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
David Kahn (writer) the "Cryptologia" journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at "Newsday" for several years. He also served as an editor at the "International Herald Tribune" in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the "New York Times Magazine" about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, "The Codebreakers". "The Codebreakers" comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient