Time to reflect, a time to contemplate the year passed: Birthdays give us a chance to reconnoitre the past, our achievements and our accomplishments.
Joachim Löw has many reasons to lean back with some satisfaction, as he celebrates his 50th birthday in Freiburg today. The coach of the German national team celebrates the day with his wife Daniela and a few close friends. But instead of dwelling in the past, the coach is focused on this upcoming summer, the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Löw succeeded Jürgen Klinsmann as coach of the German team on August 1, 2006, following the World Cup in Germany. Highlights of his tenure include reaching the championship game at the EURO 2008 and the successful qualifying run for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Löw celebrates 50th birthday
Of all ten coaches in the history of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund so far, Löw statistically owns the best winning percentage with an overall record of 31 wins, six loses and eight ties. With Chelsea’s Michael Ballack captaining the squad, Germany currently is ranked sixth in the world, and certainly has a shot at winning the upcoming World Cup.
50 years passed, five decades in the life of one of the premier coaches in the game today. “I don’t see any special importance in my 50th birthday, it is just a regular work-day, as we’re in the middle of the football season”, says Löw. Even more so, as 2010 is a World Cup year. “Winning a fourth world championship, would be a tremendous accomplishment.” Löw would be the fourth coach bringing the prestigious trophy back to Germany, following Sepp Herberger in 1954, Helmut Schön in 1974, and Franz Beckenbauer in 1990. “History is written during the major tournaments”, says Joachim Löw, “and nowhere more memorable than during the World Cup.”
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Time to reflect, a time to contemplate the year passed: Birthdays give us a chance to reconnoitre the past, our achievements and our accomplishments.
Joachim Löw has many reasons to lean back with some satisfaction, as he celebrates his 50th birthday in Freiburg today. The coach of the German national team celebrates the day with his wife Daniela and a few close friends. But instead of dwelling in the past, the coach is focused on this upcoming summer, the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Löw succeeded Jürgen Klinsmann as coach of the German team on August 1, 2006, following the World Cup in Germany. Highlights of his tenure include reaching the championship game at the EURO 2008 and the successful qualifying run for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Löw celebrates 50th birthday
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Of all ten coaches in the history of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund so far, Löw statistically owns the best winning percentage with an overall record of 31 wins, six loses and eight ties. With Chelsea’s Michael Ballack captaining the squad, Germany currently is ranked sixth in the world, and certainly has a shot at winning the upcoming World Cup.
50 years passed, five decades in the life of one of the premier coaches in the game today. “I don’t see any special importance in my 50th birthday, it is just a regular work-day, as we’re in the middle of the football season”, says Löw. Even more so, as 2010 is a World Cup year. “Winning a fourth world championship, would be a tremendous accomplishment.” Löw would be the fourth coach bringing the prestigious trophy back to Germany, following Sepp Herberger in 1954, Helmut Schön in 1974, and Franz Beckenbauer in 1990. “History is written during the major tournaments”, says Joachim Löw, “and nowhere more memorable than during the World Cup.”
