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Christian Wörns (Borussia Dortmund) vs. England (1:5) | Friendly | 2001 in Germany
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German football has really reached rock bottom around 2000, at least during my lifetime. We got just a single point in the Euros, drawing against Romania, only a single German club (Bayern) made it to the Champions League knockout stages and Werder Bremen's run to the Quarter Final was the best German performance in the UEFA Cup. But, things got better pretty fast, somehow. Just a year later, Bayern Munich won the Champions League, Kaiserslautern made it to the UEFA Cup semis and Markus Babbel opened the scoring for Liverpool to win that tournament. But then, we played England. And boy, did England play us. In a meaningless friendly, England beat Germany 5:1.
That match caused a bit of an outrage in Germany. Christian Wörns, the player in the picture above, spoke of a "step back into stone age". In England, the media went equally crazy about the match - but obviously much more positive. Today, that match is forgotten in Germany, really. After all, it was just a friendly. As my English friends keep telling me, however, it is still very much remembered in England for obvious reasons.
Now this shirt is matchworn and I paid around 70€ for it. It is not, however, from the A national team, but rather from a youth team. I am not entirely sure from which age level it is, but as I also got the home shirt and some tickets and letters with it, I guess the source was legit and the shirt thus is.