Also, considering themselves not an independent nation different from Germany, the football team was not designated as a "national team", and was more generally referred to as a "selection" (German: Auswahl) or some similar term.
此外，考虑到自己并非一个主权国家，又为与德国国家足球队区分，该球队没有使用国家队的称谓，而是更普遍的使用“代表队（德語：Auswahl）”或相关类似术语。