Germany’s 2014 World Cup Winning Starting XI: Where Are They Now? 

Bastian Schweinsteiger is still working as an expert for all games shown on ARD. He's not just there for the World Cup games.

I would like to mention that Klose is the only player ever who played 4 consecutive World Cups and always made it at least to 3rd place. 2002: 2nd, 2006: 3rd, 2010: 3rd 2014: WC Winner. Thats a crazy record.😲 and btw Özil wasn't the only Premier League player in 2014. André Schürrle played for Chelsea and Lukas Podolski for Arsenal and the Arsenal legend himself: Per Mertesacker, okay they weren't first squad, but Schürrle was crucial for this team, 2 goals vs Brazil and assisted Mario Götzes decisive goal in the finals. Podolski was the locker room clown and Per a vocal leader veteran, they were important guys for team chemistry, anyway thumbs up for the video.

Probably the most decorated European team ever

Next up is the 7-1 brazil squad please

2014 was a year of amazing national teams. It was also the year where we saw these great teams disband due to aging players. Netherlands, Germany and Spain had legendary players and teams that pretty much all disbanded after 2014. 2014 and 2010 were the best World Cups ever

Phillip Lahm. Pure class on & off the pitch club and national teams. ❤️

2014 is almost 10 years ago. Shit that feels so unreal

Germany in 2014 was a perfectly tuned machine, rare example of good technical of the players paired with very efficient teamwork chemistry. They played so neatly, conceding so few goals due to effective and confident defensive. Damn i miss them

2014 Germany squad was the most scariest sqad ever🔥

It was funny that Klose played against R9 and then broke his record while trashing Brazil 7-1 and then went on to win the tournament

Honestly it was surprising how fast many of the players “fell” off, maybe it’s because players like Messi and Ronaldo were so good after 30 for so long, but I expect most of these guys to play well into their 30s and not retire before 35.

In 2014 I thought Germany would be unbeatable for the 10 next years. I was horribley wrong 😂

The team that didn't give a damn about star player, be it Messi or Ronaldo

I don’t know about Barca winning the World Cup in 2010 but Bayern really won the World Cup in 2014😂

Please do this on Bayern’s sextuple winning team in 2020

The best team for their time. I remember standing in front of the TV in awe in their brazil match

I feel like Toni Kroos has had the best career since the 2014 World cup. He moved to Real Madrid and for a very long time was absolutely indispensable for them.

German guy here. Thanks for the great video, brought back some great memories. 😊👍 We take a lot of strength from people all over world coming to Germany and sending their kids to play football. Look how "mixed" our team was! I'm especially proud of that.

As an argentinian, it's been 8 years and i still can't see that match again

Miss this team 😥😥😥they were Monster in their time..

2014 team was amazing especially the midfield 😮❤❤

the 14’ Germany squad would’ve smoked the 22’ Argentina Side 😔

4:13 My guy is Underrated 😢

One up for Bayern Munich winning the WC

Do 2006 Italy starting 11 next

He is not a veteran, he is a legend

Great team, and what a great Bayern team. For a very long time Bayern was the backbone of Germany NT. I don't know what happened in the last years and why they changed the strategy, but I find both teams a lot weaker than those 2014 and it seems that Bayern lost it's identity as well.

4:30 oh hahaha that was the legendary interview wasn't it?

where are they now? they´ve been missing ...

Next up Spain 2010 winning squad

Pls do the croatia 2018 squad that lead then to their first final ever

Goddamn I miss those times as a German…

Germany 2014 was the best Team by far!

kroos has just been chilling lmao

I hate how much hate our teams after that one got. So much criticism unreasonable expectations and unfair criticism. Yes this team was a great team, but what gave us the edge over the competition was not just the players skill level, it was the "munich core". In that world cup, we had the complete engine of the team running on munich fuel. Neuer, Boateng, Lahm is 3 of 5 from the defensive lineup. They have played tons of games together. Hummels and Boateng also had a long track record of playing in the national team together. Then we have Schweinsteiger (an exceptional leading player) and toni kroos playing in the center. Both bayern. Both with a heck ton of experience together, and a heck ton of experience with the defenders right behind them. And in the offense we have muller in the center, also a ton of experience with the midfield players right behind him. And Klose who also played 4 years in munich with a lot of those exact players from munich. This was the key to success. You have a core of about 7 players who have played tons of games together for years. All of those players also happen to be exceptionally good players. And then you just add the best wingers you got access to and fill 2 more slots. Not to talk down on the coaches influence, but 100% this would have not happened without the better part of the team already being a working team with a ton of experience. That makes a huge difference. Other nations also have brilliant players, but usually in national teams they dont perform at their very best, because you get 7 star players from 7 different clubs with little game experience together. We had them from 1 team. E.g. Schweinsteiger, who was a great player, will obviously be even better in a world cup team if 3 people behind him, the one right next to him, and the one in front of him are all players that he as captain has played A LOT of games with from "everyday bundesliga" up to finale of the championsleague. Add to that that a lot of the rest played in Dortmund and in other bundesliga teams like goetze, schuerle, kramer etc. Its obviously not the same as playing in the same team, but it does mean that the other players have played against them a lot, have seen them a lot and have analyzed them a lot in game preperations for the bundesliga. Also giving a better feel for how these players act on the pitch. Its not like there is a good german player who always played in a league outside the country that noone of the rest of the team has ever been on the pitch with. We have to understand that this was the stars lining up for germany and that its gonna be hard to ever get that solid of a team again, even if we can match the individual class of players. *Not a bayern munich fan btw*

Please do mancity 2011-2012 sqaud

Philppe lahm was called The magic dwarf

props for pronouncing the german names that well 👍🏼

That gotze goal still hurts

The current state of the team is a friendly reminder that Lahm is a Top 10 player of all times and maybe the most versatile player ever that played multiple positions in a world class manner

Ah 2014 Germany - Brazilian favorite.

Spain next plz

Hello goal 90 today is my birthday and I need soccer shoes to play the finals of trails

aah the time when Germany made me believe that I was watching someone play THE GAME on easy mode

I followed 2010 World Cup waiting for them to win until the final but didn't. Disappointed, tho not for long. 4 years later they finally did it. This team was the best German team in recent years. Too bad most of them are retired now.

Kroos knew way before that germany were fked, so he retired before the wc2022

One is always on Twitter putting Manchester United banner up with his pictures in the T-shirt when there is a match about.

Next up France 2018 World Cup winning squad

What about assist maker of goal? Nicholas Schrule

5:36 wrong mertesacker played vor Arsenal too

What is about lukas podolski, andre schürle and julian draxler?

u didn't mention Julian Draxler?

I always thought joshua kimchi was there for the 2010 wc for some reason idk why

Most final- AND semifinal appearances btw

This was the best team ever

They are busy getting eliminated in the group stage.

Ozel ❤

Do 1994 brazil

it was pretty much a team of midfielders

Don't forget Andre shurrle

At this point, the 2014 finals was just Bayern Munich vs Argentina 🤣🤣

2:00 wrong he is a product of BvB where he was before he moved to bayern and then back to bvb

Germany winning the world cup cursed the team going forward

sad the current shape of the german team since 2018

Kroos is still important in Madrid.

best worldcup

Neuer is the last player of that world cup 2014 winning team

Argentina's 2022 team

Argentina please

You forgot khedira

The Toni Kroos I was died forever. The Bastian Schweinsteiger I was died forever.

Heute vor 9 Jahren😢

no word of Boateng being convicted for beating his girlfriend and mother of his two daughters, resulting in a fine over a million? that's quite an omission.

No schürrle😮

Probably happy

What abkut. Andre Schurrle?

and now boateng is a criminal lol

We are so excited for Germany euro 2024

Who where Per Mertesacker played then?

when you have zero knowledge about football, and there it is Tony Crouise, or Tony Croos, or Tony Kros

Bayern won the World Cup in 2014

You should do the Argentina 2022 World Cup winning squad

Super Bayern!

Things really changed after 2014. 8 years later, they became a joke team at the World Cup

We need Klose or Klopp as new Manager :(

Podolski!!!! :)

OZIL 😊❤

Bro forgot Schürle

Mesut Ozil ❤️

The time you ignore me

its a real shame what happend to Ozil

Bayern Munich won the 2014 World Cup.

Big respectg for pronounces these German names so well!

it is sad that all 199x players except Kroos they downgraded rapidly after 2014. Some of them couldn’t appear any more in German team like Erik Durm

I thought they played a 4-5-1?

Christoph Kramer, 23, the youngest player in the team Few minutes later Mario Götze, the then 22 year old

There has been only two club that has won the FIFA world cup,,, YKWIM,,, that is FCBs,,, in 2010 FCB won it for spain,,, and 2014 FCB won it for germany,,,

They were not diverse enought for today standards xd

Where are they now? Well in a bathtub full of money ..Duuuuh

Too bad argentina was robbed a penalty, things could have been very different