when you consider that the national flag is black, red and yellow, it's just as confusing that they always were a white home strip. There's a very good reason for that, though. The German national ...

Another flag came about during the North German Confederation era from 1867 to1871. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is said to have ordered the creation of a new black, white and red tricolour as ...

All of those victories were celebrated in the colour that has become emblematic of German football, despite the fact that white doesn't feature on the country's red, black and yellow flag.

MANY football fans are only just learning why Germany play in white. The country's flag is red, black and yellow, but their famous strip has little resemblance to those national colours.