It's a question that offers endless material for discussion: what would a team look like in the top eleven players in German football history? In the German Football Museum a selection will soon be on display, in which the opinions of fans and experts merged.
Until September 30, users could submit their suggestions on the website of the German Football Museum, from which a shortlist of 23 players and three coaches was determined. From this an expert jury now forms the "first elf". The only criterion in the preparation of this list is the number of entries by all members of the jury.
This is what the SPON-elf looks like
Also, we have thought about the best Elf of the past decades and argued: how comparable are the achievements of the World Champions of 1954 with those of 2014, how to circumvent the transfiguration of those players, of which only the big World Cup games and not the has seen many mediocre in minor friendship land games? Does the further development of goalkeeping by Manuel Neuer not have a higher priority than the ten-year world class of Sepp Maier? And what about Oliver Kahn?
Click through to see our subjective selection of the best Elf of German football!
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