Werder Bremen

May 11th, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: With the Grace and Beauty of Tim Wiese

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That’s how we did our blogging this week.

Anna had a little present for Bayern Munich. (Stuttgart Offside)
Stuttgart finally get a dedicated football stadium arena. (Stuttgart Offside)
Tim Wiese is walking in Toni Schumacher’s shadow. (Bundesliga Offside)
Scarfs for girls or scarfs for fans? (Bundesliga Offside)
Kaka and Eto’o could be playing for Berlin next season. (Hertha Offside)
It […]



May 9th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it’s time to catch up with it in this double header edition.
1. Bremen and Schalke win Champions […]

May 8th, 2008

Quote of the Day: Tim Wiese doesn’t give a Shit

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

 
“Some referees probably give a red card for this, but I don’t give a shit about it now. We won the game.”
 
Tim Wiese in his post match interview after a heated northern derby between Hamburg and Bremen ended 1-0 for the visitors. The “some referees would give a red card” bit refers to this kung-fu […]

May 8th, 2008

Weekly Dose 08.05.08

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

Bayern Munich is the 5th most valuable football club in the world, followed by Schalke 04 in 10th, Dortmund in 15th, Hamburg in 17th and Bremen in 18th position. Don’t take Forbes’ data about the clubs too literally though. They will try and tell you that Schalke is owned by the Veltins brewery. (Forbes)
Mad Jens […]

April 29th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 30

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1. Only math stands in Bayern’s way now.
Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between them and Werder Bremen. 24 goals stand between them and […]



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 19th, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind 19.04.08

By: Jan | Comments 9 Comments

Welcome to a revised edition of my weekly blog internal handing out of link love. From now on you can check out the highlights of one week of Bundesliga blogging and try to guess who is the player/coach/manager on the picture on the right. Twice the fun I hope.

Abby’s match recap is hands down the […]

April 15th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 28

By: Jan | Comments 7 Comments

1. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches.
Last week Nuremberg’s match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg’s travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremberg’s match against Wolfsburg got abandoned after heavy rain rendered the pitch unplayable. A Bundesliga first. Nuremberg were leading […]

April 14th, 2008

Werder Bremen go green

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

A new-look Weserstadion to fit the club’s colours is on its way and should be ready by the end of 2009.
Werder had to cope with bitching/suing neighbours and exploding steel costs, which delayed and crippled their original plans for the Weserstadion. They eventually ditched the expansion plans and stuck to a makeover. The curves will […]

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.
 






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