[olafgb]

Rudi Völler announced the team for the first qualifier next week Saturday in Kaunas/Lithuania:

Goal: Kahn, Lehmann
Defence: Baumann, Hertzsch, Kehl, Linke, Metzelder, Ramelow, Ziege
Midfield: Ballack, Böhme, Frings, Hamann, Jeremies, Schneider
Offence: Asamoah, Jancker, Klose, Neuville, Zickler.

[Brihodge]

Wow, practically the WC squad, guess the younger guys didn't impress much in the last friendly.

[KarlMai]

You're right, Brihodge, but... on the other hand that's really great, because if they had really impressed, who should have played for the "Team 2006"?

(thinking if I should post an own thread for this team's match, or just include it here...hm)

[Ethel The Frog]

The lineup is not that surprising given that this is the very beginning of qualifiers. Rudi won't want to take big risks in actual qualifiers until Germany has a solid lead.

Linke is the surprise to me. I guess I just under-rate him.

Also, I thought that Deisler was healthy, but have not seen him in recent Bayern lineups and he is not listed below.

[wolfsburgh]

I believe that Deisler is still recuperating and is not expected to play for Bayern until after the winter break (and therefore would not likely be selected for NT games for some time after that).

[olafgb]

Originally posted by Ethel The Frog
The lineup is not that surprising given that this is the very beginning of qualifiers. Rudi won't want to take big risks in actual qualifiers until Germany has a solid lead.

Linke is the surprise to me. I guess I just under-rate him.

Also, I thought that Deisler was healthy, but have not seen him in recent Bayern lineups and he is not listed below.

Linke is something like a standby national player. He's just coming in important emergency cases. Regarding Deisler read wolfsburgh's comment.

The only ones I'm complaining about are Hertzsch (no international standard, even Friedrich with 3 BL games is better), Jancker (no season game/no shape yet), Zickler (no regular player) and Asamoah (no shape/used as defender in Schalke).

[Alex_K]

Originally posted by KarlMai
You're right, Brihodge, but... on the other hand that's really great, because if they had really impressed, who should have played for the "Team 2006"?

(thinking if I should post an own thread for this team's match, or just include it here...hm)

Let's do it here
The squad for the game against Turkey B (9-6)

Goal: Timo Hildebrand (VfB Stuttgart), Roman Weidenfeller (Borussia Dortmund
Defence: Frank Fahrenhorst (VfL Bochum), Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC Berlin), Benjamin Lense (Arminia Bielefeld), Martin Meichelbeck (VfL Bochum), Timo Wenzel (VfB Stuttgart)
Midfield: Tim Borowski, Fabian Ernst (beide Werder Bremen), Peer Kluge, Bernd Korzynietz (beide Borussia Mönchengladbach), Markus Kreuz (1. FC Köln), Sebastian Schindzielorz (VfL Bochum)
Offence: Daniel Bierofka (Bayer Leverkusen), Markus Daun (Werder Bremen), Paul Freier (VfL Bochum), Marco Vorbeck (Hansa Rostock), Clemens Fritz (Karlsruher SC)

Projekt 04/06, Projekt 04/06, Prooooooojeeeeekt nuuuuulll-vierrrrrr/nuuuullllll-säääääächssssssss

[olafgb]

Originally posted by Alex_K

Projekt 04/06, Projekt 04/06, Prooooooojeeeeekt nuuuuulll-vierrrrrr/nuuuullllll-säääääächssssssss

So, your opinion on the hot yesterday issues:

- which players of Viktoria Köln make it to the 2006 roster?
- who was having sex with Claudia Strunz-Effenberg on the tribune while her husband was playing?

[Alex_K]

Originally posted by olafgb


So, your opinion on the hot yesterday issues:

- which players of Viktoria Köln make it to the 2006 roster?
- who was having sex with Claudia Strunz-Effenberg on the tribune while her husband was playing?

1.: Viktoria's Jancker. Or one of Ratingen's players(Viktoria didn't impress me much).

2.: They are married ? I don't think that it was Matthäus. Maybe Peter Pander ?

[olafgb]

Originally posted by Alex_K


1.: Viktoria's Jancker. Or one of Ratingen's players(Viktoria didn't impress me much).

2.: They are married ? I don't think that it was Matthäus. Maybe Peter Pander ?

Well, actually the whole level seemed to be quite low in this game.

No, they aren't married. Pander is a good guess - something like the Geenen/Angela Häßler combination, huh? I didn't expect that Wolfsburg is caring that much for Effenberg that they even entertain the girlfriend during the game