"We can't wait to welcome you to Doha." Germany became the first team besides host Qatar to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals, and the official Qatar World Cup poster expressed congratulations and welcome. The German team has been soaring in the World Preliminary Round, and this updated "chariot" is continuing the strong traditions of its predecessors.
In the early morning of October 12, Beijing time, Germany defeated North Macedonia 4-0 in this round of World Preliminary Round, thus advancing to the 2022 Qatar World Cup. With two rounds left in the European World Preliminaries, Germany is already eight points ahead of second-place Romania, thus completing the task of qualifying for the World Cup ahead of schedule. This is already the 18th consecutive time that Germany has qualified for the World Cup finals, and it will also be the 20th time that the team has participated in the final stage of the World Cup, second only to Brazil, which has participated in the World Cup 21 times. Meanwhile, Germany has qualified for the World Cup and The European Championship 26 times in a row, with the last absence going back to Euro 1968.
This summer, after Germany's return at the European Cup, Frick succeeded Loew as the team's new manager. By the end of the match, Frick had led the team to five consecutive wins since taking office, scoring 18 goals and conceding only one, a win in German history that only Loew had done before. A month later, Germany will face Chidenstein at the World Cup, and if the team can continue to win, Frick's opening streak will surpass that of his predecessor.
In this big win over North Macedonia, the 22-year-old Havertz came out on top, the 25-year-old Werner won two dollars and the 18-year-old Mushala scored his debut goal for the national team. There's also Mueller, who contributed two assists in this game, another time since September 2017 that he has contributed two assists in a single game for the national team. They are the present and the future of the German team. Loew said on his departure: "I believe that some players still have the potential to develop, we have a lot of young players, and by the time of the 2024 European Championship, they will reach the top level." You can look forward to it. "Before the next European Championship, germany first needs to prove that it is still strong in next year's World Cup, and it can be seen from the team's performance in the World Preliminary Tournament that this German team can find the shadow of its predecessors." We have won all five games this season and we have to praise the attitude of the players. By November 2022, we all have time to improve ourselves and look forward to challenging this task. After advancing to the World Cup early, Frick could not hide his joy, after all, this was the first major thing he completed after taking office and leading the team to play one of the few games.
Frick also specifically talked about Werner, who scored two goals in this game, "Werner's second goal was the best of the game today, and when we scored the first goal, it also untied the knot for him. "Werner became the player who scored the most goals under Frick so far, he has scored five goals in five games, and the German media "Bild" gave him the highest score of the game after the game." Working with Frick is enjoyable and helpful to every player when the coach likes and trusts you. He gave me 100% trust and I hope to reward him on the pitch. Werner also felt it after the game, which was the second time in a year that he had won two yuan in the national team.
At the age of 18 and 227 days, Musharra became the second youngest goalscorer in German history, and since last season, he has started to perform well at Bayern and the national team. He scored his first goal for the national team in this match and contributed to the team's early promotion to the World Cup. Musharra wrote on her personal social platform after the match: "Happy for my first goal in the national team, equally happy for us to enter the 2022 World Cup. ”
Since the 56-year-old Frick took over the coaching whip of the German team from Loew this summer, the previous 15 years of the Loew era came to an end, and a new era has arrived. As the winner of the 2014 World Cup, Germany fell into a slump in the subsequent 2018 World Cup and Euro 2020, and the 2022 Qatar World Cup is the team's opportunity to prove itself in the big game again, and it is also the first "big test" after the arrival of the new era. The strong promotion in the World Preliminary Round makes people look forward to the performance of the German team in the World Cup in a year, can this once huge "chariot" continue the strong tradition of the predecessors?
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Fan
Editor/Zhou Xueshuai