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...then let me help you out and fill you in with the details. 11.45am Beckenbauer uses the border
crossing at Heinrich-Heine street and declares his intentions to leave the same day again. 2.10pm
Beckenbauer arrives at his hotel. A bit later he goes to a French restaurant. He then has a chat
with Günther Netzer and gives [...]
In late 2004 Thomas Doll took over as new Hamburg coach. The club had a disastrous start into the
new season and was sitting at the very bottom of the table. Doll lead the team out of the
relegation zone and into the Intertoto Cup, through which the team eventually made it to the UEFA
[...]
A follow up to the Johan Cruijff post, as I thought I could just as well turn this day into
Dutch-German football rivalry day at the Bundesliga Offside. Credit goes to Inara from the Lyon
Offside for digging this one up. Frank Rijkaard spits at Rudi Völler's curly mullet during the
second round match of the [.
Barcelona will host Stuttgart tonight in their last Champions League group match. Both teams have
nothing to play for. Both manager's decided to shuffle their squads. And Barcelona's assistant
manager Johann Nesken's is now facing the difficult task to motivate his players for the game. He
figured a painful memory with one particular German team [.
All Bundesliga clubs are organised as eingetragener Verein (eV), which Wikipedia tells me would be
similar to a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in Britain or a Non-Profit Corporation (NPC) in the US -
to give you some orientation. They often aren't pure football clubs either, but can cover a variety
of sports.
Some users on YouTube have remarkable collections of vintage football videos, and I hope that their
accounts aren't as much in danger of being shut down for copyright violations, as the ones that are
providing more recent football footage. The following video comes from y2santos who shares a big
collection of US football soccer related [...]
