November 18th, 2009

International Break: Bochum Go to South Africa

By: Jan |

It has been a bleak season for VfL Bochum. The club sits 17th in the table, switched coaches instead of fortunes and only had Hertha Berlin to cheer them up. A trip to the national team can be a welcome change of scene for the players. Bochum’s central defender Anthar Yahia and their striker Zlatko [...]

Category: National Team, VfL Bochum, Videos

Tags: Anthar Yahia, National Team, South Africa, VfL Bochum, Videos, World Cup, Zlatko Dedic

November 2nd, 2009

Matchday 11: A Day at the Snail Races

By: Jan |

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The top of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hoffenheim to close the gap but not much more. The bottom of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hertha to keep dreaming about Bundesliga survival but not much more.
Rookie Coach of the Year. Also known as the Markus Babbel Trophy. Mainz 05’s coach Thomas Tuchel had [...]

Category: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Werder Bremen

Tags: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bruno Labbadia, FC Bayern Munich, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Heiko Herrlich, Hertha BSC Berlin, Jerome Boateng, Matchdays, Thomas Tuchel, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Werder Bremen

September 23rd, 2009

Weekly Dose 23.09.09

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Hertha Berlin – where dreams metaphors become reality. (Ballspiel)
Kicking you while you are down: Raphael Honigstein hands out some more Hertha bashing. (Guardian)
Let Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger turn you into a VfL Bochum fan and then make our Bochum Offside your browser’s new start page. (ESPN Soccernet)
A Q&A with Edin Dzeko. (ESPN Soccernet)
VfB Stuttgart and Germany legend [...]

Category: Hertha BSC Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

Tags: Edin Dzeko, Hansi Müller, Hertha BSC Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Weekly Dose

September 21st, 2009

Bundesliga Matchday 6 Wrap-Up

By: Jan |

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Extra Time. We can end the debate about where the seven minutes of extra time came from in the Manchester derby. They were taken from the Bundesliga’s three Sunday fixtures, where the refs decided to call it a day after pretty much exactly 90 minutes. It’s not really a coincidence but rather an annoying habit. [...]

Category: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum

Tags: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Jens Lehmann, Marcel Koller, Matchdays, Stefan Kießling, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum

August 6th, 2009

The Bundesliga Offside Bundesliga Season Preview

By: Jan |

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It’s time to preview the eight most important teams of the upcoming Bundesliga season.
Bayern
Pre-Season: Bayern’s pre-season started like all pre-seasons during odd numbered years by putting between 50 to 100 million Euros into circulation, to make up for not signing anyone during the even numbered years. This time they also played a mean practical joke [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

May 23rd, 2009

Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog

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What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I’ll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal with it.
For everyone else it’s season 46 episode 34 of the Bundesliga. We’ve already been served 2970 minutes high on excitement and low on answers – the latter will [...]

May 12th, 2009

Guide to the Bundesliga’s Season Finale

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Three matchdays to go and there is still pretty much everything to play for at the top and the bottom of the table. A welcome change to last season, where we had to make do with a little tussle for the UEFA Cup and Intertoto spots and Nuremberg putting up not much of a fight [...]

Category: Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, Facts and Figures, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

April 5th, 2009

Jens Lehmann makes a good Touchdown Pass Receiver

By: Jan |

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On Friday Jens Lehmann signed his contract extension and on Saturday he decided to give something back to his fans. In Stuttgart’s away game against Bochum Jens Lehmann caught a 37 yard touchdown pass/cross from Bochum’s Joel Epalle to make it 1-0 for the home side. Good stuff. Joel Epalle was credited with the goal, [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Videos

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Jens Lehmann, Joel Epalle, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Videos

March 13th, 2009

The Bundesliga Money League

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I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga club for the 2007/2008 season. The data seems to come from an article in the print edition of Kicker magazine. Said article supposedly dealt with the official Bundesliga report for [...]

March 7th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23

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A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Pacific Standard Time (PST, CET -9h) to help Landon Donovan get used to life in Los Angeles again.