Oliver Kahn for the competition; despite their acrimonious pre-tournament battle for Germany's starting role, Kahn openly accepted Klinsmann's decision. Kahn and Lehmann embraced and shook hands as the former offered words of encouragement before the quarter-final penalty shoot-out against Argentina. In the postgame conference, Kahn publicly praised Lehmann for his two decisive penalty saves. After Germany was eliminated in the semi-finals by Italy, Kahn was given the start for the third place play-off held on 8 July 2006, which Germany won 3–1 against Portugal. In what was his last international appearance for Germany, he also received the captaincy of the team in
Forever Country was sort of a quintessential song in the country genre. But Kahn kept rebuffing the suggestion since his choices of music would not blend together with the song. Even after presenting a demo of a second medley he made that everyone loved, they would still request him to incorporate "I Will Always Love You". Kahn did not object to this idea but felt wary as to how a ballad would fit into a mash-up full of movement without making the entire thing a ballad. McAnally was also having a hard time figuring out how the song could blend with any