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The Numbers Game: Matchday 16

The Offside: Bundesliga 14 December @ 06:05 PM EDT

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 November 1963).

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Matchday 15: Tristesse as Usual

The Offside: Bundesliga 07 December @ 09:19 PM EDT

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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Matchday 14: Bayern Bounce Back

The Offside: Bundesliga 30 November @ 08:56 PM EDT

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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The Numbers Game: Matchday 14

The Offside: Bundesliga 30 November @ 03:06 PM EDT

This week we pay tribute to the Fibonacci sequence and wonder what Hertha has to do with it.

0. Bayer Leverkusen haven't lost a game in the Bundesliga yet. They are the only undefeated team. It's still a bit early to say the title is their's to lose, but the doubts concerning the team's title credentials derived from the club's Neverkusen past are fading away.

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Matchday 12: Captain Future

The Offside: Bundesliga 10 November @ 03:09 PM EDT

The clubs at the top of the table keep crawling along. The clubs at the bottom keep sinking. Referees had a forgettable weekend and in between a player and a coach dropped bombshells.

Philipp Lahm. Bayern's disappointing draw at home against Schalke. Robben's moment of madness for which he should have seen a red card.

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The Numbers Game: Matchday 11

The Offside: Bundesliga 02 November @ 10:51 AM EDT

We keep it strictly binary this week.

0. The combined number of goals Bayern's strike duo Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni scored so far this season.

1. The number of goals former Bayern striker Lukas Podolski scored so far this season. Lukas Podolski joined Cologne in the summer, after Klose and Toni were continuously given the nod ahead of him.

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The Story of Germany’s Reunification (as told by the Bundesliga)

The Offside: Bundesliga 05 October @ 07:14 AM EDT

Saturday's Bundesliga action coincided with the 19th anniversary of Germany's reunification, which conveniently is also the country's national holiday albeit without lethal fireworks or military parades. To celebrate the event Berlin went all out artsy with some megalomaniac puppeteering, while the Bundesliga chose a more pragmatic approach, by retelling the the events through football over 90 minutes.

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Bundesliga Matchday 7: Ze Roberto to F4. Checkmate.

The Offside: Bundesliga 28 September @ 08:19 PM EDT

Hamburg remain in control of the top, Hertha remain in control of the bottom and with his wins over Bochum, Dortmund and the Schalke fans Felix Magath is now in total control of the Ruhr Valley.

Battle Chess. When a commenter on one of Germany's public broadcasters attempted to summarize and categorize the match between Hamburg and Bayern, he kept talking about this game being for tactic freaks, but with an uncertainty to his statements, as though he didn't really know what was going on and didn't want to admit to it.

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Bundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What Stayed the Same?

The Offside: Bundesliga 02 September @ 09:31 PM EDT

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.

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Bundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What is the Same?

The Offside: Bundesliga 02 September @ 09:31 PM EDT

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.

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The Bundesliga Offside Bundesliga Season Preview

The Offside: Bundesliga 07 August @ 02:28 AM EDT

It's time to preview the eight most important teams of the upcoming Bundesliga season.

Bayern
Pre-Season: Bayern's pre-season started like all pre-seasons during odd numbered years by putting between 50 to 100 million Euros into circulation, to make up for not signing anyone during the even numbered years.

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Transfer Talk: The Hunter and the Hunted

The Offside: Bundesliga 16 July @ 12:30 AM EDT

The transfer period started with two early big money moves. In fact, very big money moves anywhere outside of Madrid. Diego sealed a transfer to Juventus for €24.5m, while Bayern were willing to spend €30m for Mario Gomez; further bonus payments not included.

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Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog

The Offside: Bundesliga 23 May @ 04:01 AM EDT

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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Wolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.

The Offside: Bundesliga 18 May @ 02:52 PM EDT

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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The Bundesliga Money League

The Offside: Bundesliga 13 March @ 11:55 AM EDT
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23

The Offside: Bundesliga 07 March @ 05:45 PM EDT
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. Click to continue reading...

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 22

The Offside: Bundesliga 28 February @ 08:48 AM EDT
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 21

The Offside: Bundesliga 20 February @ 12:59 PM EDT
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 20

The Offside: Bundesliga 13 February @ 03:01 PM EDT
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. Click to continue reading...