Weekly Dose 08.10.08

By: Jan | October 8th, 2008

• Reviewing this year’s Bundesliga kits pt.1 (oldfootballshirts.com)
• Reviewing this year’s Bundesliga kits pt.2 (oldfootballshirts.com)
• Reviewing the history of kit sponsors in the Bundesliga. (ESPN Soccernet)
• Reviewing the life of someone who looks after all those kits. (DW Bundesliga Kick Off! - VOD - MP4)
• An interview with Germany’s in-form striker Patrick Helmes. (DW Bundesliga Kick Off! - VOD - MP4)
• The obligatory look at this year’s Bayern Munich Dirndl and Lederhosen fashion show. (The Spoiler)
• The obligatory look at the disaster at Bayern Munich. (Guardian Sportblog)
• The obligatory look at the reversed fortunes of the current and a former Tottenham manager. (Times Online)
• The obligatory sacked coach. (Bundesliga Talk)
• Bundesbag E07S02: The First Casualty. (Some People are on the Pitch)
• A love letter to the Bundesliga - which you could use as a sales pitch to bankers and business men. (SoccerLens)
• Another love letter to the Bundesliga - which you could use to comfort and reassure yourself. (bleacher report)
• Stereotype proven! Scientists at goal.com labs ™ have analyzed last weekend’s Bundesliga matches and their findings revealed that, when a German team (Bayern) dominates another German team (Bochum) - possession, shots on target, corners, you name it - and the dominated German team still snatches a draw, then the dominated German team (Bochum) is prove of German efficiency, while the dominant and wasteful German team (Bayern) can be completely neglected, due to being harmful to one’s preconceptions. (Goal.com)
• Inspired by Goal.com’s groundbreaking work, the Bundesliga Offside lab ™ is close to finishing a series of statistical analysis, which will demonstrate how Borussia Dortmund’s penalty shootout defeat against Udinese Calcio in the UEFA Cup is prove of German clinical precision during penalty shootouts. (Bundesliga Offside - soon, stay tuned!)

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Braunschweig, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Jägermeister, Jürgen Klinsmann, Jos Luhukay, Martin Jol, Patrick Helmes, Weekly Dose

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• diana |  October 8th, 2008 at 2:38 am

  
  
  

  You fooled me on the last one! Anyhow, I found quite a good link from The Independent website on a report of a book (to be released in November) of putting some of the widely held beliefs about the game to the test. The book based on the findings of countless past matches.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/fact-or-fiction-form-in-football-954440.html

  On theme of penalty shootouts…in the report, it does put two myths of penalty shootouts to the test. Lifiting it from the report - ‘Home teams in penalty shoot-outs have no advantage’. Also from the same report - ‘Goalkeepers dive too often for penalties, as opposed to standing still, which is more effective’.

  Insightful for me.

  And, the more I see articles like the one from Soccerlens (which I first came across it through on the main page under The Daily Dose like the day before or something) and The Bleacher Report, the more I have to remind myself the newspaper coverage doesn’t change here.

  *putting on a straight face*

  Posted from Singapore

  

• diana |  October 8th, 2008 at 5:07 am

  
  
  

  http://www1.uefa.com/magazine/edition=759380/newsid=759380/videopopup.html

  Just only discovered that. It’s the UEFA website’s video magazine. There’s an interview with Schaaf in there. A short one actually.

  Posted from Singapore

  

• Double Pivot |  October 8th, 2008 at 9:47 am

  
  
  

  I think I already know the answer to BVB analysis. Kuba and Hajnal (foreign players) missed while Kehl and Sahin scored. How though do you explain Valdez

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• Jan |  October 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am

  
  
  

  “How though do you explain Valdez ”

  We are aware of the problem. Bobby and Woody are currently over at the lab looking into it. We are confident we can come up with a satisfactory explanation. When you can use an inefficient and an efficient German team to prove German efficiency, then our task is a piece of cake really.

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• Double Pivot |  October 9th, 2008 at 4:37 am

  
  
  

  I just found a piece on WikiFibia

  Nelson Valdez’s great grandfather’s original name before fleeing the Nazi regime for Paraguay in the 1930’s was Wolfgang Von Durr.

  Posted from United States

  

• Jan |  October 9th, 2008 at 5:40 am

  
  
  

  And here is a true bit of Wikitrivia:

  Schalke’s Uruguayian midfielder Carlos Großmüller has an interesting family background. His grandfather served on board of the warship Graf Spee, which the crew scuttled just outside of Montevideo in 1939. Most of the crew members decided to stay in South America including Carlos grandfather. Carlos never met him I think and doesn’t speak any German though (maybe now that he’s at Schalke).

  Posted from United States

  

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