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DFB-Pokal: Berlin won’t be going to Berlin next Year
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Since 1985 the final of the DFB-Pokal (German FA Cup) is played in the Olympiastadion in Berlin. A tradition that has spawned the popular fan chant “Berlin! Berlin! We’re going to Berlin!”, which was then reused to shout the German national team to the final of last year’s World Cup. Well, at least close to […]
Category: If you always wondered what Franz Beckenbauer was doing on the 15th of September 1982 from 11.45am to 7.40pm…
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…then let me help you out and fill you in with the details.
11.45am Beckenbauer uses the border crossing at Heinrich-Heine street and declares his intentions to leave the same day again.
2.10pm Beckenbauer arrives at his hotel. A bit later he goes to a French restaurant. He then has a chat with Günther Netzer and gives […]
Matchday 11: Five Minutes and 27 Seconds of Highlights from this Season’s most boring Match
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Here’s a highlight video of Friday’s match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Hannover 96. I can’t pin down, whether this comes from a Japanese or Chinese broadcast. Japanese would make sense, since Inamoto and Takahara are playing for Frankfurt. I can’t tell you either whether the commentators are all singing and dancing, or whether they are […]
Matchday 11: Twelve
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Twelve goals are better than eleven. Otherwise this matchday would have equaled the Bundesliga’s negative record. The 26th matchday of the 1989/1990 season and the 20th matchday of the 1998/1999 season will thus continue to share the dubious honour of being the lowest scoring matchdays in Bundesliga history.
Despite this letdown, the Bundesliga is still the […]
Weekly Dose 28.10.07
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One Too Many Awards: Werder Bremen’s Diego has been voted Bundesliga player of the year, again. I thought he had already been voted last season’s MVP, but you can never have enough awards. (Soccer Source)
One Too Many Awards 2: Diego has also been nominated for this years Ballon d’Or. Other Bundesliga nominees are Miroslav Klose, […]
Tags: Diego, Thomas Schaaf, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Miroslav Klose, Franck Ribery, Luca Toni, 1. Bundesliga, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, Tag IndexMatchday 11: Eleven
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Seven matches played so far and no more than 11 goals were scored. That’s an awful 1,6 goals per match average and the 0-0 draws played out between Hannover and Frankfurt or Karlsruhe and Rostock rank among the worst games of the season.
One-nil Hamburg plays tomorrow, and they probably won’t help make the stats look […]
Coming Soon: Third Bundesliga and Relegation Play-Offs
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The members of the German FA have now voted for the introduction of a unified third Bundesliga with 20 teams, to replace the current third division system with a northern and southern conference with 18 teams each. Relegation play-offs will also be re-introduced - the last play-offs were played in 1991. Both changes will make […]
Video: Jogi Löw is handed a Cowbell
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Here is a video of Jogi Löw, after Germany just suffered a humiliating defeat against the Czech Republic in their Euro 2008 qualifier two weeks ago. The guy to his left is the coach of second division side Mainz 05, who just analysed for him, everything that his team did wrong and now it’s Urs […]
A Name to Remember: Toni Kroos
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Toni Kroos is seventeen years old, but only his acne gives away, that he’s still a teenager. His football skills are already on a level, that earn him some playing time in Bayern Munich’s senior squad. He supposedly is Germany’s most promising and talented football wunderkind. An assessment that has been backed by FIFA’s technical […]
VfB Stuttgart: Get Well Soon
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Things truly look terminally f*#!ed up for Stuttgart at the moment. After gatecrashing the title race last season, they are now just one point clear of a relegation spot, deep down on the 14th place in the table. Their Champions League adventure - actually their whole European adventure - will end this winter, as they […]
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