BERLIN - Germany coach Joachim Loew has agreed a new contract that will take him through until 2016, the German football federation (DFB) announced Friday. Loew’s existing deal runs until 2014 World Cup but both the manager and DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach had made it clear they wanted the arrangement to continue. “Since the 2006 World Cup, the national team has finished in the top four at each World Cup and Euro and they brilliantly qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil,” Niersbach said. “All credit must go to Joachim Loew and his team and the DFB wanted to show our confidence in them.” Loew praised the DFB saying that they provided the ideal platform for footballing success. “We are not yet at the end of our journey and still have some big objectives ahead of us,” he said.–AFP