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Wenn ein Spiel sonst nicht viel zu bieten hat, dann muss halt ein kurioser Treffer her, um es
sehenswert zu machen. So geschehen heute in der LTU-Arena bei der Partie zwischen Bayer Leverkusen
und dem Karlsruher SC. In der 71. Minute kommt es zu einem Zweikampf in der Nähe der Mittellinie,
Leverkusen rückt raus, Sebastian Langkamp grätscht zum Ball und drischt die Kugel direkt in die
Maschen.
Ever wondered what would have become of Philipp Lahm, had he decided against the career of a pro
footballer?
So now we finally know what Andriy Voronin needs that ponytail for and what happens with it, once
he takes the hair tie off m/. With that mystery solved we can now start deciphering what his
"East European Trance DJ from 1997" outfits are all about.
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 [.
This is not Manuel Neuer's way of paying tribute to one of Germany's best ever goalkeepers - it is
his way to exact revenge. Revenge for four minutes in May 2001.
Manuel Neuer was 15 when he stood in the curve of Schalke's old Parkstadion, ready to celebrate
Schalke's first championship since 1958.
European football competitions used to be a straight forward affair. Two cups for each domestic
league title and another one for the best of the rest all played out in a two-legged knockout
format. Then came the G-14, breakaway league threats and UEFA's response with a complicated mix of
pre-group stage qualification knockout ties, group stages and post group stage knockout ties.
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.
Kaiserslautern's Martin Amedick has the second funniest name in world football. (The World Game)
Spot it: which Bundesliga team is featured in this old Hip Hop video? (YouTube) How a Schalke and a
Dortmund fan experienced the 133rd Revierderby. (Bundesliga Talk) The story of adidas as told by an
adidas commercial.
A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the
comments. This weekend all times will be Peru Time (PET, CET -6h), in honor of Werder Bremen's man
of the match against Milan: Claudio Pizzarro. *** Saturday [07.35] This edition is a bit late. I
was out on Friday and could only [.
Last week's look at the family affairs behind adidas and Puma was just to warm you up. This week we
learn how the two brothers briefly build a three stripes Nazi bazooka, ironically almost got blown
to pieces by an Allied tank and then supplied the US army with basketball and baseball shoes.
(Spiegel Online) Ultras [.
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.
Statistics haven't been too kind to Hertha this season. Wether you look at possession, shots on
target or one-on-one situations - all the bragging rights relevant numbers usually favored Hertha's
opposition once the match was over. Numbers which reinforced the believe that this team was riding
it's luck and robbing others of their well deserved [.
A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the
comments. *** Friday Trivial pre-match stats: Hoffenheim have lost four of five top of the table
clashes. Hoffenheim will play four of those five top of the table clashes at home in the second
half of the season.
How do you promote anti-right wing extremism, anti-racism, anti anti-semitism, anti-sexism and
anti-homophobia with one big stadium friendly choreo? Check out tonight's Werder - AC Milan match
and see for yourself. (Bundesliga Talk) The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a
boon for the Bundesliga.
Hoffenheim's coach Ralf Rangnick isn't nicknamed The Professor for nothing and this is his latest
creation: a combined striker/goalkeeper. With his fetish for "polyvalent" players,
Hertha's coach Lucien Favre must be green with envy. Anyone got an idea for a name for this beast?
11 Siege, 2 Unentschieden und 42 erzielte Tore. So las sich nach dem 17. Spieltag der laufenden
Saison die Bilanz des Aufsteigers aus Hoffenheim, welcher zuvor den Durchmarsch aus Liga 3 gelang.
Resultat dieser außergewöhnlichen Leistung war die Herbstmeisterschaft. Ganz Deutschland
schnalzte mit der Zunge, wenn Ibisevic, Ba, Carlos Eduardo und Co sich die Bälle zuspielten.
Foreigners play for Arsenal London or Inter Milan. Foreigners made England's footballers so bad,
that they couldn't qualify for Euro 2008. Foreigners now make England's footballers so good, that
they will easily qualify for the World Cup in 2010.
The Bundesliga currently employs 497 players, of which 260 players are foreigners (52,3%).
Sorry for letting this blog rot away in the late August sun for so many weeks. Other work took
over and left some time but not much energy to spend on other things. But the team blogs have been
bursting with energy all the more at the same time and a few more came back to life, so I guess
there were still enough places on The Offside for Bundesliga related updates.
So Freunde der Sonne! Die Winterpause ist zum Glück bald wieder vorbei. Für die
Übergangszeit haben wir euch einen Leckerbissen herausgesucht. Während der bisherigen 17
Spieltage gab es einige schöne Tore zu sehen. Die Schönsten präsentieren wir euch
hier und jetzt.
Es scheint als gäbe es ab der Saison eine weitere Neuerung in der Bundesliga. Die DFL plant ab
der Saison 2010/2011 die Einführung eines einheitlichen Ligaballs. Dies ist schon seit
längerer Zeit zum Beispiel in der Premier League und der Serie A gängige Praxis, in denen
dadurch pro Saison Einnahmen von von 7 bzw.
Werder Bremen hat im Spitzenspiel gegen den FC Schalke 04 einen Kantersieg gefeiert und den zweiten
Tabellenplatz der Fußball-Bundesliga zurückerobert. Das war die Schlagzeile in der
letzten Saison nach dem 28. Spieltag. Und was jetzt? Werder und Schalke stecken in der Krise und
dümpeln im Mittelfeld der Liga rum.
Waking this blog from its' winter sleep was long overdue and what better way to do it, than with a
completely experimental feature, which I might immediately scrap again in time for the next
matchday. A while back we had a Bundesliga forum complementing this blog. Theoretically it's still
there actually, but realistically the only people [.
A running commentary of the weekend's Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the
comments. I modified the format a bit and introduced timestamps. Due to the time-zone spanning
super-global nature of this blog, I decided to feature a different timezone each week. In honor of
one of our most frequent commenters I'll [.
We should be happy, that he isn't putting his money into museums and art galleries, but into
football among other things. The German FA's secretary general Wolfgang Niersbach about
Hoffenheim's sugar daddy Dietmar Hopp. In fact the German FA is so happy and thankful, that they
bought a football database application by ICW, a startup company [.
Eight teams went in, four went out and on the surface the romance of the cup is alive and well. On
the inside, those teams "surprisingly" eliminated are in a deep crisis. Mainz 05 1-0
Schalke 04 Is there anyone still keeping track of the number of setbacks Schalke has to endure this
season? They are [.
"Maybe a three year contract?" Landon Donovan to a journalist after being asked whether
he would receive a farewell present after playing his last match for Bayern Munich. It wasn't quite
a new contract. Uli Hoeness held a short speech for him and the farewell present was a watch. It
was probably the right coach at [.
The way they play one-touch football in the 2. Bundesliga. (101 Great Goals) The way a 3. Liga
keeper made himself immortal. (YouTube) The way SoccerLens wraps up the weekend's Bundesliga
action. (SoccerLens) The way Goal.com wraps up the weekend's Bundesliga action. (Goal.com) They way
the Bundesbag wraps up the weekend's Bundesliga action.
Wer hätte das gedacht? Der VfL Wolfsburg gewinnt gegen Bayern München mit 5:1. Zur Halbzeitpause
sah es noch nach einem Unentschieden aus, doch in der zweiten Halbzeit schlugen Edin Dzeko und
Grafite eiskalt zu, und schossen Magaths Elf mit je zwei Treffern auf Platz 1. Die beiden sind ein
tolles trio Besonders sehenswert finde ich [.
It was an uncharacteristic match for Hertha Berlin against Borussia Dortmund (1-3). Their defense
and goalkeeper weren't infallible and their offense wasted dozens of chances - statistically and
usually Berlin only need three chances per goal this season. So this great little solo run by
Raffael to level the score (for only a couple of [.
- Third division table toppers Union Berlin are building a stadium for the fans by the fans.
(Deutsche Welle: VOD - MP4)
- Hoffenheim's fairy dust has evaporated and now Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger heaps more misery on
them by challenging their title as Germany's greatest village team. (ESPN Soccernet)
- Talking about misery.
This photo is disturbingly fascinating.
Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images
Getting the sack as a football coach isn't really the worst thing that could happen to you and
to Jürgen Klinsmann. Except for the banking sector there probably isn't a job on this planet where
screwing up pays you so much in golden handshakes. Looking at it this way, this season's best
places in Europe to make a quick buck for just a couple of months of work and media/fan abuse
are:
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Yesterday German news channels were reporting non-stop about the sudden, yet somewhat expected
end of Klinsmann's reign at Bayern Munich. Self-styled pundits were only briefly interrupted by
news snippets of potential new swine flu cases, followed by a statement of the leader of the
Green/Labour/whatever party on, well, Klinsmann.
- There's a St. Pauli Offside now! There must be a better way to integrate it into the Bundesliga
Offside than hoping for an extra quick promotion to the first division. (St. Pauli Offside)
- A close Bundesliga title race decided on the final matchday? Happens 50% of the time, so what's
all the buzz about?
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.
Mittlerweile sind bereits drei Spieltage in unserer geliebten Bundesliga vergangen und es wird
Zeit für ein kleines Zwischenfazit. Welche Trends zeichnen sich ab, welche Mannschaften haben
einen guten Start hingelegt und welche eher weniger? Hier meine Eindrücke kurz
zusammengefasst:
- Den Bayern müssen die Gegner noch nicht mit dem Fernglas hinterher schauen.
Bis zur Sportschau müssten sich die Fans noch gedulden! Das ist eindeutig zu lange für alle
Bayer 04 und BVB Fans. Und das Sky Bundesliga-Paket für ca. 30€ kann sich ja nun auch nicht
jeder leisten. Daher haben wir für euch aus dem befreundeten Ausland schon mal das Videomaterial
des Freitagsspiels zusammengesammelt, damit ihr euren Freunden sagen könnt: "Ich hab die Tore von
Barrios und Friedrich ja schon gesehen.
So Freunde der Sonne! Die Winterpause ist zum Glück bald wieder vorbei. Für die
Übergangszeit haben wir euch einen Leckerbissen herausgesucht. Während der bisherigen 17
Spieltage gab es einige schöne Tore zu sehen. Die Schönsten präsentieren wir euch
hier und jetzt.
Es scheint als gäbe es ab der Saison eine weitere Neuerung in der Bundesliga. Die DFL plant ab
der Saison 2010/2011 die Einführung eines einheitlichen Ligaballs. Dies ist schon seit
längerer Zeit zum Beispiel in der Premier League und der Serie A gängige Praxis, in denen
dadurch pro Saison Einnahmen von von 7 bzw.
Heute Abend greift die Hertha aus Berlin auf der Bielefelder Alm nach dem Platz an der Sonne. Bei
einem Sieg wäre man zumindest über Nacht mit einem Zähler Vorsprung Tabellenerster.
Wie lange haben die Berliner Fans darauf gewartet? Da stellt sich mir die Frage, gibt es denn
überhaupt Hertha-Fans?
