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FRANKFURT - At a reception shortly before Christmas, German football federation president Wolfgang Niersbach said his plan for the holidays was to sit back on a sofa, shut off the radio and television and think about the wonderful year behind him. Baron Davis Jersey .After winning a fourth World Cup title, Germany has plenty of reason to celebrate 2014 as an extraordinary year. But the Germans dont want to rest on their laurels and again end up waiting 24 years for a World Cup title.The year behind us was extraordinary but it shouldnt be the only one, Niersbach said. We are not going to lean back. Thats why weve set out a 10-year plan.The ambitious long-term project is aimed at making success more permanent. Few would consider Germany a failure in football, but the title in Brazil was its first championship since the 1996 European Championship.When you are first, you always have something to lose, German national team director Oliver Bierhoff said. Its dangerous to think its always going to continue like that. We went through that in 1990. Ten years later, you wake up and notice that youve slept through something.Germany coach Joachim Loew hopes his team can create somewhat of a dynasty, like Spain did with two consecutive European titles and a World Cup.We want to leave our mark on an entire era, Loew said.Germany hopes to follow its World Cup triumph with the 2016 European Championship title in France. Then there are World Cups in 2018 and 2022 and another European tournament in 2020.We are still hungry, said Hansi Flick, Loews assistant in Brazil and now the federations technical director.Niersbach said we should be thankful and humble for what weve achieved, but promised to embark on the project for the future.The plan culminates with the 2024 European Championship that Germany hopes to be awarded.It would be a wonderful perspective for us and our most ambitious goal to get the 2024 championship and we are confident we are going to get it, Niersbach said. Not many nations are able to host a 24-team competition.Germany plans to use 10 stadiums, all of them already in existence and most used for the 2006 World Cup.Another highlight of the project is an 89 million euro ($109 million) academy to be built on the outskirts of Frankfurt, the federations biggest investment to date. The national training and research facility will be home not only to Loews team but also to all other national selections starting at youth level.Its important to use the momentum of the World Cup title and to lay down structures for future success, Bierhoff said.He and Flick will visit the United States early in 2015 to visit similar academies, and Bierhoff said the academy will also offer its know-how to other nations.Work on the academy is scheduled to start in 2016 and to be completed by the end of 2018. Frankfurt residents, however, have started a move that could end up in a referendum and ultimately scuttle the project despite previous approval and a contract with city authorities. Walter Herrmann Jersey . Messis 75th-minute goal answered some of the criticism the clubs all-time leading scorer had received for his lacklustre performances in the teams recent losses in the league, Champions League and Copa del Rey final. 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Dwyane Wade added 24 points and Chris Bosh had 22 for the Heat, idle since a 90-84 loss Tuesday at Indiana.SASKATOON - An iconic Canadian story about a boy and his hockey uniform is bringing together a junior sports team and a symphony orchestra.A musical adaptation of Roch Carriers The Hockey Sweater is to be presented live at SaskTel Centre by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra next March.The Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League decided they wanted the concerts first performance on ice done in their home arena.Kids will be allowed to skate with the team after the show, which is to include illustrations from the book projected onto the scoreboard.Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison will narrate the tale, and there will also be autograph sessions and interactive games.The Hockey Sweater is based on a real experience Carrier had growing up in Quebec and is considdered to exemplify Canadas passion for the game. Stitched Hornets Jerseys. It tells the story of a boy who is ridiculed when he is made to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by his mother after she mistakenly orders the wrong one to replace his worn-out Montreal Canadiens Maurice Richard jersey.Its also considered to be an allegory of the relationship and tensions that existed between francophones and anglophones in the 1940s.The Saskatoon event is bringing many different things together, suggested Blades president Steve Hogle.Hockeys a great platform. It is a really common bond among Canadians, he said on the Blades website Tuesday. We can use that and leverage that to get into things like music and literature and celebrate ... aspects of hockey as well. ' ' '