Coming soon: More Sunshine and less Rain
By: Jan | September 12th, 2008In the figurative sense, as in: good news. In reality it’s actually less sunshine and more snow. And If you factor in global warming, it would be less sunshine and more rain. But that’s OK.
The bosses of all 36 Bundesliga clubs have met and decided that the winter break is too long and needs shortening; where long means 6-7 weeks. Starting next season the winter break will be - drumroll - 4-5 weeks long.
Baby steps. Progress. But it’s still some way to go, before I can enjoy my dream scenario with a Bundesliga expanded to 20 teams and a short two week break over Christmas and New Year. Someday…
To get you in the mood for some winter football, here’s a game from Ireland advertising the benefits of playing football in winter time; and as a bonus there’s also a brief Kevin Kuranyi fashion tribute at the end.
In other news: the clubs are also keen to revive the Ligapokal (League Cup), which has so far only been a small pre-season summer tournament - and this season it was skipped altogether due to the Euros. The new Ligapokal could be expanded to feature all clubs from the first and second division. Add amateur sides and you have the DFB-Pokal. Sounds a bit redundant to me. But, the new Ligapokal is still in the planning stages, and I’ll wait until the DFL has come up with a definite format, to decide whether it has promise.
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Christmas-sy music from the video.
As someone who comes from a country which has no four seasons (to the extent that there is a joke that Singapore only has one season - summer) given of our geographical position, I always get the feeling of Christmas whenever I watch like what you posted, Jan. It’s either rain or shine at where I am. Seeing real snow has always been on my list of what to do before kicking the bucket. There’s a reason why on my blog, I have a photo of snow-covered trees.
Anyhow, I like what the Sporting Life website has to report on reviving the Ligapokal - ‘And the DFL may look at England for more ideas in reviving the Liga-Pokal competition, as the Carling Cup is seen as a model which could make the German equivalent more attractive.’
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Pretty much on par with the Bremen-St. Pauli Pokal match a couple years ago. The only “snow match” I can remember from last season was Hertha against Hannover, but I could very well have missed some.
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Jan, I don’t need this. Winter’s waaaaay too long where I live.
JK-Good post
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Diana: well, I don’t remember the last time we had a stereotypical white Christmas in the part of Germany where I live. So for me it’s usually when the weather is greyish and undifferentiated that I automatically think it’s Christmas time.
Luke: at least in the first division the Hertha match was the only one featuring some snow.
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Chris! Pass some of those snow over here then. We seriously need it here. JK, it will have turn to water by the time it arrived here.
Thank you, Jan.
Anyhow, I remembered when I was in China last year, I was secretly jealous of what I saw on the TV news from the hotel room. I was visiting my relatives in southern China (this was around the Christmas week) for the first time and the TV news then reported on the snow in the north of China (I remembered Beijing was mentioned and the Chinese capital is based in the north of the country). I then learned that you cannot really get any snow in the southern part of China. The ‘unfortunate’ part, my grandparents came from there. But then again, for many Singaporeans (like me) who trace their ancestry back to China, many came from the southern part of the country.
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