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Column: German domination of football? Not quite

In football, is Germany a nation of chokers?The big surprise about the Champions League final on Saturday isn't the teams — Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, both superb. It's that it took so long for such an all-German contest to materialize.With the largest economy and population in Europe, modern stadiums heaving with fans, financial backing from industrial giants, an impressively run league with a fat balance sheet and mostly profitable clubs, and a web of academies hot-housing young players, German teams should be all-conquering, regularly scooping up trophies in Europe's top tournaments.But German football's motto, especially in the decade since Bayern was the last German champion of Europe in 2001, could be "close, but no cigar."A poster-boy for German underachievement is Philipp Lahm, captain both of Bayern and the national team. His trophy haul from two World Cups and three European Championships with Germany, plus two Champions League finals (2010 and 2012) with Bayern, is...

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