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The royal club from Madrid have probably regretted selling excellent Dutchman Arjen Robben. The new Bayern starter had a dream debut at Allianz Arena, where he got the chance in the second half against current champions Wolfsburg and made the best possible use of it.

„Flying Dutchman" inherited the jersey with number 10 on it from his compatriot and natural-born scorer, Roy Mackay.

The US did not play particularly well, but three points is three points. After the loss at Azteca, the most important thing the US needed to do was put a W up on the board, and they did that. There passing was poor, their link-up play was stilted, and their defense of the wings was a constant worry, but they got that vital win.

Many US fans have been rubbing their hands in anticipation of having Schalke's Jermaine Jones playing under the red, white and blue. The son of a German mother and American father has applied to FIFA to get his team designation switched from Germany to the US. The holding midfielder is a tough tackler in the Bundesliga – a league of tough tacklers.

Now that the transfer window has closed in the footballing world, I can not think of any move in German football that has gotten me more excited than the transfer of Arjen Robben from Real Madrid to FC Bayern München. Other than being the "biggest" club in Germany, I never really had a good reason to [.

Jens Lehmann was dropped by Stuttgart after attending Oktoberfest, hours after his team's defeat against Cologne (2-0) in Bundesliga. Plus, Arsenal's former goalkeeper gifted his rivals the 2nd goal by losing the ball outside the area. As we can see up there in the picture, Jens is smiling (something suspicious in itself) next to his wife [.

FC Bayern striker Luca Toni has vowed to fight for his place in the club until the very end. The 32 year old Italian international has been out of favor in the German glamour club since Louis Van Gaal's appointment as manager. Toni revealed not long ago that he is considering a transfer in order to [.

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The German Bundesliga continued with a several matches on Saturday, September 12, 2009 including Borussia Dortmund v Bayern Munich and Hamburg SV v VfB Stuttgart. Here's a recap of all the ematches from Saturday along with video highlights.

German Bundesliga Recap Saturday, September 12, 2009

Bayern Munich had a strong 5-1 win at Borussia Dortmund as they look to win the Bundesliga title this season.

There is a good reason why I'm a mere football blogger and Louis Van Gaal is a successful football manager and here's it is. When the news broke that Arjen Robben was signing for Bayern Munich I scoffed. "Pah!" I said "What do Bayern need another winger for. They need an attacking central midfielder, not competition for Franck Ribery.

Strikers live and die by their goal tallies, so I thought it'd be interesting to take a peak to see who is doing well as the European season gets under way. Here's a snapshot, see the link below for the goal tallies on an on-going basis.

Top
League in Goals Top
Scorers England 4 Jermaine Defoe, Wayne Rooney France 4 Yoann Gourcuff Germany 4 Paolo Guerrero, Stefan Kiessling Italy 3 Antonio Di Natale Portugal 3 Oscar Cardozo, Garcia Radamei Spain 3 Roberto Soldado

The players above have scored at an amazing rate over the first league games.

MLS on TeleFutura: New England - Chivas USA at 3pm. EPL on Setanta: Birmingham City - Aston Villa at 7am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Fulham - Everton at 11am. Bundesliga on GolTV: Cologne - Schalke 04 at 11:30am. ESPN2 has a La Liga game scheduled for 11am, teams not available at press time. La Liga on GolTV: Xerex - Athletico Bilbao at 3pm.

Edin Dzeko is back with a bang! The Bosnia international striker, who spent most of the summer pushing for a dream move to AC Milan, has finally underlined his commitment to Wolfsburg with an outstanding decisive brace away to Schalke 04.

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: Chivas USA - Seattle at 3pm. EPL on ESPN2: Burnley - Sunderland at 7:30am. On Setanta: Arsenal - Wigan at 9:30am and Hull - Birmingham at 6:45pm. On Fox Soccer: Aston Villa - Portsmouth at 10m, West Ham United - Liverpool at 12:30pm, and Bolton Wanderers - Stoke at 5:30pm. Championship on Setanta: Cardiff City - Queens PArk Rangers at 10:15pm.

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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.

Online gambling company Bwin has secured the internet broadcasting rights for the top two divisions of Spanish football.

The company will screen the Primera and Segunda Divisións of La Liga for the next three years. Bwin has a similar partnership in place with Germany's Bundesliga.

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: Chicago - Salt Lake at 9pm. EPL on ESPN2: Liverpool - Burnley at 10am. On Setanta: Manchester City - Arsenal at 10am, Wigan - West HAm United at 6:45pm, and Portsmouth - Bolton at 10:15pm. On Fox Soccer: Stoke City - Chelsea at 10am, Spurs - Manchester United at 12:30pm, and Sunderland - Hull at 5pm.

While Emmanuel Adebayor's infamous lack of sportsmanship this past weekend has overshadowed Manchester City's emphatic 4-2 victory over his former club Arsenal, it is impossible to overlook the strong impact he has made at the Eastlands already.

The German Bundesliga much like other European leagues returned to action with Week 5 of exciting action. Hamburg continued its unbeaten start with another offensive explosion with a 3-1 home win over Stuttgart. Mladen Petric, Eljero Elia, Zé Roberto each scored their 2nd goals of the season.

• Clean it like the Kaiser. (The Local)
• Bayer may be only second in the Bundesliga but are top of the York Monday Six-a-side Football Leisure League. (The Press)
• Horst Hrubesch's crossbar challenge pwns Ronaldinho's crossbar challenge. (FANartisch)
• We've got our first title candidate (or second if you consider Bayern automatic seeds).

I'm sick of this crappy little network and having to deal with their bullshit.

They suck. Plain and simple! They promised us 3 games a week and they are already backing off to 2 games a week at best. They promised a contest that never materialized. They pick up Europa and won't even show German teams.

A lot has been said about Serie A's decline over the past couple of years. Critics have claimed the English Premiership and Spain's La Liga have become Europe's best leagues leaving Serie A to challenge the Bundesliga for third spot.

Sadly, Serie A has witnessed a sharp decline in the past few years that cannot be attributed to the lack of financial means alone.

Soccerlens Podcast duo Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg make ten big match predictions each and every Thursday and competing against one another throughout the season to discover once and for all who the best tipster is! As well as a large slice of pride being at stake, Clarkey and Spraggy also have copious amounts of beer riding on the outcome.

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Phew! That was a seriously entertaining weekend of footy, no? The soccer-gods are obviously in the mood for love as are Nico Anelka and Michael Ballack from Chelsea.

How were the results for you?

We sincerely hope you spent the entire weekend doing nothing but watching the games if not, you missed a corker of a Manchester derby and a crazy game between West Ham and Liverpool.

The annual pre-season guide published by kicker magazine lists every Bundesliga club's trophies. Even Mainz has an entry under the heading "Titles", namely: 1982 German Amateur Champions. (An honour handed out between 1950 and 1998.) Currently, there are only three teams in the top flight for which kicker does not list a single title.

Looks like the Bundesliga is where it's at, Kickettes.

Case in point: Luca Toni's arse to the wind activities pitch side at the Bayern Munich game on Tuesday. (Also note the sparkle in the eye of the woman to the far right of the pic, and the "I will never forget this moment as long as I live" expression on homeboy in the tie.

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All the European leagues are in full swing with teams starting to establish themselves as contenders. Manchester City is keeping pace with the top 4 in England but Chelsea and Man U remain in the top two positions. Real Madrid and FC Barcelona remain tied on points in the La Liga while the Serie A is still wide open with many of the top clubs losing earlier.

Die Fußball-Bundesliga macht derzeit Pause, denn es stehen Länderspiele an. Die einen testen einfach nur ihre Spieler, bei den anderen dagegen ist es ernst, denn es geht um die Teilnahme an der Weltmeisterschaft im nächsten Sommer. Am Mittwoch muss auch die Deutsche Fußball-Nationalmannschaft wieder in der WM-Quali ran.

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Player Info:
Name: Gojko Kacar
Birthdate: 26.01.1987
Origin: Serbia
Position: Midfield
Team: Hertha BSC Berlin
Video Info:
03.05.2009
Bundesliga: Hamburger SV - Hertha BSC Berlin 1:1

Player Info:
Name: Franck Ribéry
Birthdate: 07.04.1983
Origin: France
Position: Midfield
Team: Bayern München
Video Info:
12.09.2009 - Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund - Bayern München 1:5

Video Info:
12.09.2009 - Bundesliga
Borussia Dortmund - Bayern München 1:5

Video Info:
12.09.2009 - Bundesliga
Hamburger SV - VfB Stuttgart 3:1

There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia Mönchengladbach playmaker Günter Netzer is one who had the hair of legends.

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There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia Mönchengladbach playmaker Günter Netzer is one who had the hair of legends.

This post sets out to tell its' story.

Season 1965/1966 to 1966/1967

Here's the template from which to start.