The top of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hoffenheim to close the gap but not
much more. The bottom of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hertha to keep dreaming
about Bundesliga survival but not much more.
Rookie Coach of the Year. Also known as the Markus Babbel Trophy.
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I pulled a Jupp Heynckes this week and thus the following links will have to make do for the
moment.
- Louis van Gaal is not a god. He's a jazz singer. (YouTube)
- Football's winning formula revealed: give the ball to the other team and lose all your
challenges. (Ballspiel)
- Mainz 05 are starting to build a global fanbase.
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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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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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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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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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Serie A is back and the European soccer season is almost all the way back in full swing.
If you're a fan of Italian soccer then you're weekend as arrived, with Oguchi Onyewu and AC
Milan among the teams kicking off today to start the Serie A season.
There's not just Italian soccer on the slate.
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Serie A is back and the European soccer season is almost all the way back in full swing.
If you're a fan of Italian soccer then you're weekend as arrived, with Oguchi Onyewu and AC
Milan among the teams kicking off today to start the Serie A season.
There's not just Italian soccer on the slate.
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by GIANFRANCO PANIZO
Oguchi Onyewu won't be playing in the Milan Derby this weekend, but fans may get a chance to
watch him make his Serie A debut when AC Milan faces Siena on Saturday as the new Italian season
begins.
That is just one of the many televised Serie A matches to look for this weekend as lots of
the league's opening games are being televised, including Juventus-Chievo, Inter Milan-Bari and
Bologna-Fiorentina.
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by GIANFRANCO PANIZO
Oguchi Onyewu won't be playing in the Milan Derby this weekend, but fans may get a chance to
watch him make his Serie A debut when AC Milan faces Siena on Saturday as the new Italian season
begins.
That is just one of the many televised Serie A matches to look for this weekend as lots of
the league's opening games are being televised, including Juventus-Chievo, Inter Milan-Bari and
Bologna-Fiorentina.
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There is much to like about the DFB-Pokal.
First of all, its' format contrasts nicely with all other season long competitions. A pure
knockout tournament. 90 minutes minimum. 120 minutes and penalty shootouts if necessary. No draws.
No rematches. No second legs. If you are the away team, live with it.
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It's time to brush up on your knowledge of provincial Germany and long forgotten club name
prefixes. The draw for the first round of next season's DFB-Pokal took place today.
Personal Picks of the Round:
Kickers Offenbach - Eintracht Frankfurt (Fierce Derby, Arch Rivals = Fun and Violence - not that
the two should go together and hopefully it'll be mostly peaceful)
Fortuna Düsseldorf - Hamburger SV (sure to become a 51500 sell out)
Union Berlin - Werder Bremen (Union's fan renovated Old Forestry stadium deserved no less than the
title holder for it's first official match)
Everybody else
Germania Windeck - Schalke 04
Concordia Hamburg - TuS Koblenz
Sportfreunde Lotte - VfL Bochum
Tennis Borussia Berlin - Karlsruher SC
Dynamo Dresden - 1.
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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 [.
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The DFB-Pokal Round of 16 draw took place on Sunday, and the UEFA Cup group stage draw just
concluded an hour ago. DFB-Pokal Round of 16 SC Freiburg - FSV Mainz 05 VfB Stuttgart - Bayern
Munich Bayer Leverkusen - Energie Cottbus Hamburger SV - 1860 Munich Karlsruher SC - SV Wehen
Wiesbaden VfL Wolfsburg - Hansa Rostock Carl Zeiss Jena - FC [.
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The Allianz Arena from the ouside. Art or is it!?
Me (left) and Nick. Dortmund til we die!
Inside the Allianz Arena - large beer hall just out of shot.
The most impressive stadium ever* (*from the outside)
Generali Sportpark home to Spvgg Unterhaching.
The home fans trying their best at Unterhaching.
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