Oliver Kahn maintained his number one spot for the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, but Germany were once again eliminated in the group stage. Oliver Kahn gave up his captaincy to Michael Ballack after the tournament. Germany's new manager Jürgen Klinsmann, who replaced Rudi Völler, adopted the strategy of rotating the number one spot between Kahn and his longtime competitor, Jens Lehmann of Arsenal, to stimulate competition between the two. On 7 April 2006, after two years of dispute for the position Klinsmann announced Lehmann was his first-choice goalkeeper for the 2006 World Cup. Kahn decided to stay on as a backup
Sammy Kahn and "Oliver Beene" (2004), as well as the FOX pilot for "Loveland". Kahn's film work includes starring roles in Beethoven's 5th (2003) and Lenny the Wonder Dog (2005), and a minor role in The Celestine Prophecy (2006). Kahn is from Hollywood,Florida. He attended Jacobson Sinai Academy, a Jewish day school, in Florida, and later was home-schooled by the Laurel Springs School. After his sojourn in Hollywood from 2001 to 2005, he finished high school back home in Florida. Sammy Kahn Sammy Kahn (born March 30, 1994) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1990s in community theater