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🚨 Heavy defeat in Zurich, Sweden too strong for shaky Germany women
The dream of winning the group is over. At Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, the DFB women lost clearly to Sweden with a score of 1:4 and finish Group C as runners-up. Strong for the future: With retirement planning from ERGO, tailored to the needs of women. At first, everything actually looked good. Germany started with pressure, created several chances right from the beginning, and took the lead as a result. Advertisement But after the 1:0 by Jule Brand (7th minute), the game turned. The Blågult took control and went ahead through Stina Blackstenius (12th minute) and Smilla Holmberg (25th minute). Things got even worse for the Wück team after that. Carlotta Wamser cleared the ball off the line with her hand in the 31st minute, caused a penalty, and had to leave the field with a red card. Fridolina Rolfö took responsibility and increased the score to 3:1 from the Swedish perspective. After that, the DFB team nervously made it to the locker room. Again and again, especially the newly formed defense together with goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger made some hair-raising mistakes. No turnaround in the second half The second half also failed to bring a real turnaround. Although the German women stabilized, there was no real sign of a fightback. The Swedish team, meanwhile, managed their lead and repeatedly launched skillful attacks – as they did in the 80th minute. Advertisement After a passing sequence around the German penalty area, Lina Hurtig only had to tap the ball in and scored to make it 4:1 for coach Peter Gerhardsson's team. That's how it would end. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. 📸 SEBASTIEN BOZON - AFP or licensors
DW
10-07-2025
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Germany updates: Railroad operator seeks modernization delay – DW – 07/10/2025
Railway operator Deutsche Bahn wants to delay modernization projects for a further year. Volkswagen has stopped delivering its to the US, with US tariffs cited as one reason. Read more here. State-owned German national railroad operator Deutsche Bahn has said it wants to delay modernization plans for key routes by another year to 2036 after it previously suggested a four-year delay to 2035 in late June. The refurbishment of more than 40 high-use railroad lines nationwide is now to take at least five years longer than was originally planned. German carmaker Volkswagen has put a temporary stop to deliveries of its electric van model to the US, a newspaper says, quoting sources at the firm as saying US tariffs were one factor in the move. Meanwhile, spot checks put in place by Poland are causing difficulties to people living on both sides of the German-Polish border. Germany's Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM) has ordered a block on the website "Kalifat" for spreading Islamist propaganda and violating democratic principles. The German-language site threatens Germany's free democratic order, the KJM said Thursday in Berlin. The action was initiated by the state media authority in North Rhine-Westphalia. Despite a ban on the group behind the site since 2003, the site remained accessible in Germany. Regional media regulators have now ordered the country's five biggest telecom companies to block it, and the orders have already been enforced. "We oppose anyone who spreads hate and agitates against our free democracy," said Tobias Schmid, director of the North Rhine-Westphalia state media authority, which launched the case. KJM chair Marc Jan Eumann added: "Anyone who incites hatred against people of other faiths stands against all of us and will be stopped with every legal tool we have." The KJM, part of Germany's network of state media authorities, is responsible for tackling illegal hate and extremist content online. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The German Football Association (DFB) has surpassed eight million members for the first time, posting a 3.86% increase over the past year. Youngsters in general — and girls in particular — have been the driving force. "It's a strong sign that football in Germany continues to grow in our 125th anniversary year," DFB President Bernd Neuendorf said on Thursday in Frankfurt. The biggest boost came among girls under 16, where membership rose by 9%. Compared to 2021, the DFB has gained nearly a million new memberships overall. "Our clubs provide a great service to society and our communities. That's more important than ever in these turbulent times," Neuendorf said. The number of referees is also on the rise: for the first time in nearly a decade, more than 60,000 officials are active. While the share of female referees remains steady at 4.5%, the overall share of girls and women in DFB membership continues to grow. Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the largest opposition party in the German federal parliament, will not be allowed to take on jobs within the public service in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the state government has said. Anyone applying for a position in public service will have to declare that they are not a member of an extremist organization and have not been one for the past five years, said state Interior Minister Michael Ebling. He said the state's domestic intelligence agency has found enough evidence of extremist activities by the local AfD branch for the party to be put on a list of anti-constitutional bodies whose members will be banned from public service jobs. The move by the state comes after Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, classified the AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist group in early May, a classification that is currently suspended during an appeal by the party. The move has sparked a renewed debate about banning the AfD. State-owned German national railroad operator Deutsche Bahn has said it wants to delay modernization plans for key routes by another year to 2036 after it previously suggested a four-year delay to 2035 in late June. The refurbishment of more than 40 high-use railroad lines nationwide is now to take at least five years longer than was originally planned. The modernization of German railroads is seen as urgently needed to prevent the frequent delays and malfunctions currently suffered by passengers and freight companies. The Association of Freight Railways has said it approves of the planned further postponement of the modernization projects, saying it will allow them to be better prepared. Last year, Deutsche Bahn successfully refurbished the line between Frankfurt and Mannheim, the first such project to be completed. From August, the key line between Berlin and Hamburg is to be closed off for months while modernization is carried out. Authorities in eastern Germany have arrested two people, a 53-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman, who are suspected of holding a 19-year-old woman hostage in a barn. Police freed the woman from the barn in the town of Vogelsberg in the state of Thuringia on Tuesday after being alerted by her calls for help during a search of a property, according to broadcaster MDR. She was reportedly trapped in a box. The young woman had been reported missing in Vogelsberg on Sunday, with police launching an immediate search operation, as she was reported to be on medication. Germany's Federal Statistical Office on Wednesday confirmed that the country's inflation rate was at 2% in June, the lowest monthly figure since October 2024. The figure is down 0.1 of a percentage point from May. The European Central Bank (ECB) has set a target of precisely 2% inflation for the eurozone. In recent years, consumer prices have stabilized in Germany after the high of 8.8% inflation in late 2022 driven by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, has forecast inflation to remain around 2% in the coming months. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has called on Israel to save "hundreds of thousands" of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from dying of starvation and to give them the aid they need. "That is Israel's obligation. International aid organizations must immediately be granted comprehensive access to be able to bring humanitarian aid to the people," he said on Thursday before traveling to Vienna, Austria, where he was to meet his Israeli counterpart. Wadephul also called on the Palestinian militant group Hamas to lay down its arms and to release any hostages it is still holding in the Gaza Strip. He said Palestinians needed to have a future in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem for there to be a long-lasting peace, but that it should be without Hamas as rulers in Gaza. "Never again must a massacre like that on October 7, 2023, be conducted," he said, referring to Hamas-led raids in southern Israel on that date in which some 1,200 people, most civilians, were killed and around 250 hostages taken. Israel responded to the attacks with an offensive in Gaza against Hamas in which more than 57,000 Palestinians have so far been killed, according to figures provided by authorities in the Hamas-run enclave. Police in Australia have issued a public appeal for help as they continue their nationwide search for a 26-year-old German woman who went missing more than a week ago while backpacking in the state of Western Australia. Carolina Wilga was last seen on June 29 at a general store in the small agricultural town of Beacon, situated to the northeast of the state capital, Perth. "Carolina departed that area about five minutes later and has not been seen or heard from since," homicide squad detective senior sergeant Katharine Venn told reporters. Venn said Wilga had planned to travel into remote areas of the state but also to the eastern coast, meaning that the search needed to cover a huge area. She said there was so far no evidence that a third party was involved in the disappearance, but that all lines of inquiry were being followed. Police said Wilga has spent two years in Australia backpacking and working at mine sites in Western Australia. daily later reported that a van belonging to Wilga had been found unattended near Karroun Hill, some 300 km (186 miles) northeast of Perth. The paper said that the vehicle appeared to have suffered mechanical issues. Residents living at the border between Germany and Poland have long been used to traveling freely and easily between the two countries. But now, Poland has introduced spot border checks, following a similar move by Germany in October 2023. And although authorities promised that EU nationals would not suffer inconvenience, people in the region say otherwise, as this report from DW describes: German-Polish border checks: 'They make our life difficult' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video German carmaker Volkswagen is currently not delivering its model to the US, according to the daily . The paper cited sources at the company as saying that the high tariffs imposed by the US Trump administration were one reason for the cessation of deliveries, along with a recall because of the dimensions of the electric van's third-row seat. Two people at the company said the tariffs of 27.5% imposed by the US in April on imports of new cars constructed in Europe had been a factor in the move. Previously, tariffs of just 2.5% had been in place. The has also faced a recall by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) because its third-row seats do not meet US federal safety standards. These require seats of that size to have three seatbelts rather than the two currently fitted. VW is reportedly responding to the recall by reducing the size of the seats. On Wednesday, VW said its total vehicle deliveries to North America had fallen almost 7% in the first half of the year, although overall deliveries worldwide had risen by 1.3%. on this sunny day in Bonn, as DW starts with its roundup of news from Germany. Germany's car industry is not just one of the country's major economic drivers, but also a source of national pride, so the reports that carmaker Volkswagen is temporarily stopping delivery of a model to the US is likely to make waves. Germany has also been leading the way in imposing border checks despite the freedom of movement previously guaranteed by the Schengen zone. A reciprocal move by Poland is now making life difficult for residents at the border between the two countries. Here, DW will bring you reports, explainers and analyses on these and other stories from Europe's strongest economy. We wish you enjoyable reading!
Yahoo
10-07-2025
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DFB reaches 8 million members, mainly thanks to young boys and girls
Flags with the logo of the German Football Federation (DFB) fly outside the RheinEnergie stadium. Fabian Strauch/dpa The German Football Federation (DFB) has more than 8 million members for the first time, with youngsters in general and girls in particular the driving force. The DFB said on Thursday that the number of members has risen by 3.86% to 8,005,050 in the 23,868 German clubs. Membership is up by almost 1 million since 2021. Advertisement The biggest growth of 9% came from girls up to 16 years of age, the DFB said. "It is a strong signal that football in Germany continues to grow in many areas at the 125th anniversary of the DFB," its president Bernd Neuendorf said. "The clubs are doing our society a big service. That is more important than ever in these turbulent times." The number of active players has risen to 2.38 million, boosted by the junior game which had 2.15% more players, while the number in the senior men's and women's game was all but unchanged. Registered girls' teams rose by 10%, and 119,000 girls up to 16 make up a rise of 7%, just below the 7.5% from the previous year. The boys' game also saw a rise, slightly lower though. The DFB also said that for the first time in a decade it had more than 60,000 referees, 4.5% of them women.
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10-07-2025
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🔝 Germany climb the world rankings: what this means for the 2026 World Cup
Today, FIFA announced the updated men's world rankings. There is reason for the DFB to rejoice, as the German National Team has climbed to ninth place in the world rankings. While other teams have lost points through the World Cup qualification, this is not the case for the DFB team. Because the defeats in the Nations League do not lead to a deduction of points. As FIFA confirmed, the final tournament of the UEFA competition belongs to this category set out in the "additional conditions" of the rules. Advertisement Ninth place could also have positive effects on the 2026 World Cup. If the Nagelsmann team qualifies for the tournament in the USA, Mexico, and Canada, they would land in the top 1 with the hosts. A preliminary round duel against one of the top teams would then not threaten the DFB team. The draw for the World Cup is expected to take place in early December, reports 'Sky'. Since Germany will be playing against supposedly easy opponents like Slovakia, Northern Ireland, and Luxembourg until then, no major point deduction is threatened and they could defend ninth place against Italy (still playing against Norway, Israel, Estonia, and Moldova). Advertisement This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. 📸 Alex Grimm - 2025 Getty Images
New York Times
09-07-2025
- Sport
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Manchester City Women sign midfielder Sydney Lohmann from Bayern Munich
Manchester City Women have completed the signing of German midfielder Sydney Lohmann from Bayern Munich. Lohmann, 25, has signed a three-year deal with the Women's Super League club and will join up with City following this summer's European Championship in Switzerland. Lohmann made her Bayern debut as a 17-year-old and rose through the ranks to help the Bavarians to four Frauen-Bundesliga titles, including a domestic double in 2024-25, as well as the DFB-Supercup and DFB-Pokal. Advertisement She has won 40 caps for Germany and featured in Euro 2022, the 2024 Olympic Games and this summer's tournament in Switzerland. 'I definitely want to win a title (with City), because I can see that's possible. I think things have probably been quite tough in the last few months or year and everyone is really hungry to do better,' Lohmann said. 'I can tell that by chatting to people and I want to be part of that. I want to contribute with the strengths I have.' City's director of football Therese Sjogran added: 'We're really pleased to bring a player of Sydney's quality and stature to the club. 'She is no stranger to success and her record in Germany and on the world stage speaks for itself. She's a proven winner but also someone who's still hungry to achieve more at the top level, just like City. 'We believe Sydney can be a driving force at the club in our push for silverware next season and beyond.' ()
