It happened today, 6 September 2006: San Marino 0-13 Germany
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On 6 September 2006, the record for goals scored in a single game in all official national matches was broken. It was a valid race for the 2008 European qualifications in Austria and Switzerland and the Germany faced the San Marino in Serravalle. That match was played only four months after the World in Germany in 2006 which saw the triumph ofItaly by Marcello Lippi. The German team had been eliminated by the Azzurri in the semifinal ended in extra time on a score of 2-0 thanks to goals from Big and of Del Piero. After that defeat, coach Jürgen Klinsmann he will resign and the German bench will be entrusted to Gioacchino Bass who in that 2008 European Championship will win the silver medal. However, the most important award the German coach will get in 2014 when he takes the Germany a win the World in Brazil.
San Marino-Germany 0-13, a record goal by the Germans
Before the match of 6 September 2006 between San Marino And Germanythe record for most goals scored in official competition belonged to Spain when he faced the Malta in qualifying for the 1984 European Championship in Seville, on December 21, 1983. The Spaniards closed that match on a score of 12-1, setting the record that lasted for more than twenty years. Germany And San Marino was part of group D of qualifying. The Germans moved on to the second round, placing themselves second, under the Czech Republicwhile the Serravalle team finished last in the group standings with 57 goals conceded in just 12 games.
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We take the field. Lukas immediately opens the scoring Podolski at the eleventh minute, carrying on the Germany. The doubling takes place only at minute 28, with Bastian’s goal Schweinsteiger. From that moment on begins the goleada of Germany. The first half ends on a score of 0-6 with the hosts of the San Marino which cannot contain the exuberance of the Germans. The Turkish referee Selçuk whistles the start of the second half, and the Germany, still not satisfied with goals, it spreads again. In this match, the historic record of goals scored in a match by the Germans was also touched, almost equaling that 16-0 against Russia during Olympic Games of 1912. The score of the match ends on the result of 0-13, one more goal than the Spanish record. In goal for the Germany almost all have gone, 4 goals of Podolski2 of Schweinsteigerby Miroslav Klose and Tommaso Hitzlspergerand a goal each for Michael DanceManuel Federico and Bernd Schneider.