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Matchday 16: Kings of Your Castle
The Bundesliga’s in-form teams travelled through Germany to spread shock and awe. Bayern. Following Bayern’s notti magiche in Turin, Louis van Gaal warned that the game against Bochum would be very difficult. He later conceded that he was wrong. Bayern continued where they had ...
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The Numbers Game: Matchday 16
Strange records were equalled or broken this weekend. 3. Hannover scored three own goals in their match against Borussia Mönchengladbach. They set a new record for own goals scored by one team and equalled the record of most own goals in a Bundesliga match (Kaiserslautern 1-3 Stuttgart, 9th ...
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Champions League: Mental Blocks And Bus Blockades Are So Last Saturday
The 16th best team in the Bundesliga joined the elite circle of the 16 best teams in Europe, capping of a week of, mostly, pleasant surprises in the Champions League. Stuttgart followed up Bayern’s unexpected masterclass against Juve, with an equally unexpected performance. It ...
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Champions League: Bayern Through. Wolfsburg Out.
Bayern. Hats off to Bayern. They didn’t just get the result they needed, they got in style beating Juventus 4-1. This match certainly rates as the best Bayern performance of the season. Something I didn’t really expect. Bayern got their season back on track as far as the ...
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Matchday 15: Tristesse as Usual
The official match ball of the 2010 World Cup made its’ Bundesliga debut this weekend. It’s the “roundest ball ever” and its’ name translates to “celebrate”. There were three 0-0 draws to celebrate on its’ inaugural matchday coupled with ...
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The Numbers Game: Matchday 15
Some sad, some odd and some encouraging records. 100. After already missing 100+ sitters much earlier in his career, Kevin Kuranyi now scored his 100th Bundesliga goal on Sunday. He scored it against Hertha, mind you, but congratulations anyway! He is the 47th player in the history of the ...
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Photo: Stuck on You
Success can glue a team together. But in Hertha’s case nothing quite seems to have the intended effect this season. A sun burst caused a disturbance in the earth’s magnetic field. A butterfly flapped its’ wings. In the Latvian capital of Riga Hertha won a football match ...
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The Money Game: DFB-Pokal Earnings
They say the DFB-Pokal is the shortest route to Europe. But it’s not just short, it’s actually more lucrative than Europe itself – as in the Europa League. I stumbled upon the official figures released by the DFB for the 2009/2010 season, and with the transfer window set to ...
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Caption This: Joris Mathijsen and Hermann
Hamburg defender Joris Mathijsen and Hamburg dinosaur Hermann joke around…
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One of These Players is Not Like the Others #3
One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others? From left to right: Jermaine Jones, Benedikt Höwedes, Manuel Neuer and Kevin Kuranyi. You might need YouTube to solve this one.
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The Painter and the Artist
No week passes without Mesut Özil being appreciated, hyped and worshipped just a little bit more. On display in the studio are infamous paintings like The Man with the Golden Helmet, The Girl with a Pearl Earring and, soon, The Boy with a Pair of Magic Feet. Two masterpieces from the ...
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Europa League: Hamburg 2-0 Rapid Vienna
Hamburg booked their place in the Round of 32 of the Europa League with a 2-0 victory over Rapid Vienna tonight. Marcell Jansen and Marcus Berg made sure of the victory within six minutes shortly after the break. The Europa League is like an alternate reality for Hamburg. One where ...
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Kaiser Classics: On the State of the Modern Game
A new regular feature dedicated to the alpha, omega and all the greek letters in between of German football: Franz Beckenbauer. This is from an interview with Beckenbauer from 1975. I guess even in the Seventies the good old times everyone keeps talking and dreaming about, the times ...
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The Way They Were: Felix Magath
This is Felix Magath being pretty in pink in 1977 while plying his trade for Hamburg. A time when he was in his prime as a football player and when he was still called Wolfgang apparently. The photo raises some questions about Magath’s obsession with fitness drills.
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Weekly Dose 02.12.09
Bayer Neverkusen? Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ ( Telegraph ) Bochum’s coach Heiko Herrlich brings lessons from fighting cancer to the Bundesliga. ( Deutsche Welle ) Michael Ballack takes pride in the words: Ich bin ein Londoner. ( Times Online ) Bayern Munich is the FC Uli ...
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The crest of … ?
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Germany’s Most Disturbing Football Videos: Patrick Owomoyela’s Short-Lived Eurodance Career
Current Borussia Dortmund fullback and former German international Patrick Owomoyela liked to keep all his options open when he was a teenager. While honing his football skills at TSV Stellingen, he also played competitive basketball and apparently pursued a career as lip-sync rapper in a ...
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Separated at Birth: J.Lo and J.Löw
They have almost identical names. They both became famous wearing tracksuits. J.Lo has her own line of skin care products. J.Löw advertises skin care products. Enough said. Props to Löw’s assistant “Slick” Flick in the background – the coolest of the bunch.
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Talent Spotting: Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
bundesliga.theoffside.com — Borussia Mönchengladbach wasn’t the club you’d go to to watch some attractive attacking football last season. The... team was fighting relegation and their coach Hans Meyer was willing to bring back from the dead whatever it took – ... (more) Talent Spotting: Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Name the Player #8
Which player hides behind this tattoo?
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