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
The Country Girl (1766 play) The Country Girl (1766 play) The Country Girl by David Garrick is a derivative play adapted from "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley. By the time David Garrick adapted "The Country Wife" into "The Country Girl", Wycherley's play was considered too raunchy and scandalous to show in theaters. In "The Country Girl" the plot and characters of "The Country Wife" are reformed to exclude elements of the play which, at the time, were considered immoral or in bad taste. In "The Country Girl", the most significant changes to the plot result from the removal of Horner, who in "The Country