One of These Players is not Like the Others

Answer: Didi Hamann. All other players were transfers from Karlsruhe to Bayern, while Hamann came through Bayern’s youth system for a change.
Kudos to: BVBFan and Luke
Honorable Mentions: Luke also correctly suggested that only Mehmet Scholl is a disastrous 3. Liga coach and half a point to Laurie for spotting Sternkopf’s infamous mullet.

One of These Players is not Like the Others #2

I have to admit that my selection of players was too ambiguous.
Answer: Grafite. All other players won the Golden Boot or whatever award is handed out to a league’s leading goalscorer in the Bundesliga and another league…
Márcio Amoroso – Serie A and Bundesliga.
Luca Toni – Serie A and Bundesliga.
Marek Mintal – Slovak Superliga and Bundesliga.
Grafite – Bundesliga only.
Kudos to: nobody
Honorable Mentions: Luke was correct that except for Mintal all also won the Bundesliga. Joe made a good case why Amoroso is the odd one out.

Name the Player #6

Answer: Werder Bremen’s Torsten Frings
Kudos to: clash and Juliet

Name the Player #7

Answer: Werder Bremen’s Marko Marin
Kudos to: Country

Which player is seen here reflecting large amounts of light straight back to the sun?

One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others?

From left to right: former Dortmund striker Márcio Amoroso, Wolfsburg striker Grafite, Bayern striker Luca Toni and Nuremberg striker/midfielder Marek Mintal.

A fairly easy one to solve I think.

One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others?

If you had a German name and researched it, you’d probably end up learning that 800 years ago a poor pig farmer built his hut right beside a hole in the ground and so your family was subsequently named after this hole. A Portuguese or Brazilian name on the other hand is more like a soap opera and includes the names of your father, mother, first girlfriend, your father’s mistress, your mother’s gardener etc. They have quite exciting stories to tell, but are way too long to fit onto a football jersey. This circumstance turned Edison Arantes do Nascimento into Pele or Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite into Kaka.

There aren’t nearly enough Portuguese players in the Bundesliga to make the following quiz any challenge. But as we found out in a previous post, it’s mandatory for Bundesliga clubs to have at least one Brazilian player in their squad. Now it’s time for you to prove how much you know about them, by decrypting which players are hidden behind the following “real names”:

1. Edinaldo Batista Líbano
2. Marcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza
3. Ronaldo Aparecido Rodrigues
4. Paulo César Fonseca do Nascimento
5. Claudiano Bezerra da Silva
6. Raoul Eduardo Travassos Tagliari
7. Carlos Luciano da Silva
8. Pedro Geromel
9. Leonardo de Déus Santos
10. Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri
 
 
Name more…

When my subscriptions ran out I never ever heard of either Bayern or Stuttgart again. The same could basically be said about Hamburg too, except when it is my birthday…

Last year Romeo Castelen, Hermann the Dinosaur and Joris Mathijsen mailed me to congratulate me.

And this year Marcell Jansen did the same. At least that’s what he wrote. The photo rather suggests that he is about to go, I don’t know, there’s definitely something manic in his eyes and smile.

Next year I want Frank Rost please.

Please send your fake takeover applications to admin@nufc.co.uk and the real ones to daryl[at]theoffside[dot]com.

Update: Just as I write this post the Borussia Dortmund Offside goes up for auction as well. If you are more the romantic type who can do without the successful and without the wealthy then this is a blog for you.

Update 2: I should have taken a little look around before writing this as there are even more team blogs available: Leverkusen Offside, Muklenblacklen Offside and Eintracht Frankfurt Offside. Blog for two of them and we’ll give you the third one for free.

Update 3: I think I see the pattern emerging, so it’s easier to just say that the Hamburg Offside, Cologne Offside, Bayern Offside, Bochum Offside, St. Pauli Offside and Hertha Offside are the only team blogs currently not looking for a new blogger.

It doesn’t have to be white. Just make sure it fits the color-scheme of your football club of choice.

2. Use the paper to take part in a pre-match fan choreograpgy.
 

 
3. Wad the paper into a paper ball and throw it onto the pitch.

4. Let the football gods work their magic.
 

 
5. Retrieve the paper ball and put it on eBay.
Rebranding it as “Paper Ball of God” is optional.

6. Earn 4510 Euros.

Name more…