Eight seconds. That is how long it took Florian Wirtz to score Germany’s fastest-ever international goal, against France in March 2024. The ball was kicked off, worked forward, and Wirtz had already finished. That moment — quick, clean, almost absurdly precise — is as good a summary of Wirtz as any. He does not wait […]

For most of the twentieth century, one thing in football was virtually guaranteed. However the World Cup unfolded, Germany would be there at the end. They did not always win. But they were always present, always competitive, and almost always dangerous when it mattered most. Four World Cup titles. Three European Championships. Decades of tournament […]