The German national football team (German: Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft) is the football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) which was founded in 1900.

Germany participated Euro Cups 9 time in history and they won it three times 1972, 1980,1996. German team is also won Fifa World Cup three times ,1954, 1974, 1990 and they played final match at World Cup 2006 against Brazil.

Germany struglled in Group D in Qualification Round with Czech Republic ,Ireland, Slovakia ,Wales , South Cyprus, San Marino.They finished second in their group after a 0-0 draw against Wales in their final qualifier.

Now Germany is in Group B with Austria, Croatia, Poland.First game of Germany will be against Poland on 8 June 2008 at 20:45 , in Klagenfurt - Wörthersee.

German Players

Goalkeepers:Robert Enke, Timo Hildebrand,Jens Lehmann

Defenders: Gonzalo Castro ,Malik Fathi ,Manuel Friedrich ,Arne Friedrich ,Clemens Fritz ,Marcell Jansen , Philipp Lahm ,Alexander Madlung ,Per Mertesacker ,Christoph Metzelder ,Christian Pander

Midfielders:Michael Ballack ,Tim Borowski ,Paul Freier ,Torsten Frings ,Roberto Hilbert ,Thomas Hitzlsperger , Simon Rolfes ,Jan Schlaudraff ,Bernd Schneider ,Bastian Schweinsteiger ,Piotr Trochowski

Forwards: Gerald Asamoah ,Mario Gómez ,Mike Hanke ,Patrick Helmes ,Stefan Kiessling ,Miroslav Klose , Kevin Kuranyi ,Oliver Neuville ,David Odonkor ,Lukas Podolski

Joachim “Jogi” Löw (born 3 February 1960 in Schönau im Schwarzwald) is the coach of the German national football team and a former German football striker.

Löw started his coaching career as a youth coach for FC Winterthur while he was still active as a player. In 1994–95 he was playing coach of FC Frauenfeld.

In 1995–96 he was assistant coach of VfB Stuttgart with coach Rolf Fringer. As Fringer had the opportunity to become Swiss national coach Löw was promoted caretaker manager in August 1996 and finally team manager.The following year the team reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup, but they lost 0–1 against Chelsea and finished fourth in the Bundesliga.

Löw left Stuttgart in July 1998 and joined Fenerbahçe S.K.. In October 1999 he became coach of Karlsruher SC, but he could not avert relegation to the third division and was dismissed. From December 2000 to March 2001 Löw returned to Turkey as coach of Adanaspor, but he was again dismissed due to poor results.

In October 2001 Löw became coach of FC Tirol Innsbruck and led the team to the Austrian championship in 2002. The same year the club had to declare bankruptcy and was liquidated. Löw was once again unemployed. His next job was with Austria Wien (June 2003 – March 2004), before Löw surprisingly became assistant coach of Germany under Jürgen Klinsmann on 1 August 2004.

On 12 July 2006, following Klinsmann’s decision to not renew his contract, Löw was named as the new head coach of Germany. Löw obtained a contract for two years and announced that he wants to continue in the philosophy developed by Klinsmann and himself. He declared that his aim is to triumph at Euro 2008.

The following the matches Löw’s record stood at 11 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw from 12 matches and a 41:6 goal difference.Now , he will manage team in Euro 2008.Germans are high expectations to him.