It's River vs Boca.

Anderlecht standard also this weekend, belgian clasico

I frequently hear people calling the German national team as 'Die Mannschaft".

E.g.: Die Mannschaft wins the world cup.

Can't wait to watch. Cut out the disgraceful diving and antics and it is the most entertaining match around.

yeah like i said, i also read that very often recently, especially in american but also in english articles. just saying it sounds strange to a german...

Well when you say Die Mannschaft, who do you think they are referring to? The French? The Spanish?


Norwegian papers say it too when you're talking about the German football team.





I never really thought that Germans just call their team 'The team'. Its what other countries call the German team, not the Germans themselves..

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Oct 24 2014 02:18pm

wow, clearly that was not my point. it's obvious which team they mean if they say "die mannschaft" but it sounds like they think we germans call our national team that, i mean why would they use a german term? and that's all i wanted to clarify...

Then how do you refer to your national team?

Deutschblütig

The team, in english.