Steve Cherundolo returns to action as Hannover try to topple Schalke while Michael Bradley will do his best to keep Gladbach's strong run of results going against Frankfurt. Click to continue reading...

• New blog post To all who stayed, we salute you! http://bit.ly/2MRKUJ #
• Canada announce roster for upcoming Friendlies vs Macedonia & Poland http://tinyurl.com/yj9bwdv #
• Add Rob Friend & Paul Stalteri to Canada callups http://tinyurl.com/yjzhu3s #
• .@JohnMolinaro Nice work on the Lensky story btw.

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Bayern face Schalke, Hoffenheim host Wolfsburg and Dortmund head to Werder in Round 12...
Friday
Bayer Leverkusen – Eintracht Frankfurt
Saturday
Bayern Munich – Schalke
Borussia M'gladbach – Stuttgart
Mainz– Nuernberg
Hoffenheim – Wolfsburg
Bochum – Freiburg

Sunday
Hannover – Hamburg
Hertha Berlin – Koeln
Werder Bremen – Borussia Dortmund Click to continue reading...

There were many candidates his week, and I ended up splitting it between a pair of fightback 3-2 away wins: Michael Bradley's 'Gladbach keeping Hamburg from the top and Napoli doing the deed at Juventus.- Greg Seltzer Click to continue reading...

Tough challenges lie ahead for Leverkusen, Hamburg and Schalke in this weekend's Bundesliga action...
Friday
Bayer Leverkusen - Borussia Dortmund
Saturday
Bayern Munich - Eintracht Frankfurt
Borussia M'gladbach - Koeln
Hannover - Stuttgart
Mainz - Freiburg
Hoffenheim - Nuernberg
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Hertha Berlin - Wolfsburg
Schalke - Hamburg
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This weekend, we've had 'Gladbach's Michael Bradley give his team a late shot with a fine shot...... Matthew Dallman bag another pair for Sportfreunde Siegen (in red) in Germany and Ryan Guy ring the bell for St. Pat's (video to come... we hope).- Greg Seltzer Click to continue reading...

(video gol highlights di Stoccarda-Werder Brema 0-2)
Classifica:
1 B. LEVERKUSEN 20
2 AMBURGO 20
3 SCHALKE04 16
4 WERDER BREMA 15
5 HOFFENHEIM 14
6 MAINZ 14
7 WOLFSBURG 13
8 B. MONACO 12
9 E. FRANCOFORTE 10
10 FRIBURGO 10
11 HANNOVER 9
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Stuttgart host Bremen, Lukas Podolski returns to Munich and Prussians face off in Moenchengladbach in Round 8. Clark Whitney previews all the weekend action...
Friday
Schalke – Eintracht Frankfurt
Saturday
Hannover - Freiburg
Bayern Munich - Koeln
Bayer Leverkusen - Nuernberg
Bochum - Wolfsburg
Mainz - Hoffenheim
Borussia M'gladbach - Borussia Dortmund
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Stuttgart - Werder Bremen
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Friday, September 18 (all times local)
20:30 Schalke - Wolfsburg
Saturday, September 19
15:30 Bayern Munich - Nuernberg
15:30 Bochum - Mainz
15:30 Stuttgart - Koeln
15:30 Hannover - Dortmund
15:30 M'gladbach - Hoffenheim
Sunday, September 20
15:30 Frankfurt - Hamburg
17:30 Hertha Berlin - Freiburg
17:30 Bayer Leverkusen - Werder Bremen
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Lindsey Dean of GolTV was kind enough to speak with me about the Bundesliga.  Those of us in America will know Lindsey as the voice of Hallo Bundesliga, the league's review show on GolTV.  Lindsey is originally from Maine and grew up in New England; however, he enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1977 at the age of 19.

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Werder took a point from Alianz Arena (1:1) and if we are to judge from the play, the visitors deserved to take three points. 69 000 people at the sold-out stadium in Munich saw German international, Turkish-born Mehmet Ozil open the score minutes before the break. Mario Gomez was the one to level the score 73 minutes into the game with the assistance of Phillip Lahm.

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After a two and a half month break, the new season in Germany started without many surprises. Current champions Wolfsburg managed to crush Stuttgart's resistance at crowded Volkswagen arena and celebrate 2:0, thanks to Misimovic and Grafite.

Bundesliga will this season be playing in two different terms each Saturday and Sunday.

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A couple of more days and the new Bundesliga season will be in full swing. I waited too long this summer, already got used to last year's shorter summer period after the Euro 2008. Worst, there was only very little exciting transfer activity in the Bundesliga.

Bayern decided for some reason to pay 30M Euro for Mario Gomez, Werder bought Marin from Gladbach and the Bundesliga lost in Diego one of its biggest stars.

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Steve Cherundolo and Hannover were the upset victims of the first round, falling to Trier while Michael Bradley and Gladbach moved on as the German Cup got underway this weekend. Click to continue reading...

Am Samstag, als der BVB in Gladbach das Unentschieden sicherte und sich darauf verließ, dass der HSV das Siegtor nicht hinbekommt, da war ich mir plötzlich sicher, dass Hamburg noch gewinnt. Warum? Weiß ich auch nicht. Vielleicht war es der Glaube an einen Fußballgott, der nicht immer dieselben mit Papierkugeln bewirft.

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One more game for Michael Bradley and Borussia Mönchengladbach and the club can count itself in for another season in the Bundesliga. Gladbach are three points ahead of Arminia Bielefeld and have super goal difference of four goals. A tie (or anything better) by 'Gladbach against visiting Borussia Dortmund will keep Bradley and his teammates safe. Click to continue reading...

Die Saison 2008/2009 ist fast schon wieder vorüber. Doch bevor wir sie wie im Flug passieren lassen, will Doktor Fußball noch mal ermitteln, welche Mannschaften morgen was erreichen können, oder auch nicht. Die vergangenen Jahre haben uns gelehrt, dass in lediglich 90 Minuten ganze 9 Spiele und 18 Mannschaften in der Konferenz zu sehen, schon mal anstrengend werden kann, zumal für jedes Spiel im Schnitt nur 10 Minuten Zeit sind.

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When it all comes down to it, it doesn't matter how they did it.

There wasn't all that much football on display in Borussia Mönchengladbach's last two matches against Schalke and Cottbus, which of course wasn't Gladbach's fault alone. Schalke can control a game and dominate possession, but they can't really score goals or come up with a minimum of creativity and incentive.

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• The title race gets closer again in Scotland, just when you thought Rangers would pull ahead after this past weekend. Today Rangers fought back from a goal down, salvaging a point against Hibernian. Maurice Edu again played the full 90 minutes for Rangers, who are ahead of Celtic at the top of SPL on goal differential.

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• Rangers kept pace with Celtic in the Scottish Premier League by beating Hibernian 3-2. Maurice Edu grabbed the winning goal for Rangers, his second in recent weeks for the Glasgow club.
• Clint Dempsey went the full 90 minutes in Fulham's 0-0 draw with relegation-threatened Middlesbrough.

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Its been awhile since we've had some gratuitous transfer rumors about Standard Liege defender Oguchi Onyewu so let's fix that right now.
Kicker is now reporting that Michael Bradley's Borussia Moenchengladbach, which tried to acquire Gooch last winter, has renewed its interest in the 26 year-old Onyewu with a view toward picking him up on a free transfer this summer. Click to continue reading...

That one in Germany that Michael Bradley plays for.
Borussia Mongleddenbach (that was me trying without looking).
Borussia Monchengladbach (that's the actually team, not bad eh?).
Here's the meat of the story with some Belgian website as the source. Gooch's contract is up after this year and he's not renewing so as to test the market. Click to continue reading...

Dülp at the German blog Bolzplatz has an interesting post on Gladbach and the club's recent winter acquisitions. He's experiencing a crisis of faith in the club, seeing Meyer's recent moves as "Advocaat Reloaded." In other words, Meyer's calls for a complete rebuilding of the team and given carte blanche to do so [. Click to continue reading...

Dülp at the German blog Bolzplatz has an interesting post on Gladbach and the club's recent winter acquisitions. He's experiencing a crisis of faith in the club, seeing Meyer's recent moves as "Advocaat Reloaded." In other words, Meyer's calls for a complete rebuilding of the team and given carte blanche to do so [. Click to continue reading...

Dülp at the German blog Bolzplatz has an interesting post on Gladbach and the club's recent winter acquisitions. He's experiencing a crisis of faith in the club, seeing Meyer's recent moves as "Advocaat Reloaded." In other words, Meyer's calls for a complete rebuilding of the team and given carte blanche to do so [. Click to continue reading...

Borussia Mönchengladbach Rank: 18th Preseason prediction: 12th What was I thinking? Gladbach entered the Bundesliga having won the 2. Bundesliga with the most prolific offense and third-stingiest defense. They featured a versatile, if somewhat inexperienced side headlined by Germany's next can't miss prospect, Marko Marin. Click to continue reading...

Borussia Mönchengladbach Rank: 18th Preseason prediction: 12th What was I thinking? Gladbach entered the Bundesliga having won the 2. Bundesliga with the most prolific offense and third-stingiest defense. They featured a versatile, if somewhat inexperienced side headlined by Germany's next can't miss prospect, Marko Marin. Click to continue reading...

Borussia Mönchengladbach dreht weiter am Transfer-Rad. Nach den beiden Oldies Tomas Galasek (Ex-Clubberer) und Paul Stalteri (Ex-Bremer) hat das Gespann Meyer/Eberl nun den 22 Jahre alten, belgischen Nachwuchstorwart Logan Bailly aus Genk an den Niederrhein geholt. Die Hinrunden-Elf, der es spürbar an (Bundesliga-)Erfahrung mangelte, mit erfahrenen Akteuren zu ergänzen, macht Sinn. Click to continue reading...

Für die Fans von "Kulttrainer" Hans Meyer gibt es in dieser Saison wieder viel zu lachen. Der 66-Jährige poltert wie eh und je, lässt keine Gelegenheit aus, seine Schlagfertigkeit unter Beweis zu stellen und glänzt mit unkonventionellen und ironisch-frechen Antworten auf stereotype Journalistenfragen. Click to continue reading...

Rumors Abound! It's only December 2nd, but we can already smell the January transfer window and our first whiff comes courtesy of Oguchi Onyewu.  Seems like Marseille and Borussia Moenchengladbach are battling it out for the America centre back.  Goal.com tells us: "The offer from Marseille is reportedly around $6. Click to continue reading...

Michael B saw a full match from the central midfield yesterday and BMG walked away with a 2-0 victory over Arminia Bielefeld.  If you watch the highlights over at http://watchsocceronline.blogspot.com you'll be surprised that BMG won at all.  Bielefeld had the host of chances throughout the game and had a handful of astonishing misses from [. Click to continue reading...

Michael Bradley started today for Moenchengladbach against Wolfsburg and he did not perform well.  He saw little of the ball, and when he did have a chance to score he provided a poor finish.  To make matters worse, in the 54th minute Bradley's lazy marking on a set piece led to Wolfsburg's second goal as [. Click to continue reading...

0 - The number in Frankfurt's win column (still, and I'll keep on mentioning this until Frankfurt take note and do something about it) 5 - Difference in points between 1st (Hamburg) and 11th (Bayern). 6 - Number of goalscorers Hamburg and Werder Bremen have in the top 12 (ie, those who have scored at least 4 [. Click to continue reading...

Eigentlich konnte ich mir das ja nicht vorstellen ( Beweis ), aber Hans Meyer wird neuer Trainer des VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach. Hans Meyer, also doch. Gut. Zumindest auf Interviews und Pressekonferenzen können wir uns nun wieder freuen. Was genau dabei herumkommen wird, kann fraglich sein. Die Mannschaft ist ja aktuell nicht auf dem Zenit der Leistungsfähigkeit. Click to continue reading...

Heute spiel mein VfL gegen den anderen VfL, der ja eigentlich die Borussia ist, sich gerne auch mal die Fohlen nennt. Früher, als ich noch so richtig klein war, waren das immer ganz heiße Spiele. Das Ruhrstadion war voll, die Stimmung war grandios. Egal, wie sie heute spielen wollen, es wird nicht so sein wie ganz [. Click to continue reading...