The Jan Schlaudraff Goal Construction Kit

By: Jan | 4 Comments

For a goal of the month quality goal by Jan Schlaudraff we need two ingredients:
a = a chipped ball over an onrushing goalkeeper.
We’ll take Hannover’s second / Jan Schlaudraff’s first goal against Borussia Mönchengladbach from this weekend (5-1).
 

 
b = a great little run from left to right, dribbling past the entire back line of [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hannover 96, Videos, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hannover 96, Jan Schlaudraff, Videos, Werder Bremen

Diego wins Goal of the Year 2007 Award

By: Jan | 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 [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Werder Bremen

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Five Things we learned from the DFB Pokal Round of Sixteen

By: Jan | 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 [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1899 Hoffenheim, 2. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Borussia Dortmund, DFB-Pokal, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Matchdays, TSV 1860 Munich, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

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Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (5/5): Diego

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Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
It’s all in the clip.

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Werder Bremen

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Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007 (3/5): Jan Schlaudraff

By: Jan | 1 Comment

Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions
Jan Schlaudraff has been one of the shooting stars of the last season, sort of. Judging by his performance during the first half of the season this assertion definitely holds true. He played some good football for Alemannia Aachen, scored some beautiful [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. Bundesliga, Alemannia Aachen, Bundesliga, Highlight Videos, Highlights, Jan Schlaudraff, Uli Hoeness, Werder Bremen