From 1908 to 2024: For the European Championship in Germany, Mirko takes a look at the history of the national football team. Four stars are emblazoned on the jersey of the German national team. Each one represents a win at the World Cup. But it took a long time before the national team could celebrate its first tournament victory. When the German Football Association, or DFB for short, was founded in 1900, German football was still in its infancy. The early days of the national team were characterized by amateur players who received little or no money for their efforts. The national team did not even have a coach at that time. It was not until 1926 that the first national coach, Otto Nerz, took office. While football was also "coordinated" under Nazi rule, the national team developed into a permanent fixture in international competition after the Second World War. The 1954 World Cup victory went down in DFB history as the "miracle of ." But of course the national team also experienced setbacks from time to time. Like in the 1966 World Cup final against England, when the controversial "Wembley goal" may have cost the German team under coach Helmut Schön their second World Cup title. From Helmut Rahn to Franz Beckenbauer to Mario Götze: In this video you will learn everything about the history of our national team in five big games. Chapters: 00:00 Kick-off 01:09 Match 1 02:42 Match 2 06:13 Match 3 07:52 Match 4 12:15 Match 5 13:06 Extra time You can access the video of the women's national team via this link: • Women's football: The long road to acceptance... Literature: DFB: Professor Otto Nerz, URL: https://www.dfb.de/maenner-nationalma.... This: Suddenly on the pitch, URL: https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/ploetz.... Michael Horeni: Instructions for the national football team, Munich 2018. Florian Kinast, The Kings of the World. The history of the football world championships from 1930 to today, Munich 2022. Udo Muras: "Is goal, goal, goal!", URL: https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/wem.... Ders.: WM 1974. Title win in your own country, URL: https://www.dfb.de/maenner-nationalma.... Ronald Reng: 1974. A German-German encounter - When history brought East and West together, Munich 2024. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed.), The history of the football world championship, Göttingen 2008. Be sure to check it out: Terra X History on Instagram: / terraxhistory Terra X in the media library: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terr... Terra X History on YouTube: / @terraxhistory A production of objektiv media GmbH for #TerraX and #ZDF: Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann Author: Tobias Rinn Producer: Andreas Sommer Production assistant: Ann-Kathrin Maubach Editor (OM): Verena Glanos Motion Design: Christian Wischnewski Editing: Christian Wischnewski Thumbnail: David Weber ZDF: Kai Jostmeier, Kim Krämer