New Year Dose 01.01.09

By: Jan | January 1st, 2009

• A must read interview with Ralf Rangnick. Together with the other must read interview with Dietmar Hopp you’ll get a very good insight into the Hoffenheim project, going far beyond fairytales, miracles and unicorns. (Spiegel Online)
• The Bundesliga’s best XI of the Hinrunde according to… (Deutsche Welle)
• The Bundesliga’s worst XI of the Hinrunde according to… (Deutsche Welle)
• Should the FIFA ever pass a law, that all players in a national team need to have a Polish immigration background, then this is how the German national team would look like. (Bleacher Report)
• Diego would like to meet 50 Cent and tell George W. Bush a thing or two about foreign politics and sustainable economic growth. (Eurosport)
• Oliver Kahn and Rudi Völler take a prominent place among the greatest sending offs ever. (Goal.com)
• If your new year’s resolution included learning Mandarin (to become the 885.000.001st Mandarin speaker) and extend your commitment to the Bundesliga, then try one of these two sites (or both). (dfo.cn – gerfans.cn)

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1899 Hoffenheim, FC Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1899 Hoffenheim, Diego, FC Bayern Munich, Philipp Lahm, Ralf Rangnick, Weekly Dose, Werder Bremen

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• diana |  January 1st, 2009 at 1:53 am

  
  
  

  Happy New Year, Jan. And everyone else on the Bundesliga Offside too. Whole load of stuff to catch up on. I was out with my family from late morning to early afternoon (it is almost the evening here now).

  Anyhow…great read from the Der Spiegel website in regards to the Ralf Rangnick interview. Very insightful indeed.

  By the way, anyone wanting me to be their Mandarin ‘teacher’ (I did clicked onto the two links in the last dose)…I am not qualified to be one. Even if that is my second language and I had been speaking it since I was four.

  My command of the language ever since I graduated from secondary school (it will have been five years now, since we are now in 2009), has gone back to the basics. Now more or less just speaking it in daily life. My former school teachers are going to be shocked if they knew about how my Mandarin had went (psst, I was always among the best in class…and that only really happened when I was in secondary school). I may have failed my first language English once back in school (badly to the extent even my parents were stunned…even I had no idea why did it happened) but, Mandarin was one of those subjects which I had never ever failed. Never a single time.

  To be serious, I am always proud of that record I have. My friends were always jealous that I always did well in a good manner, but I did not have any secret formula how I went about studying it.

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• Parker |  January 1st, 2009 at 6:44 pm

  
  
  

  Ha ha, this is a huge ad for dfo and gerfans.

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• Parker |  January 1st, 2009 at 7:34 pm

  
  
  

  BTW Jan, I think there are more than 885.000.000 Mandarin speakers now. There are at least 1.3 billion people in China and in other parts of the world, a lot of people know how to speak mandarin.

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