A few days before the start of the World Cup, you still have to look very hard to find any real football euphoria in Germany. That is, of course, largely due to political and atmospheric reasons.
But at first glance, the current state of the German national team does not exactly invite dreaming either. The DFB team has most recently been eliminated in the World Cup group stage twice in a row. In addition, after the fairly successful home European Championship in 2024, the next step in development has not yet been taken.
However, just in time for the start of the tournament, Julian Nagelsmann’s team has played its way into truly impressive form. More than that: the current run of nine consecutive wins is their best mark since 1980! Even during the successful Löw years, the four-time world champions never managed such a feat.
After the embarrassing defeat against Slovakia at the start of World Cup qualifying, five competitive wins in a row followed, before they also won the friendlies against Switzerland, Ghana, Finland, and the USA.
Of course, the DFB team did not have to overcome all the truly big football heavyweights during this period. But the fact that even the supposed minnows of world football can cause problems was shown in recent days by France, Spain, and the Netherlands, among others.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.
