Im Dezember des vergangenen Jahres entschieden sich die Verantwortlichen des VfB Stuttgart zu
personellen Konsequenzen und entließen Teamchef Markus Babbel – sein Nachfolger: der Schweizer
Christian Gross. Nun, nachdem dieser seit über einem Monat auf der Bank der Schwaben Platz nimmt,
lässt sich dessen bisherige Bilanz durchaus sehen.
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Die Zeit des Wartens hat ein Ende – heute Abend um 20.30 Uhr rollt der Ball wieder in der
Fußball-Bundesliga. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt werden der FC Bayern München und 1899 Hoffenheim die
Rückrunde der Saison 2009/2010 eröffnen. Aber seien wir ehrlich: So lang war die Wartezeit nun
auch wieder nicht, da die Winterpause aufgrund der im Sommer anstehenden Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft
in Südafrika verkürzt wurde.
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Bald hat die bundesligafreie Zeit wieder ein Ende – am Freitag werden der FC Bayern München
und 1899 Hoffenheim die Rückrunde der Saison 2009/2010 eröffnen. Dann wird es erst so richtig
ernst, denn an den noch ausstehenden 17 Spieltagen müssen die Mannschaften ihr ganzes Potential
abrufen, wenn es wieder darum geht, welche Mannschaften den Gang in die zweite Liga antreten
müssen, wer in der nächsten Saison international vertreten sein wird und natürlich wenn es um
die Frage aller Fragen geht: Wer wird den Titelkampf für sich entscheiden können?
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Bald startet die Bundesliga in die Rückrunde der Saison 2009/2010. Am 15.01. werden Bayern
München und 1899 Hoffenheim um 20:30 Uhr das erste Spiel der Bundesliga im Jahr 2010 bestreiten.
Bis dahin müssen die Spieler wieder gezielt vorbereitet sein – etwas länger Zeit haben dagegen
die Angestellten bei den Vereinen, welche für Neuverpflichtungen zuständig sind.
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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 widespread criticism of its overly wobbly nature
by goalkeepers and players alike.
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Bayern Munich couldn't ask for much more. Bordeaux saved their Champions League campaign. The
AGM turned out to be a peaceful teary eyed farewell party for Uli Hoeness (swaps general manager
for president) and Franz Beckenbauer (swaps president for honorary president). The Bundesliga sent
flowers in the form of dropped points.
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Sweden and Celtic FC football legend Henrik Larsson has played his final professional match at age
38. Larsson featured in Helsingborg's 2-0 Allsvenska defeat to Djurgarden last night to bring an
end to a storied career that began in 1988. Larsson leaves the game with over 300 goals scored for
the likes of Helsingborg, Feyenoord, Celtic [.
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Bayern were busy exercising control and dominance. Leverkusen were busy defending. Hamburg were
busy passing the ball around. Creativity, inspiration and excitement were busy waiting for a date
that would never show up. Not this weekend.
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. VfB Stuttgart will host Sevilla in
the Champions League on Tuesday and then head off to Hannover for, what is now, a relegation
six-pointer.
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Hoffenheim's Vedad Ibisevic, Carlos Eduardo and Luiz Gustavo put on their football boots.
(Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)
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Establishing something comparable to England's Big Four remains a distant dream for last
season's top four in the Bundesliga. Wolfsburg are 7th after disappointingly drawing with Bochum.
Munich are 8th after disappointingly drawing with Cologne. Stuttgart are 13th after disappointingly
losing to Bremen.
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Establishing something comparable to England's Big Four remains a distant dream for last
season's top four in the Bundesliga. Wolfsburg are 7th after disappointingly drawing with Bochum.
Munich are 8th after disappointingly drawing with Cologne. Stuttgart are 13th after disappointingly
losing to Bremen.
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Extra Time. We can end the debate about where the seven minutes of extra time
came from in the Manchester derby. They were taken from the Bundesliga's three Sunday fixtures,
where the refs decided to call it a day after pretty much exactly 90 minutes. It's not really a
coincidence but rather an annoying habit.
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Hamburg HSV: Bruno Labbadia (Germany) Bayern Leverkusen: Jupp Heynckes (Germany) Werder Bremen:
Thomas Schaaf (Germany) FC Schalke 04: Felix Magath (Germany) Borussia Mönchengladbach: Michael
Frontzeck (Germany) Eintracht Frankfurt: Michael Skibbe (Germany) VfL Wolfsburg: Armin Veh
(Germany) FC Bayern München: Louis van Gaal (Holland) VfB Stuttgart: Markus Babbel (Germany) 1899
Hoffenheim: Ralf Rangnick (Germany) FSV Mainz 05: Jörn Andersen (Norway) Borussia Dortmund:
Jürgen Klopp (Germany) Hannover 96: Dieter [.
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Soccer by Ives has reported that former Scott Gallagher player Charles Renken has signed with
German-side 1899 Hoffenheim
Two of the best players in the U.S. national team youth system will be taking their development
to Europe.
ESPN.com's Justin Rodriguez is reporting that Charles Renken and Joseph Gyau
will be joining the 1899 Hoffenheim youth academy.
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1899 Hoffenheim was the biggest story in European football last fall.The newly promoted side was
leading the Bundesliga as Christmas approached. Of course, Hoffenheim fell off but they left their
mark on the world of football and the Bundesliga.
Today, Hoffenheim signed two of the best young American prospects ever:Â attacker Joseph-Claude
Gyau and midfielder Charles Renken.
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MLS Rumors 25 August @ 03:50 PM EDT
According to Justin Rodriguez at ESPN (click here for the original article and all the details),
Gyau (16) and Renken (15) have signed multi-year contracts with Bundesliga upstarts 1899
Hoffenheim. Some quotes that should encourage US fans and allay concerns of player development
are:
"The key to the decision made by the boys and their families is that Hoffenheim constructed an
outstanding path for their development as players," Segal said.
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Project 2010 25 August @ 02:25 PM EDT
Soccernet is reporting that US u17 starlets Joseph Gyau and Charles Renken have signed contracts
with German Club 1899 Hoffenheim. The two youngsters, who are generally considered the top two
prospects in the u17 squad, will split time between Hoffenheim and the Vancouver Whitecaps youth
academy for the next year, before a full time move to Germany.
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German club SC Freiburg have unveiled their new home (heimtrikot), away ( Auswärtstrikot) and
third ( Ausweichtrikot) for the 2009-10 season. The new SC Freiburg jerseys have been made by Nike.
Duravit are the jersey sponsors. The home jersey is blue with horizontal white pinstripes. The
third jersey is blue with white pinstripes, while the away jersey [.
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In other words: our Wolfsburg Offside is looking for someone to take over and join our lively
Bundesliga family here at The Offside.
Please send your fake takeover applications to admin@nufc.co.uk and the real ones to
daryl@theoffside.com.
Update: Just as I write this post the Borussia Dortmund Offside goes up for auction as well.
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Grafite gets Wolfsburg's party started (Reuters)Our look at the Winners and Losers from 2008/2009
across Europe's major leagues continues now on Just-Football. Part 1 assessed the English
Premier...
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Scottish Premier League side Hibernian have unveiled their new 2009-10 Home and away shirts. The
new Hibs kits have been manufactured by Le Coq Sportif. The home shirt is a green and white outfit.
The club crest is in the centre of the shirt, with the logo of sponsors McEwan Fraser below it. The
Le Coq Sportif [.
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TSG 1899 Hoffenheim have signed Brazilian midfielder Maicosuel for a fee of €5.4 million. The 22
year old attacking midfielder was on loan at Botafago, and was the best player in the Rio de
Janeiro State Championship. Maicosuel is Hoffenhiem's second summer signing after Karlsruhe's
Christian Eichner.
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German Bundesliga side FC Koln ( Cologne) have unveiled their new home shirt for the 2009-10 home
season. Over 1400 fans were present for the live unveiling. The red and white strip is manufactured
by Reebok. It uses the PlayDry technology for optimum moisture management. Sponsors REWE have their
logo in the centre of the jersey, while [.
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What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I'll leave this philosophical
question unanswered and let our American readers deal with it.
For everyone else it's season 46 episode 34 of the Bundesliga. We've already been served 2970
minutes high on excitement and low on answers - the latter will have to be packed into the upcoming
90 minutes.
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Italian giants AS Roma have unveiled their new shirts for the 2009-10 season. The new AS Roma
2009/10 shirts are made by Kappa. The home jersey is pretty much the same, with a minor change in
the collar. We again have the Kappa logo on the shoulders, and that of sponsors Wind in the centre
of [...] Related posts:
- New Crystal Palace 2009-10 shirts- home and away Championship club Crystal Palace have revealed
their new home and.
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Uli Hoeness predicted that this championship won't be decided on goal difference, but rather
that someone would slip up, and he was right albeit in the wrong places.
Hannover 0-5 Wolfsburg. Except for the sell out crowd there was nothing really
derby-ish about this game (and then, the last match at home usually tends to be a sell out
anyway).
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Oh, what a pity, Wolfsburg and Stuttgart won, Bayern and Berlin didn't. It could've been really
close and thrilling at the season's finale, next weekend but unfortunately two competitors were not
able to do what they had to. Winning, that is. The games:
Hannover 96 – VfL Wolfsburg 0-5
No surprise, another embarrassment by the club from lower Saxony.
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Bundesliga side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, who lead the league at the winter break, have revealed their
new 2009-10 home and away shirts. The new Hoffenheim trikots ( shirts) are manufactured by Puma,
and are available to buy for a price of €69.95. The home shirt is primarily blue in colour, while
the away outfit is white.
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TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a German football club based in Hoffenheim, a suburb of Sinsheim,
Baden-Württemberg. In 2007 the club decided to adopt the use of the short form name 1899
Hoffenheim in place of the traditional TSG Hoffenheim. A fifth division side in 2000, the club made
a remarkable advance to the Bundesliga in [.
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A principios de temporada en la Bundesliga, el pequeño equipo del 1899
Hoffenheim sorprendÃa a todo mundo y se posicionaba en los primeros
lugares de la tabla general.
De hecho al finalizar la primer vuelta el "Hoffe" obtenÃa el meramente nominal
tÃtulo de invierno, empatando en puntos con el campeón reinante Bayern
München, pero superándolo en cuestión de goleo.
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Coming soon
Hansa Rostock v Kaiserslautern (01:05:09)
The EFW team are kicking off May in style with a visit to everybody's favourite football and beer
destination, Germany. Our flight arrives in Berlin on Friday morning before we board the train - or
as we like to call them 'mobile pubs' to Rostock.
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Soccerblog 05 April @ 02:53 PM EDT
The Bundesliga would have us believe that.
A Bosnian duo are striking mayhem.
Edin Dzeko of VFL Wolfsburg has scored 14 goals. He and Brazilian Grafite with 18 are benefiting
from the playmaking ability of Dzeko's countryman, Zvjezdan Misimović, the captain of the Bosnia &
Herzegovina national team.
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I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they
published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga club for the 2007/2008
season. The data seems to come from an article in the print edition of Kicker magazine. Said
article supposedly dealt with the official Bundesliga report for [.
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A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the
comments. This weekend all times will be Pacific Standard Time (PST, CET -9h) to help Landon
Donovan get used to life in Los Angeles again. *** Friday [22.00] Schalke 1-0 Cologne Schalke
scored a brilliantly strung together team goal.
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Its derby day in MadridHello to one and all and welcome to this week's instalment of 'Three to See'
on Just Football. Last week we brought you games in England, Italy and Denmark. To quickly recap,
here were the results of those three games:Manchester United 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur (United win 4-1
on penalties)Inter Milan 3-3 AS RomaBrondby 0-1 FC CopenhagenSo what do we have for you this week?
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Its derby day in MadridHello to one and all and welcome to this week's instalment of 'Three to See'
on Just Football. Last week we brought you games in England, Italy and Denmark. To quickly...
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