It appears that after Michael Ballack has been the last player from East Germany playing for the German national team and who also held the captain’s arm band and for a number of years has been Germany’s best player.Today Toni Kroos is the only one with roots in the former GDR. There used to be a number of players who have their roots in East Germany. Names like Ulf Kirsten, Matthias Sammer, Steffen Freund and even Uwe R