21, it has been confirmed – VfB youth team coach Rainer Adrion will be the new Germany U-21 coach. It has been confirmed by the DFB today after a meeting and a lengthy phone conversation with the VfB sporting director Horst Heldt. I first saw the news on the Stuttgarter Zeitung website. They first broke the news before every other news outlet picked up the news!

More details here (no, it is not Stuttgarter Zeitung…it is where I came across the official confirmation) – http://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussball/dfb-team/0901/News/rainer-adrion-wird-wohl-doch-trainer-der-u21-nationalmannschaft.html

It really happened after all in the end. And to imagine the Germany U-21 are paired into which group for the European U-21 Championships this summer…England, Spain and host nation Finland.