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DFB development plan of 2000 - Germany’s path to success in Brazil Germany’s 2014 World Cup success has not come overnight. The national team has been building towards this excellence since 2000, when it could not advance from the group stage in the European tournament. The result of the fall out was a development plan.  A plan, which has had been identifying and training athletic youngsters in 366 districts. The system produced the wave of players in their mid-20’s who excelled in Brazil. The German system is important because there is a direct line from the development plan of the German federation, DFB, and some of the celebrity coaches from Germany plying their trade elsewhere.   Germany rarely needs a renewal not with three world cup won, but that does not mean success will come on a platter, they had to work hard for it. Germany’s surges ahead taking its core from the DFB program. The wealthy national league, the Bundesliga, has kept most national players at home, chall

Brazil gets Dutch help ahead of Rio Games Doha:  Brazilian hockey teams are in a race to be worthy participants for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio 2016 Games may come to represent a milestone in the history of Brazilian hockey. With an active national hockey team since 1998, the country is working hard in order to make their debut on the Olympic pitch in Rio de Janeiro. The south American country cannot automatically qualify as hosts for the Rio de Janeiro Games but have to make it through the qualifying process set by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). FIH established goals for Brazil’s national teams, which, if achieved, will be rewarded with an Olympic place. Regarding the men’s competition, the national team coached by Claudio Rocha must be among the top 30 in the ranking to qualify. Currently, it is number 33. In the women’s section, the Brazilians must stay in the top number 40 in the international ranking. The team coached by Eduardo Martin

November 13 - The operations director for the 2014 World Cup insists the country will be ready on time despite constant concerns expressed by both Sepp Blatter and his FIFA number two, Jerome Valcke. Ricardo Trade (pictured) attempted to make light of Brazil's problems when he spoke at the Aspire4Sport  conference here which has featured Brazil's failings almost as much as Qatar's 2022 aspirations over the first couple of days. Blatter said earlier this year that Brazil were further behind in preparations than South Africa had been at the same stage ahead of the 2010 tournament. Valcke, meanwhile, has made several trouble-shooting trips to Brazil of late, warning the government only last week that the country was running out of time. But Trade, whose boss is Brazil's scandal-tarnished organising chief Ricardo Teixeira, gave the impression everything was running smoothy. "I am very confident about the discussions we are having with Mr Blatter and Mr Valcke and we a