Galaxy of Stars as Germany Players and WAGs Dazzle and Re-unite at the Premiere for 'Die Mannschaft'
Germany World Cup winners smartly dressed at the Premiere of 'Die Mannschaft' Germany's World Cup winners and their wa...
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Germany World Cup winners smartly dressed at the Premiere of 'Die Mannschaft' |
Germany's World Cup winners and their wags were given
all-star treatment for the premiere of their celebratory film on Monday.
Players, coaching staff, football emissaries and invited guests gathered
at glitzy Potsdamer Platz in Berlin to see Die Mannschaft (The Team),
a film that reveals some of the more intimate details from the side's
tournament success.
One such detail is seeing Germany's top scorer at the tournament, Thomas
Muller, dressed in a dirndl - a traditional women's dress - after losing a bet
with the team's physio.
The players arrived all wearing dark suits, shirts and ties - perhaps an attempt to help the golden trophy that they proudly carried shine even more.
Before the film started, FIFA president Sepp Blatter paid tribute to
Brazil for hosting 'the best World Cup in years, despite all the negative
things that were said before it.'
FIFA President Sepp Blatter honoured the event |
The film itself revealed small behind-the-scene details that helped
contribute to Germany's fourth World Cup win - its first as a reunified
country.
There were pre-match team-talks from coach Joachim Low and captain
Philipp Lahm but also moments of light relief.
As well as Muller's lost bet, there was midfielder Christoph Kramer
singing Ronan Keating's song When You Say Nothing At All at an initiation
ceremony and Per Mertesacker and Shkodran Mustafi 'dad dancing' after their
final victory.
As Mertesacker says, the film 'showed the team was not just alive on the
pitch, but off it as well.'
Germans basked in World Cup glory before the Premiere, with President
Joachim Gauck, joined by Chancellor Angela Merkel, awarding the players the
Silver Laurel Leaf, the country's highest sports award for what was Germany's
fourth World Cup crown.
'All of us in Germany felt as if we were world champions,' Gauck told
the players before they received their awards.
'We can be happy that no one is envying our title and the world is happy
with us.'
'Many of us are not here for the first time,' Lahm said in his address
at Bellevue Palace. 'But it is something special to have brought the trophy
with us this time.'
See more stunning pictures of the Germany players and their wags below:
Sami Khedira and wife Lena Gerke |
Christoph Kramer poses with girlfriend Celina |
Winning goalscorer Mario Gotze with President Joachim Gauck (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel |
Mario Gotze with his heartthrob Ann-Kathrin Broemmel |
Arsenal transfer target Mats Hummels and his girlfriend Cathy Fischer |
Miroslav Klose and his wife Slywia |
Oliver Bierhoff grabs Klara for a pose |
Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski, Low and Gotze at the premiere in Berlin |
Borrussia Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller with his girlfriend Lisa Rossenbach |
Thomas Muller with his wife Lisa |