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Weekly Dose 30.04.08
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Germany: Bundesliga, 2007-’08 Season-Zoom Map. That’s what it is. Learn how Germany looks like, how the Bundesliga’s club’s crests and kits look like and how the clubs are distributed over the country. (billsportsmaps.com)
How the Rekordmeister could also be a Sofameister. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
Borussia Dortmund’s new kit for 2008/2009. (westline)
The weekly Honigstein. (Guardian sportblog)
The Bundesbag provides [...]
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10 Things we learned from Matchday 30
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1. Only math stands in Bayern’s way now.
Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between them and Werder Bremen. 24 goals stand between them and [...]
Snapshot: Luca Toni Impersonator
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Franck Ribery put on his best Luca Toni impression on Sunday against Stuttgart and most of it was spot on. He bagged a brace – one of Luca Toni’s latest habits. He emulated Luca’s avete capito (”Do you get it?”) goal celebration – pretending to unscrew his ear. His goals should have been a bit [...]
Uncanny Resemblance: Jogi Löw and Tom Cruise
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Jogi Löw attended the match between Karlsruhe and Bremen disguising as Tom Cruise. What is even more worrying than that, is the current form of most of his designated Euro 2008 players. Per Mertesacker is probably playing his worst ever season. Torsten Frings was injured again. Bernd Schneider will most probably miss the Euros due [...]
A True Bayern Fan
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A true Bayern fan wins with the team. A true Bayern fan loses with the team. A true Bayern fan breaks his or her nose, when Mark van Bommel and Miroslav Klose break their noses.
Weekly Dose 23.04.08
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Addendum to last week’s Weekly Dose: yet another Luca Toni puff piece. (International Herald Tribune)
Those could be Werder’s new kits. (1 2 3)
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach will come to the US. (NY Times)
In case anyone missed it: the official Bundesliga Report 2008 is out and you can learn some fascinating things; i.e. [...]
Masters of Space and Time
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When I was a kid, Dr. Emmett Brown taught me, that certain interventions into the past or future could create a time paradox and cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. That’s the worst case scenario.
Sunday’s match between Nuremberg and Wolfsburg was a [...]
Snapshot: Proud Parents
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Wahiba and Franck Ribery with their new arrival. Delivery took a bit longer than originally expected, but all went well in the end. They named it DFB Pokal; 52 cm in height and weighs 5,7 kg (1,7 feet and 12,5 pounds).
Congratulations.
Bundesliga Offside Rewind 19.04.08
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Welcome to a revised edition of my weekly blog internal handing out of link love. From now on you can check out the highlights of one week of Bundesliga blogging and try to guess who is the player/coach/manager on the picture on the right. Twice the fun I hope.
Abby’s match recap is hands down the [...]
Weekly Dose 18.04.08
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Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich’s renaissance more than any other player (scroll down and click on the numbers or on weiter to navigate through the slideshow); via probek.net. (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin)
Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich’s renaissance more than any other player II (scroll down and click on the numbers or on weiter to navigate through [...]
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