The DFB is playing a charity match for the victims of this fall's floods which will pit a German Bundesliga XI versus a Foreign Bundesliga XI. There is some sort of voting process for picking the Foreign XI, and I believe it's the fans that get to select (see www.seitenwahl.de for some cursory details). Tony Sanneh appears to be on the ballot (Cherundolo is not) as a defender. Perhaps one of our German posters could explain how one can cast his or her vote for Sanneh (or other favorites, of course).
This won't be too interesting for you as the vote seems to go via phone only (to collect some money with the expensive 0190 numbers). It'll be the regular German NT - without the England and Italy players - picked by Rudi Völler against an international collection. Nominated are the four foreign coaches and each team named two players for the choice (top 5 teams of the last year named three). Nürnberg's choices are Tony Sanneh and Sasa Ciric; Hannover's choices Nebosja Krupnikovic and Mohammadou Idrissou. Sanneh is in the defender section, his rivals are: Lucio, Placente (both Bayer), Sverrisson (Berlin), Oude Kamphuis (Schalke), Verlaat (Bremen), Bordon (Stuttgart), Costa (1860), Madsen (Wolfsburg), Ujfalusi (Hamburg), Strasser (Mönchengladbach), Jakobsson (Rostock) and Kalla (Bochum). I don't how many defenders they'll pick (6 I guess). Against Lucio, Placente, Verlaat and Bordon he won't have a chance.
Don't the best players play in Germany anyway? IE-Ballack, Scholl, Deisler, Novotny, Jeremies, Jancker, Asamoha(horribly spelled), Ramelowe, the dude who scored all those goals in the WC
Well, Ballack is in Germany, the other ones are either injured (Deisler, Nowotny), not exactly German top players (Jeremies, Jancker, Asamoah, Ramelow), retired from the NT (Scholl) or play in Italy (Jancker again - btw. congratulations for his new record: 1 1/2 years as forward without goal in a league competition!!!).
Would be bad if it was up to the ladies only... Frank Verlaat is extremely popular among women, as well as Jolly Sverrisson. Seriously, I think that Lucio, Placente, Bordon and Verlaat have best chances to be chosen for sportive reasons. Schalke and Mönchengladbach might use a huge fan support to bring Oude Kamphuis and Strasser to the game, also Sverrisson is not without chances because of that. Some outsider chances remain for Ujfalusi (a very promising talent, chased e.g. by Arsenal, but he's not popular), Jakobsson (didn't find back to the WC performances in this season so far) and Kalla (good, but unpopular team). Costa and Madsen don't have a real chance. Sanneh would need HUGE fan support, but I don't think he has chances either.
So what the heck happened to Jancker? For three years running up to Bayern's 2001 CL championship, he scored 11-12 goals a season, scored pivitol goals in the CL, was an intregral part of Bayern's success, and was a pretty good all around forward. Nowadays, he's horrible. Has it been injuries? Is it mental? Is he now a boozer? What happened that sent a pretty good forward to being horrible? Sorry, I know this is off topic for this thread, but I was just curious.
No injuries. Mental thing of course for some degree as anyone who doesn't strike loses self-confidence. I think for some degree he was living of the fear of opponents because of his physical apperance. In the Bundesliga he scored 49 goals in 148 games - decent for a striker. But realistically he failed in Cologne and Rostock before going to Austria. There he was successful in a league - with all due respect - that's international B-level. Bayern got him from there, and if you're playing for Bayern you automatically get your chances as you've also got the team mates who feed you. That's also a Bayern phenomenon that some strikers absolutely don't get along there (especially in the 90s they have a huge history of foreign strikers who failed) and others have a good time there and fail afterwards (I remember Carsten Lakies, who was praised to heaven for scoring some goals for Bayern - he now is an at best average D3 player).