DFB-Pokal First Round Draw
It’s time to brush up on your knowledge of provincial Germany and long forgotten club name prefixes. The draw for the first round of next season’s DFB-Pokal took place today.
Personal Picks of the Round:
Kickers Offenbach - Eintracht Frankfurt (Fierce Derby, Arch Rivals = Fun and Violence - not that the two should go together and hopefully it’ll be mostly peaceful)
Fortuna Düsseldorf - Hamburger SV (sure to become a 51500 sell out)
Union Berlin - Werder Bremen (Union’s fan renovated Old Forestry stadium deserved no less than the title holder for it’s first official match)
Everybody else
Germania Windeck - Schalke 04
Concordia Hamburg - TuS Koblenz
Sportfreunde Lotte - VfL Bochum
Tennis Borussia Berlin - Karlsruher SC
Dynamo Dresden - 1. FC Nürnberg
SG Sonnenhof Großaspach - VfB Stuttgart
Torgelower SV Greif - Alemannia Aachen
SpVgg Unterhaching - Arminia Bielefeld
SpVgg Weiden - Borussia Dortmund
SpVgg Neckarelz - Bayern Munich
Eintracht Braunschweig - 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Eintracht Trier - Hannover 96
FC Ingolstadt 04 - FC Augsburg
FC Oberneuland Bremen - TSG Hoffenheim
FC Villingen - FC St. Pauli
FC Magdeburg - Energie Cottbus
SV Babelsberg 03 - Bayer Leverkusen
SV Elversberg - SC Freiburg
VfB Lübeck - FSV Mainz 05
VfB Speldorf - Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
Rot-Weiß Erfurt - MSV Duisburg
SC Paderborn - 1860 Munich
VfL Osnabrück - Hansa Rostock
FSV Frankfurt - Borussia Mönchengladbach
Wehen Wiesbaden - VfL Wolfsburg
Wormatia Worms - SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Wacker Burghausen - Rot Weiss Ahlen
Kickers Emden - 1. FC Köln
Preußen Münster - Hertha Berlin
Successful, Athletic, Wealthy Lone Wolf Seeks Educated, Intelligent, Fun Loving Blogger for Long Term Relationship
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In other words: our Wolfsburg Offside is looking for someone to take over and join our lively Bundesliga family here at The Offside. Please send your fake takeover applications to admin@nufc.co.uk and the real ones to daryl[at]theoffside[dot]com. Update: Just as I write this post the Borussia Dortmund Offside goes up for auction as well. If you are [...]
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Özil and Marin Give Bremen Fans a Taste of What’s to Come
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On the left: Werder Bremen’s youngster and designated Diego replacement Mesut Özil.
On the right: Mönchengladbach’s youngster and designated new Werder Bremen signing Marko Marin.
In the middle: a ball, put there for a free kick to Germany’s U21 at the Euros in Sweden.
Three ingredients to make something special happen are in place…
…and [...]
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Photo: The Last Supper
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From left to right: Mesut Özil, Per Mertesacker, Claudio Pizarro, Tim Wiese, Torsten Frings et al celebrate their DFB-Pokal victory over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday (1-0).
Photo: Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images
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Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog
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What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I’ll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal with it. For everyone else it’s season 46 episode 34 of the Bundesliga. We’ve already been served 2970 minutes high on excitement and low on answers - the latter will [...]
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Foreigners: Who They Are and Where They Come From
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Foreigners play for Arsenal London or Inter Milan. Foreigners made England’s footballers so bad, that they couldn’t qualify for Euro 2008. Foreigners now make England’s footballers so good, that they will easily qualify for the World Cup in 2010. The Bundesliga currently employs 497 players, of which 260 players are foreigners (52,3%). That’s the fourth highest [...]
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A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for Football Fans
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1. Get a piece of paper.
It doesn’t have to be white. Just make sure it fits the color-scheme of your football club of choice.
2. Use the paper to take part in a pre-match fan choreograpgy.
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Quote of the Day: Klinsmann’s Confidence
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That was actually the most painful thing in the matter, that you had the feeling you would have been able to finish this job. I would have been able to lead the team to the championship. Jürgen Klinsmann in an interview on German TV. Should Bayern fail to win the title on Saturday, Jupp Heynckes will [...]
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Name the Ringtone
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Bremen’s sporting director Klaus Allofs needs some cheering up at the moment and would like to put that ringtone on his cell. What’s the name of the song?
Also, any need to discuss tonight’s UEFA Cup final?
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Philipp Lahm Takes a Cue From the Animal Kingdom
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Surrounded by Bayern players chained together for reasons only known to Jupp Heynckes, Philipp Lahm does the smart thing and pretends to be dead until the predators lose interest in their prey, then he quickly gets up and escapes. Stuttgart defenders take note.
The whole training session can be seen here.
P.S.: And since there [...]
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Team News
The Return of the King
A new striker before Austria (on the 10th of July)? How about a new striker today?
Well, not so much a new striker. A returning striker. Artur Wichniarek has come back, signing a two-year deal. At Armenia Bielefeld he was known as King Artur and was their main line of offense, ...
Jul 03, 2009 | Read this article...
Where To Now?
It's signed, sealed, and exit-interviewed: Josip Simunic has left Hertha after nearly 10 years.
I honestly thought it wasn't going to happen. A bit of a boy-who-cries wolf scenario. A player can talk about leaving only so much before I stop believing him, and it seems that my entire time ...
Jul 02, 2009 | Read this article...
Oh. my. god.
The shirts posted earlier were apparently the training outfit, used only and solely for that purpose. The true kit had to be a little more exciting than that, dontcherknow!?
Jul 01, 2009 | Read this article...
New kit?!
The new kit is currently being presented at a local store, but so far no visitors have posted their phone-camera shots yet.. The VfL homepage shows some photographs of the training camp, and if those shirts are the ones we'll get, I'm happy:
I'll post again when the show is done ...
Jul 01, 2009 | Read this article...
Quick hits
Just back from my holiday and heading into Independence Day weekend here in the good old USA, but there are finally some signs of life on the transfer front for HSV.
Jul 01, 2009 | Read this article...
Official: I Am A Jinx
Also, Josip Simunic is going to Hoffenheim.
More discussion later.
Jun 30, 2009 | Read this article...
Younger Faster Better Stronger
"Hertha has to become like the city of Berlin: young, passionate, brave, open and direct." So says Michael Preetz, the new Berlin manager. And it's hard not to agree with him- while Berlin has turned into one of the world's coolest cities, Hertha itself has been stuck in the image ...
Jun 29, 2009 | Read this article...
Angela breathes a sigh of relief...
One of my most favorite, aside from Captain Dutch, will be remaining with Bayern for one more year. The Belgian Bull has agreed to stay on after being asked by the new coach.
Munich.
"I will stay at Bayern Munich next season, although nothing is ever certain in football. The coach, ...
Jun 28, 2009 | Read this article...
Next season's coming
And once again the world proves to be a village. In this weekend's drawing for the DFB cup - which like last season marks the beginning of the season, I see a pattern there.. - we've been drawn to play at Lotte. Yeah, plenty of knowledge at wikipedia, huh? Anyways, ...
Jun 28, 2009 | Read this article...
We have a signing!
Swedish midfielder Andreas Johansson is heading our way. Can't say that his name rings a bell. 27 years of age (though looking at his wikipedia image, I'd say 'age undefined'), playes for Halmstads, capped once for Sweden (this January), which is a good sign (I hope). I haven't eben seen ...
Jun 23, 2009 | Read this article...
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