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Weekly Dose 30.10.09
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I pulled a Jupp Heynckes this week and thus the following links will have to make do for the moment.
Louis van Gaal is not a god. He’s a jazz singer. (YouTube)
Football’s winning formula revealed: give the ball to the other team and lose all your challenges. (Ballspiel)
Mainz 05 are starting to build a global fanbase. [...]
Separated at Birth: Per Mertesacker and Mesut Özil and the Playmobil Giraffe and Zookeeper
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Champions/Europa League Matchday 3: It Takes Two
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2 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost them the games. Two such mistakes, coupled with the referee missing an offside position helped Sevilla to a comfortable 3-1 victory.
2 Own Goals. When Bordeaux’s Ciani picked up where Freiburg’s [...]
Showreel: Zé Roberto (HSV)
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Mark van Bommel signed a one year extension on his Bayern Munich contract last season. He had asked for two years. Bayern answered by referring to a club policy of giving players over 30 only one year extensions. At that time Martin Jol came sniffing around and rumors emerged that Hamburg might be willing to [...]
Weekly Dose 21.10.09
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The merits and shortcomings of football’s hire and fire practices. (Deutsche Welle)
The merits and shortcomings of a controlled offense. (Guardian)
The merits of Werder Bremen and the shortcomings of Bayer Leverkusen. (Some People are on the Pitch)
The merits of having millers as ancestors. (ESPN Soccernet)
The shortcomings of publishing an interview with Thomas Schaaf that has been [...]
Goals Galore: 6 + 9 Vintage Borussia Mönchengladbach Goals
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Vintage, in this context, means 1970s and brilliant. Borussia Mönchengladbach were the league’s most dominant club during that decade and won a then record five Bundesliga titles. Moreover they were also the ambassadors of style, with inspirational midfield and attacking talent in players like Jupp Heynckes, Günter Netzer (Ballon d’Or runner up 1972) or Allan [...]
One of These Players is not Like the Others
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One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others?
Category: MiscQuote: Ten Beers
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“It is a fairy tale that I ban everything. I only ban things that are hurting the team. But when someone comes to me and says he needs ten beers to score a goal, then I lecture him about the risks of alcohol consumption and give him ten beers.”
Schalke’s coach Felix Magath in an interview [...]
Category: FC Schalke 04Bundesliga Matchday 9: Babbel Bobble
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Bayern were busy exercising control and dominance. Leverkusen were busy defending. Hamburg were busy passing the ball around. Creativity, inspiration and excitement were busy waiting for a date that would never show up. Not this weekend.
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. VfB Stuttgart will host Sevilla in the Champions League on Tuesday and then [...]
Category: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, SC Freiburg, VfB Stuttgart, Werder Bremen
Tags: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Cha Du-Ri, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Jupp Heynckes, Mario Eggiman, Markus Babbel, Matchdays, Romeo Castelen, SC Freiburg, Thomas Müller, VfB Stuttgart, Werder Bremen
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