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- Sami Khedira played a pivotal role in Germany's 2014 World Cup win in Brazil. Khedira played 77 games for Germany scoring seven goals and helped them win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Jul 9, 2014 · Khedira was captain of the German team that won the 2009 Under-21 Championship, famously along with Hummels, Özil, Manuel Neuer and the rest. Kroos, then a teenager starting to impress on loan at...
He has taken part at three FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships with Germany, and was part of their squads which reached the semi-finals at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2012 and 2016 UEFA European Football Championships; he also won the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Jul 9, 2014 · Astonishing, humiliating and devastating - BBC pundits on Germany's destruction of Brazil at the World Cup.
- Humble beginnings. The son of a German mother and Tunisian father, Khedira grew up in Fellbach-Oeffingen, a small town just north of Stuttgart in south-western Germany, with his two brothers, one of whom, Rani, is also a professional and currently plays for Augsburg.
- Stuttgart breakthrough. Before joining the Stuttgart youth ranks in 1995, he took his first tentative steps in the game at local club TV Oeffingen. He was promoted to Stuttgart's first team by Armin Veh early in the 2006/07 season and did not have to wait long for his debut, which came on 1 October 2006 in a 2-2 draw in the capital.
- Playing style. His 1.89m (6"2') frame lends Khedira both a height advantage to survey the action from the centre of the field, and the physical robustness for the tough-tackling approach which has made Khedira such a feared midfield campaigner.
- Germany debut. Löw is better placed than many to draw such comparisons, though it was not he who handed Khedira his international debut - at least not at U21 level.
- Manuel Neuer (players ordered by squad number at Brazil 2014) The finest goalkeeper on the planet not only lifted the World Cup in Rio, but he was also awarded the Golden Glove as the tournament's best custodian, making 25 saves and keeping four clean sheets at the finals.
- Kevin Großkreutz. An often controversial figure during the end of his Borussia Dortmund days, Großkreutz went into the 2014 finals as a double Bundesliga winner and UEFA Champions League finalist.
- Matthias Ginter. Another former Dortmund man, Ginter was a Freiburg player when he was called into Joachim Löw's finals squad. At 20, the centre-back was the youngest player in Germany's set-up but didn't make an appearance at the tournament.
- Benedikt Höwedes. A centre-back by trade, Schalke youth product Höwedes was somewhat surprisingly used as a left-back in Brazil, but went down in history as one of 10 Germany players to win the World Cup having played every single minute of the tournament.
Sami Khedira Then: The former VfB Stuttgart midfielder scored Germany's fifth against Brazil in a rampant opening half hour, before making way for Julian Draxler in the second half.
Jul 1, 2014 · The introduction of forward Andre Schurrle at the break, and midfielder Sami Khedira later on, made a significant difference and Germany were able to establish an element of control.
