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Snapshot: Ministry of Silly Walks
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Or: Ministry of Awesome Names. This is Hamburg’s Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting who is currently in Russia playing for Germany’s U19 national team. An interesting young striker, who could solve Hamburg’s problems up front, that are persistent ever since Sergej Barbarez left the club. Though, in the worst case scenario Choupo-Moting might just as well completely [...]
Women’s World Cup Final: Germany 2-0 Brazil
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That was a hard fought victory for the women’s national team.
The first fifteen to twenty minutes saw chances and possession shared evenly among the two teams. Germany pulled of a great attack with some quick passing, that sliced through Brazil’s defence and gave Sandra Smisek the chance to send a curling ball into the top [...]
Category: National TeamWeekly Dose 30.09.07
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Miroslav Klose visits a vintage tailor to get himself a tailor-made new suit. Franck Ribery is kind enough to join him and offer some fashion advice. Then two teenagers show up to change their lives forever… (YouTube)
Jogi Löw has his own way of coping with the little nuisances his body produces during a tense football [...]
Matchday 7: Oktoberfest in Munich
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There’s too much football and too little time for me to write about it.
So as I get to sit down to quickly recap the midweek action, matchday 8 is already underway. Schalke beat Berlin 1-0 yesterday, setting up a little series of three consecutive wins and clean sheets. They are still wasting too many chances, [...]
Women’s World Cup Semi-Finals: Germany 3-0 Norway, USA 0-4 Brazil
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Germany reached the final of this year’s Women’s World Cup and again the final scoreline is a bit misleading. The story of this match mirrored in some ways the quarter final against North Korea. The first half probably was more balanced than in the quarter final, but overall Norway had the better of it, but [...]
Category: National Team
Tags: Birgit Prinz, FIFA Womens World Cup, Germany, International, Kerstin Stegemann, Martina Müller, National TeamRelated: Albert Einstein – Rudi Völler
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Rudi is slowly getting there I think. And he also had some interesting ideas about the inter-relationship of space and time in recent years.
There are, at this moment, coaches on press conferences everywhere, who are giving you the same drivel as I do.
The latter statement collides a bit with the popular fan chant that “there [...]
Category: PhotosHertha BSC Berlin: One Touch Football and One Touch Mood Swings
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Berlin’s general manager Dieter Hoeneß is the younger brother of Munich’s general manager Uli Hoeneß. Different to Ulrich, Dieter wasn’t treated to a nickname for some reason (Didi Hoeneß anyone?), and he wasn’t able to turn Berlin into a serious competitor for his older brother’s Bayern Munich either. Instead Berlin was a bit wasteful with [...]
Matchday 6: Diego Delight
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Matchday 7 is merely a day away, as the Bundesliga heads into its first English Week. This term describes a week featuring both weekend and midweek fixtures in the Bundesliga. Something that is common in England and uncommon in Germany. So I gotta hurry with my posts.
I’ll focus all my attention on the match between [...]
Women’s World Cup: On to the Semis
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It was quarter final time in China this weekend. Germany played against North Korea on Saturday and, for a change, I managed to watch the match live. Initially I wasn’t too sure whether I liked the draw. I thought that Sweden or even the USA might have been more predictable at least. And the first [...]
Category: National TeamWeekly Dose 22.09.07
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The German national team is the fourth best football team in the world according to this month’s FIFA World Ranking. (FIFA.com)
The Bundesliga is the fourth best football league in the world according to Yahoo! Sports. (Yahoo! Sports)
The Bundesliga Offside is the fourth best football blog in the world. (www.ijustmadethatup.com)
Coaching legend Ernst Happel who lead Hamburg [...]
Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Ernst Happel, Franz Beckenbauer, Giovanni Trapattoni, Hamburger SV, Helmut Schön, Hennes Weisweiler, International, Jose Mourinho, National Team, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Otto Rehagel, Sepp Herberger
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