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May 12th, 2008

Snapshot: Footballers who look like Hitler

By: Jan | Comments 5 Comments

Here are Borussia Mönchengladbach wunderkind Marko Marin and Canadian striker Rob Friend sporting fake moustaches, in honour of their Dutch coach Jos Luhukay, who likes to wear his facial hair this way and who guided Gladbach back to the Bundesliga.



April 23rd, 2008

Weekly Dose 23.04.08

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

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. […]

April 1st, 2008

Rudi Völler’s Career in Goals

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

…lasts 9 minutes and 54 seconds and spans two rock songs and such illustrious clubs as 1860 Munich, Werder Bremen, AS Roma, Olympique Marseille and Bayer Leverkusen.
 

February 29th, 2008

5 late Conclusions from the DFB-Pokal Quarter-Final

By: Jan | Comments 7 Comments

1. Stuttgart have ultimately botched up their season.
They unceremoniously crashed out of the Champions League and down into the depths of the Bundesliga mid-table section already. The DFB-Pokal remained something of a lifeline for Stuttgart’s season. The quick route to Europe and even the chance for some silverware and thus salvation. The stage was set […]

February 20th, 2008

Weekly Dose 20.2.08

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

Footage from a friendly between Germany and England played back in 1930 - a 3-3 draw. (blinkx.com)
1. FC Kaiserslautern aka the Red Devils are in trouble. (Goal.com)
Michael Rensing makes his first step to become a famous goalkeeper by picking up a silly injury. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The weekly Honigstein Bundesliga column. (Guardian sportblog)
The weekly Bundesbag Bundesliga […]



February 8th, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Familiar Faces in unfamiliar Places

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

Tracked down and chronicled with love and care by our team of bloggers.

Lothar Matthäus in a Knight Rider episode. (Bundesliga Offside)
The German national team in the alps of the past. (Bundesliga Offside)
Flair football in Berlin - even though it were the guests delivering it. (Hertha Offside)
A 4-4-2 formation auf Schalke. (Bundesliga Offside)
Christian Lell in/at/under ??? […]

February 8th, 2008

Stadium Envy: Millerntor Stadion (FC St. Pauli)

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

The Millerntor stadium is the home ground of FC St. Pauli and is worth a separate follow-up post to yesterday’s story. It’s a cosy slightly rotten 16000 capacity ground, which soon won’t be as rotten and small anymore, but hopefully just as cosy. The place is currently being renovated and expanded to hold 27000 fans. […]

February 7th, 2008

FC St. Pauli: Non-established since 1910

By: Jan | Comments 4 Comments

Today, second Bundesliga side FC St. Pauli announced a sponsoring deal with Orion, a mail order shop selling an assortment of erotic products. Orion will get some advertising space in St. Pauli’s Millerntor stadium and supply the club’s fan shop with 20000 St. Pauli branded condoms.
If you ask yourself what type of club attracts and […]

February 2nd, 2008

Diego wins Goal of the Year 2007 Award

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

He has been voted the Bundesliga’s player of the season 2006/2007, he is on a good way to successfully defend his title this year and so it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise, that he now also won the Goal of the Year 2007 award by the German Bundesliga TV show Sportschau. The […]

January 31st, 2008

Five Things we learned from the DFB Pokal Round of Sixteen

By: Jan | Comments 4 Comments

The DFB Pokal offered a little prelude to this weekend’s Bundesliga action with Bayern Munich playing an away match against a third division club in front of 60000 fans, while second Bundesliga sides Hoffenheim and Jena sent two Bundesliga teams packing. What else?
1. You don’t need Jens Lehmann for Penalty Heroics
Borussia Dortmund famously didn’t sign […]






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