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May 31st, 2007

Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (4/5): Christoph Preuß

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
Christoph Preuß plays for Eintracht Frankfurt and has scored only one goal this season. It happened during a home match against Bayern Munich, it was the 78th minute, it was the winner and most importantly it was beautiful.



May 31st, 2007

The Dietmar Hamann Bridge Phenomenon

By: Jan | Comments 8 Comments

Back in 2005 the London Development Agency (LDA) and Transport for London ran a competition to name a footbridge that would lead from Wembley’s town centre to the new Wembley Stadium. In the first round people were asked to send in their suggestions from which a panel shortlisted five names people could vote for. Normally […]

May 29th, 2007

Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (3/5): Jan Schlaudraff

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
Jan Schlaudraff has been one of the shooting stars of the last season, sort of. Judging by his performance during the first half of the season this assertion definitely holds true. He played some good football for Alemannia Aachen, scored some beautiful […]

May 29th, 2007

DFB-Pokal: Nürnberg wins Cup, Stuttgart loses Temper and Double

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

It seems that the public viewing areas of last years World Cup had a lasting impact on German football consumption habits. When the time for the all decisive and important matches of this season came the concept was swiftly revived and 60000 Schalke 04 supporters went to their home ground to watch the Revierderby against […]

May 28th, 2007

Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (2/5): Thomas Hitzlsperger

By: Jan | Comments 6 Comments

Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
Next up in my little countdown is a goal by Thomas Hitzlsperger. His nickname is “The Hammer” which he acquired during his time with Aston Villa in the English Premier League. It’s trivia knowledge that no German TV reporter fails to mention […]



May 25th, 2007

Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (1/5): Rafael van der Vaart

By: Jan | Comments 4 Comments

Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
This is my personal selection of the five best goals of this years Bundesliga season. This selection is completely biased towards goals that are still available online. My apologies to those players whose efforts were taken down by some Bundesliga TV rights […]

May 24th, 2007

Summer Flu

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

I was having a summer flu which kept me at home for the week. During that time I wasn’t really inclined to do any blogging. So sorry for the lack of updates. But I hope to catch up with my coverage during the next couple of days.

Category Category: Miscellaneous
May 19th, 2007

Bundesliga Season Finale: Full-Time

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

Schalke 04 had to pay tribute to the high tempo of their game in the first half. They tried everything but couldn’t add any more goals to the score. Bielefeld even scored in overtime to make it 2:1. Meanwhile Stuttgart took matters into their own hands and scored the second goal against Cottbus which secured […]

May 19th, 2007

Bundesliga Season Finale: Half-Time

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

Things are still in the balance although VfB Stuttgart still has an advantage. Schalke plays a fantastic match against Bielefeld and leads 2:0. Cottbus even took the lead against Stuttgart in the 19th minute but Thomas Hitzelsperger equalised with a beautiful volley from 17 meters eight minutes later. As it stands now Schalke and Stuttgart […]

May 18th, 2007

The Big Bundesliga Season Finale Preview

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

Well, this is actually just a normal Bundesliga Season Finale Preview without the big. I just put that word in the title in the hope to attract some extra readers. The big finale has probably already been last weekend. VfB Stuttgart took over the top spot, Alemannia Aachen and Mainz 05 were relegated and Leverkusen […]






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