The Offside 29 September @ 08:00 PM EST
Something to read while you enjoy Pablo Hernandez's juggletastic goal for Valencia vs Atletico
Madrid this weekend: The Irish national team's new stadium. Eventually. (Pitch Invasion) Should MLS
table-toppers be allowed to choose their playoff victims? (Prost Amerika Soccer) A Favre farewell
(Hertha Berlin Offside) Football beats politics in Germany (BallSpiel) Brazil: The Next Generation
(Brazil WCB) Is FIFA holding Africa [.
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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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The Offside 27 September @ 08:33 PM EST
As we head towards October, at the end of the week at hand, the weather in the northern hemisphere
gets cooler but the coaching seats hotter. No longer can underperforming look to early season
disconnects, jitters, weakened legs and evolving squads as substitutes for results. So while we
head towards firing season, a look at [.
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The Offside 05 June @ 05:30 PM EST
Stuff to read while you watch the fluffy Ronaldo turn back the showboating clock.... Kaka is just
the beginning of a revolution. (SoccerLens) Along with the arrival of lots and lots of lira in
Milan. (Serie Aaaaargh!) Six non-transfers which would've changed history. (guardian) Corinthians
fan dies during riots; fellow fans retaliate by setting Vasco bus afire.
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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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Torlaune.de 17 April @ 01:20 PM EST
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Das empfiehlt Calli dem Schalker Stürmer Kevin Kurányi im Gespräch mit Peter Peters, seines
Zeichens Geschäftsführer von Schalke 04. Ansonsten hat Calli wenig an Kevin Kurányi auszusetzen,
der kämpft, kratzt und beißt und jede Saison für 10-15 Tore gut ist. Von daher kann er die
Schalker Fans und deren Erwartungshaltung nicht verstehen und ist davon zurecht enttäuscht.
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Torlaune.de 17 April @ 01:20 PM EST
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Das empfiehlt Calli dem Schalker Stürmer Kevin Kurányi im Gespräch mit Peter Peters, seines
Zeichens Geschäftsführer von Schalke 04. Ansonsten hat Calli wenig an Kevin Kurányi auszusetzen,
der kämpft, kratzt und beißt und jede Saison für 10-15 Tore gut ist. Von daher kann er die
Schalker Fans und deren Erwartungshaltung nicht verstehen und ist davon zurecht enttäuscht.
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Last Thursday, Lucien Favre suspended his right winger Patrick Ebert indefinitely. While the reason
for the suspension is that Ebert was out until 3 AM celebrating his birthday, which breaks team
curfew rules; there is a bigger story is that during his drunken walk home (points for walking),
there is every indication that Ebert [.
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Statistics haven't been too kind to Hertha this season. Wether you look at possession, shots on
target or one-on-one situations - all the bragging rights relevant numbers usually favored Hertha's
opposition once the match was over. Numbers which reinforced the believe that this team was riding
it's luck and robbing others of their well deserved [.
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Arminia Bielefeld gained a point and a little breathing room in their fight to stay up this year.
Things didn't start brightly when their defenders fell asleep and allowed Andriy Voronin to ghost
onto a ball delivered by keeper Jaroslav Drobny and slot home a 13′ lead. They leveled in the
[.
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Arminia Bielefeld gained a point and a little breathing room in their fight to stay up this year.
Things didn't start brightly when their defenders fell asleep and allowed Andriy Voronin to ghost
onto a ball delivered by keeper Jaroslav Drobny and slot home a 13′ lead. They leveled in the
[.
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The third goal was fantastic. The fourth too. And the second as well. Lucien Favre's stream of
consciousness in the wake of Hertha's 4:0 victory over Karlsruhe. You can scrutinize the
validity/bias of this statement in the disappointingly chronologic video below.
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"Is this too early? I wish everyone a merry Christmas." Lucien Favre was in a festive
mood when he capped off his short speech at Hertha's annual general meeting on Monday. It may well
have been too early, but Hertha are currently enjoying such a unique moment of all around good
news, performances and publicity, that you [.
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The Offside 14 October @ 10:00 PM EST
Stuff to read while you try to pay for your Big Mac with weed....... The return of a golden
Slovenia. (Guardian Unlimited) A look back on German sports sponsorship. (ESPN) The best England XI
that couldn't get any love. (The Spoiler) Bulgarian VP doesn't seem to think their Prem players are
up to snuff.
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The Deutsche Presse Agentur released a poll yesterday about predictions for the upcoming season.
Bayern Munich was the unanimous favorite of Bundesliga coaches to repeat as champions. The most
common reason given was the quality of Jürgen Klinsmann's squad. What follows is a hasty
translation of what each of the 18 gaffers [.
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