Quote of the Day: Rudi Völler’s Spiderman Collection

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Q: Herr Völler, how is your Spiderman collection doing?
Völler: (laughs) It’s in a box in the basement of my parents’ house in Hanau.
Q: How did you end up collecting (of all things) Spiderman comics in your childhood?
Völler: It was simply a hip thing to do in the Sixties. And by the way: it wasn’t called [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Die Spinne, Miscellaneous, Quote of the Day, Rudi Völler, Spiderman, Werder Bremen

Holiday Dose 24.12.08

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Borussia Dortmund’s mascot Emma takes a trip around the world. (Emma Weltweit)
A Day in the Life of Rainer Willfeld, who teaches football to street children in Burkina Faso. (DW Bundesliga Kick Off! – MP4 – VOD)
Working 447 days for 4 minutes of football. (bundesliga.de)
The fans of third division side Union Berlin go hands on and [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich, Hertha BSC Berlin

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund, Burkina Faso, Emma, FC Bayern Munich, Hertha BSC Berlin, Luca Toni, Lucio, Union Berlin, Weekly Dose

Quote of the Day: Three Fantastic Goals

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The third goal was fantastic. The fourth too. And the second as well.
Lucien Favre’s stream of consciousness in the wake of Hertha’s 4:0 victory over Karlsruhe.
You can scrutinize the validity/bias of this statement in the disappointingly chronologic video below.

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Videos

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Video: Frankfurt Fans sing the Pippi Longstocking Theme

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Actually, they just sing “schalalalala” and then “Hey Eintracht Frankfurt!” followed by more “schalala”, but they do it to the tune of the Pippi Longstocking theme (German “Hey Pippi Langstrumpf!” version, English Maude Flanders Christian summer camp version, cool original Swedish version). And they are doing it quite well, while jumping up and down at [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt, Videos

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Name and Shame: Wolfsburg’s Diving Duo

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The Culprit: Grafite (11 goals / 1 assist) and Edin Dzeko (5 goals / 7 assists)
The Team: VfL Wolfsburg
The Indictment: Chronically weak sense of balance.
The Evidence: See highlight video from this season below

The Verdict: Grafite has been in my bad books since last season already, as he doesn’t just perform the odd dive, but also [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, VfL Wolfsburg, Videos

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Edin Dzeko, Grafite, VfL Wolfsburg, Videos

Photo: Yes We Can

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Why waste a perfectly good slogan on boring politics, when three points and a place in the Bundesliga are at stake? At least Karlsruhe fans thought so ahead of the match against Werder Bremen (1-0).
Bremen is the smallest of Germany’s Federal States, but thanks to DFL rules is still worth a full three points. [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Karlsruher SC, Photos, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Barack Obama, Karlsruher SC, Snapshots, Werder Bremen