup-winning captain of four year ago, but Philipp Lahm commented on the Nationalmannschaft’s awful defeat to Mexico with such diplomatic finesse that one could be forgiven for thinking the 34-year-old had recently graduated from the foreign ministry’s school for international…