In actuality, East Germany did well immediately after the Reunification. They produced a number of good German players after the reunification. Jorg Bohme, Matthaus Sammer,Thomas Doll, Andreas Thom, Thomas Linke, Michael Ballack, Carsten Jancker, Ulf Kirsten, Steffen Freund, Dariusz Wosz, Jens Jeremies, Bernd Schneider, Tim Borowski, Marko Rehmer, Marcel Schmelzer, Robert Enke, René Adler and Toni Kroos were all born in East Germany.
In fact, East Germany won the 1986 European Under-18 Championship beating the talented Yugoslavia in the quarterfinal. At the World Youth Championship in 1987, they narrowly lost to Yugoslavia and finished 3rd. Matthias Sammer was the star of the team. I believe East Germany might have their Golden era from 1996 to 2006.
In 1998, Olaf Marschall and Jens Jeremies went to the World Cup Finals. East Germany could select Carsten Jancker, Thomas Linke, Bernd Schneider, Jens Jeremies, Steffen Freund and Ulf Kiirsten. Thomas Doll, Andreas Thom, Matthias Sammer and Dariusz Wosz were old, but they would probably make it to the WC Finals. Michael Ballack who was 21 years old in 1998 and just made his first Bundesliga in 1998 might be included.
In 2002, Ballack, Jancker, Schneider, Bohme, Jeremies, Linke, and Rehmer went to Japan/Korea. In addition, Kirsten was a regular starter for Leverkusen that season as they finished runner-up at the CL that season. Enke was already capped by Germany and would have been the started for the East German NT. Tim Borowski made his NT debut a month after the WC Finals. He probably would have made the East German team as well. Robert Huth was an emerging player with Chelsea in 2002, but had not made his professional debut.
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