Germany are out. Four-time World Champions, a squad packed with players from elite clubs across Europe, and a nation that expects deep runs at major tournaments — eliminated in the Round of 32 by Paraguay, on penalties, in a shootout that produced a first in German football history. They have never lost a World Cup […]

Watch Germany’s knockout campaign live on ZEE5 FIFA Subscription—  from ₹799 for three months and follow every twist of the FIFA World Cup 2026™.   Germany won the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and has not come close since. 2018: group stage exit. 2022: group stage exit. A nation that once seemed to own the […]

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 […]