Oliver Kahn of the tournament that Kahn became the starting goalkeeper. Two years after the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, in which defending champions Germany made an embarrassing exit in the group stage, Kahn received the squad's captaincy, succeeding the striker Oliver Bierhoff. Kahn experienced one of his worst performances in his international career against England in Munich in 2001. Germany were favoured to win as they had beaten England 1–0 in 2000 at the Wembley Stadium. However, they were routed 5–1, including a hat-trick by Michael Owen. Despite the defeat, Germany qualified for the World Cup after winning a playoff against
Florence Kahn (actress) be "nervous, shy, timid, retiring, humourless, moralizing, idealizing, prudish, frequently sad and depressed and anti-social", in fact the very opposite of Beerbohm. In 1931 the Beerbohms returned to Britain so that Kahn could act in Luigi Pirandello's play "La Vita che ti Diedi" ("The Life I Gave You") with a small repertory company in Huddersfield. She returned again in 1935 to play Ase in "Peer Gynt" at the Old Vic, and in February 1936 she played the Duchess of Gloucester in the Oxford Union Dramatic Society's production of "Richard II", directed by John Gielgud. In 1936 Kahn appeared with Gielgud