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German goalkeeper Bodo Illgner became the first ever goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in the final of a FIFA World Cup in 1990. [6] Oliver Kahn won the golden ball award at the 2002 World Cup, thus becoming the only goalkeeper in the history of the competition to be selected as the best player of the tournament. [7]
German championships have included clubs from countries other than Germany. [5] DFC Prag, vice-champions in the first national final and a founding member of the DFB, was an ethnically-German club from Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today part of the Czech Republic) which did not at the time have its own national football federation.
In November, he was the only German goalkeeper in the list of five nominated goalkeepers for the UEFA Team of the Year. [44] Neuer finished the 2009–10 season with 39 appearances. [45] For the 2010–11 season, Neuer was appointed captain and led the team to its first Champions League semi-final appearance to play against Manchester United. [46]
Germany lost 0–2 thanks to two Ronaldo goals. [80] Nevertheless, German captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball, [81] the first time in the World Cup that a goalkeeper was named the best player of the tournament. [82] Fans watching Germany play against Argentina in the 2006 World Cup match at the Donau Arena in Regensburg
Germany is one of only two nations to have won both the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup. [7] [8] At the end of the 2014 World Cup, Germany earned the highest Elo rating of any national football team in history, with a record 2,205 points. [9] Germany is also the only European nation that has won a FIFA World Cup in the Americas.
German domestic competitions organised by the DFB, and the DFL; 1ª: Bundesliga, [2] former German football championship (1902–1963) CUP: DFB-Pokal [2] LCUP: DFL-Ligapokal [2] (Defunct) SCUP: DFL-Supercup, [2] former DFB-Supercup European continental competitions organised by UEFA; UCL: UEFA Champions League, [3] former European Champion ...
Record number of penalty goals in a single professional league of Europe (26 in 1. Bundesliga); includes three goals in UEFA Champions League (record for a goalkeeper), one in the German League Cup, one in the 2. Bundesliga, one in the 2. Bundesliga play-off, and one in the 3. Liga. [34] [35] Misael Alfaro El Salvador: 1988–2010
Spent their entire professional career with Bayern Munich. Part of the Bayern Munich hall of fame. Franz Beckenbauer was the captain of Bayern's successful side of the 1970s Oliver Kahn was Bayern's goalkeeper from 1994 to 2008, and captain from 2002 Goalkeeper Sepp Maier made 473 Bundesliga appearances between 1962 and 1980, more than any other Bayern player Lothar Matthäus was a star player ...