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Weekly Dose 25.02.09

Jan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:22:40 +0000

Kaiserslautern’s Martin Amedick has the second funniest name in world football. (The World Game)
Spot it: which Bundesliga team is featured in this old Hip Hop video? (YouTube)
How a Schalke and a Dortmund fan experienced the 133rd Revierderby. (Bundesliga Talk)
The story of adidas as told by an adidas commercial. (YouTube)
The deleted scenes which didn’t make it into the final cut of the aforementioned commercial. (ESPN Soccernet)
Arne Friedrich talks Hertha. (DW Bundesliga Kick Off! – MP4 – VOD)
Raphael Honigstein talks about Bayern’s latest defeat. (Guardian sportblog)
Mad Jens Mad Moments 2008/2009. (BILD)

Weekly Dose 20.2.08

Jan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:48:00 +0000

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 column. (Bundesbag)
Philipp Lahm diagnoses Franz Beckenbauer with multiple personality disorder. (Eurosport)
Last week Aberdeen came one goal short of emulating their historic 3-2 victory over Bayern back in 1983 – with Sir Alex Ferguson as their manager. Highlights from Aberdeen’s 1983 campaign with further victories over Real Madrid and Hamburg can be seen in this video. (YouTube)

Weekly Dose 20.11.07

Jan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:11:08 +0000

I skipped one week, because I wasn’t busy enough collecting links. But here’s an extra long episode you can skim through while listening to a Finnish YMCA cover.

Frank Ribery plays keepy-up with a cartoon bomb to promote FIFA08. (Who Ate All The Pies)
The Bundesliga is a league in transition. (New York Times)
The Bundesliga is a league at a crossroads. (International Herald Tribune)
The Bundesliga is a league at a cash crossroads. (ESPN Soccernet)
A blog of a fan of both German and English football located in Singapore. Quite a combination. The last two links were snatched from this blog as well. (Breakaway)
The reason why Kaiserslautern and Nuremberg are struggling in their respective leagues is because their crests are unimaginative and ugly. (Johnny on the Spot)
Former FC Cologne player Luciano Emilio was named MLS MVP. (The Offside)
Current FC Cologne player Alpay will play in the MLS soon. (Soccer Source)
Some Bundesliga clubs plan to spend their summer holidays in the US. (Soccer Source)

DFB-Pokal: St. Pauli get a Taste of their own Medicine and other minor and major Upsets

Jan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:14:36 +0000

Time to wrap up the second round of the DFB-Pokal.

Famous cup giant-killers St. Pauli had to learn what it feels like to be knocked out by a minnow. St. Pauli have recently been promoted to the second division and as such were clear favourites to beat the Werder Bremen reserves, who get their work out in the third division. Yet, Werder Bremen II held St. Pauli to a 2-2 draw for 120 minutes and with only 9 men on the pitch after two red cards. And as the unwritten laws of the cup wanted it that night, the minnow made it to the next round on penalties. The match was also remarkable because Ivan Klasnic celebrated his comeback after 10 months and two kidney transplants. And it couldn’t have been a better occasion. He started his career at Pauli before moving to Bremen.

The other major upset happened in the east of Germany, were second division relegation candidate Jena knocked out cup holders Nuremberg on penalties as well. A minor upset was produced by third division outfit Rot-Weiss Essen who knocked out second division side Kaiserslautern.

Plenty of DFB-Pokal video highlights can surely be found somewhere on the internets.

Not Bad: 2. Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A average Attendance

Jan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:47:23 +0000

This year’s second division (2. Bundesliga) has often been dubbed as the best ever. Part of it has been marketing by the TV stations, who hold the broadcasting rights, the other bit is true. There is an undoubtedly high number of former Bundesliga mainstays trying to make it back to the top flight.

To spice it up, there’s the cult club FC St. Pauli, who celebrate their return to professional football, and the billionaire backed village people of Hoffenheim, who invested a record €18m into their squad.

All of this also had an impact on the league’s average attendance figures so far. They don’t challenge the overall Ligue 1 and Serie A numbers, but hold up pretty well nonetheless. Just last weekend, 60.000 came to Munich to watch the derby against Fürth, and the classic between Mönchengladbach and Cologne was seen by 54.000.

2. Bundesliga Top Four
1. 1860 Munich 44.940
2. FC Cologne 41.780
3. Bor. Mönchengladbach 40.911
4. FC Kaiserslautern 25.606
League Average: 18453

Ligue 1 Top Four
1. Olympique Marseille 53.705
2. Paris St. Germain 36.204
3. Olympique Lyon 36.058
4. RC Lens 34.979
League Average: 21.574

Serie A Top Four
1 AC Milan 51.353
2 AS Roma 46.185
3 Inter 43.267
4 Fiorentina 32.821
League Average: 22.947

Numbers according to www.weltfussball.de