Florian Wirtz

Perhaps the only positive Germany can draw from its national soccer team's deepening crisis is that the 2024 European Championship is still a year away.Even if few believe it anymore, Germany coach Hansi Flick insists that is enough time to…

Last Updated: May 19, 2023, 03:15 ISTMourinho's Roma came into the game holding onto a narrow 1-0 lead, thanks to a second-half goal from Rome-born midfielder Edoardo Bove in the first leg. (Image: AS Roma/Twitter)AS Roma created little in…

Florian Wirtz will be sidelined for "several months" according to his club Bayer Leverkusen, after the gifted teenager sustained an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in his team's 1-0 defeat to Cologne on Sunday. Wirtz, 18, was…

Bayer Leverkusen slumped to a 1-0 loss to visitors Cologne in their Rhine derby on Sunday and their Germany international Florian Wirtz suffered a serious knee injury in a double blow to their bid to hold on to a top-four spot this…

Bayer Leverkusen 5-1 FC Augsburg(Bellarabi 9', Diaby 24' 65' 69', Alario 81' – Maier 62')BayArena, Leverkusen  A potentially intriguing battle between two of the Bundesliga's most high-profile talents meant that Bayer Leverkusen's home…

Florian WirtzPhoto: Getty ImagesI start a lot of these with the phrase, “I knew better.” Whether it’s tuning into Monday Night Raw, or believing in the Carolina Hurricanes, or something else, you say that phrase enough and it becomes clear…

Mo Salah, doing magicPhoto: Getty ImagesI suppose being as analytic-minded as I can get that I’m going to be hypocritical here. It doesn’t help (or hurt, depending on your point of view) that I love Mohamed Salah in every sense of the word,…

Arminia Bielefeld 0-4 Bayer Leverkusen(Diaby 18', Schick 24' 57', Demirbay pen 90+2')Schüco-Arena, Bielefeld Gerardo Seoane is a man of few words – and not just because his German colleagues struggle to understand the Swiss dialect his…