Bastian Schweinsteiger: "We Showed The German character"

Germany is the first team in Euro 2008 to reach semifinal after defeating Portugal 3-2. Without their trainer Joachim Löw for this match, they defeated one of the favorites of Euro 2008, Portugal.

Key play-maker for Germany was Bastian Schweinsteiger. He opened the scoring for Germany in the 24th minute. The other 2 goals for Germany were scored by Klose and Ballack, where Schweinsteiger had a part to play too. His crosses in the box were too much for the Portuguese defense.

After the match Schweinsteiger had these to say:

“I am extremely happy that we won the game. We are now amongst the top four and have knocked one of the best teams out of the tournament. We played for the trainer tonight. I knew that I made a mistake against Croatia, so I wanted to help the team as much as I possibly could."

“In football anything is possible and tonight we showed the German character.”

I really like this term -German Character.

Juventus Eyes Schweinsteiger

Juventus coach, Claudio Ranieri has eyed on German international Schweinsteiger to bring him in Juventus for the coming season. Schweinsteiger now plays football for Bayern Munich where he made his debut in 2002.

However Bayern Munich's new boss Jürgen Klinsmann is reluctant to idea of selling Schweinsteiger and only a lucrative offer would make Klinsman sell his main palyer to Juventus.