Articles tagged with "international"
Weekly Dose 14.05.08
By Jan | May 14th, 2008I recently joined Angela over at the Germany World Cup Blog to do some Euro 2008 blogging. Daryl suggested we post more often now to build a readership ahead of the tournament. But I've already gone through the process with this blog, so why all t ...
Time for Frankfurt and Berlin to be on their best Behaviour
By Jan | May 13th, 2008The Bundesliga has won an additional UEFA Cup berth, following a draw including the seven fairest and wisest leagues in Europe. Now it's up to the DFL to decide which team in the Bundesliga honoured the Fair Play ideal the most and thus earns the hon ...
Matt Damon stars in The Ballack Identity
By Jan | May 8th, 2008I realised that I still had to reveal the identity of the kid on this picture. And it was indeed Matt Damon. I might be the last to notice it, but until I scanned YouTube for a video I could use to wrap a post around it, I wasn't aware of this striki ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: We See and Hear Everything
By Jan | May 3rd, 2008And then we blog about it. Borussia Dortmund's new jersey. (Borussia Dortmund) Borussia Dortmund's new money. (Borussia Dortmund) Miroslav Klose's new nose. (Bayern Offside) Hertha's old friends. (Hertha Offside) Willy Sagnol's new dance. ...
Cheer Up Bayern Fans and do the Willy Sagnol
By Jan | May 1st, 20081. Put your right hand to your left hip, then your left hand to your right hip. 2. Roll your hips 3 times, jump and clap your hands! 3. Put your right arm straight in front of you with your palm down. 4. Do the same with your left arm. 5. Flip ...
Snapshot: Achtung! Surrender. For you Fritz, the UEFA Cup 2008 is over.
By Jan | May 1st, 2008A welcome message to the Bayern players in German: "We don't wait for May 9th. The surrender has to happen today." The UEFA had the banners removed before the game kicked off. So Bayern can't argue that they just followed orders. But the Zenit fans g ...
Bayern's UEFA Cup Campaign in Numbers
By Jan | May 1st, 2008Bayern Munich invested roughly €80m in new players this season. The due return is yet another double, which they could have probably won without major investments, considering how the competition took turns self-destructing this year. And while Bay ...
Uncanny Resemblance: Jogi Löw and Tom Cruise
By Jan | April 28th, 2008Jogi Löw attended the match between Karlsruhe and Bremen disguising as Tom Cruise. What is even more worrying than that, is the current form of most of his designated Euro 2008 players. Per Mertesacker is probably playing his worst ever season. To ...
The other Getafe - Bayern Munich Highlight
By Jan | April 11th, 2008It takes 120 minutes and two last minute comebacks for this to happen. The third most hated player in the Bundesliga slaps the most hated player in the Bundesliga in the face to the music of REM. Once you get tired of the slap, turn your attention to ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Hungry for more
By Jan | April 5th, 2008More team blogs: Check out Anna's VfB Stuttgart Offside. (Stuttgart Offside) More power: The Offside is the 35th most powerful blog in the world. Beware. More team blogs: Angela is looking for more bloggers. (Bayern Offside) More shit than y ...
Classic Moment: Georg 'Katsche' Schwarzenbeck's late Equaliser against Atlético Madrid
By Jan | April 3rd, 2008It was the European Champions Cup (as in: Champions League) final in Brussel back in 1974. Bayern had reached the final for the first time. The match ended in a scoreless draw after 90 minutes and was forced into extra time. Then, current Spain coach ...
The German National Team sets off on an Alpine Adventure
By Jan | April 1st, 2008They take on the Matterhorn and they do it in silent movie fashion. The intertitles read "A difficult path lies ahead of you" and "But you won't take it alone". Also, props to Jens Lehmann who can save more than just penalties. A big global bran ...
Rudi Völler's Career in Goals
By Jan | April 1st, 2008...lasts 9 minutes and 54 seconds and spans two rock songs and such illustrious clubs as 1860 Munich, Werder Bremen, AS Roma, Olympique Marseille and Bayer Leverkusen. ...
5 Things we learned during the International Break
By Jan | March 28th, 20081. Hamburg are missing out. Just look at that photo. Though, Croatia didn't really impress in their friendly against Scotland (1-1) and neither Dortmund's Mladen Petric nor Bremen's Ivan Klasnic could put their names on the score sheet. I'm still a ...
Snapshot: Golski
By Jan | March 27th, 2008Lukas Podolski and Mario Gomez during Germany's 4-0 victory over Switzerland. Too bad there's only room for one of the two alongside Klose. Though, Podolski might have a chance to replace Schweinsteiger in Germany's midfield. Podolski's pass to Gomez ...
Beardwatch: Christoph Metzelder
By Jan | March 27th, 2008What is it about injuries and beards? Following Kevin Kuranyi's example, Metzelder used his injury-enforced time out to grow a proper beard and probably write a manifesto on the future of football. ...
Weekly Dose 27.3.08
By Jan | March 27th, 2008Good news for GolTV subscribers. (Yahoo! Biz) Bad news for people watching their football on German TV (i.e., please pity me). (Goal.com) A spectacular overhead goal by Jürgen Klinsmann. (Who Ate All The Pies) A spectacular rise and fall. ( ...
Odds and Ends
By salvatore | March 25th, 2008Six Lazio players have been called up to their respective national teams this week, and potentially, all of them will miss out on Saturday's meeting with battered and bruised South American giants Inter Milan. What this means is that despite our ...
Anyone interested in Baby Drogba?
By Dave Martinez | March 25th, 2008Apparently, Guy Kpene is a big DC fan favorite. They seem to think he has the stuff to develop into a good MLS player. And admittedly, I really don't know his game all that well. But the relevant part of all that? He has been cut by the Scum. ...
Weekly Dose 20.3.08
By Jan | March 20th, 2008Create your own fan choreo; via probek.net. (madin.jp) Michael Ballack promotes a good cause. (International Herald Tribune) Rafael van der Vaart will leave a trail of dirt soaked water behind, when he leaves Hamburg with a title. (Goal.com) Stan
In Numbers: Werder Bremen - Rangers
By Jan | March 14th, 2008According to Eurosport: Possession Werder Bremen 72,7% Rangers 27,3% Shots Werder Bremen 42 Rangers 4 Shots on Target Werder Bremen 10 Rangers 1 Corners Werder Bremen 18 Rangers 2 Accurate Passes Werder Bremen 512 Rangers 150 Well, you c
5 Conclusions from the UEFA Cup Round of 16
By Jan | March 13th, 20081. Bayern's bench-warmers like their warm benches. One of the benefits of Ottmar Hitzfeld's rotation policy is that someone like Jan Schlaudraff gets to play the odd 15 minutes now and then. It can help keep the players in the squad happy, because t ...
Weekly Dose 12.3.08
By Jan | March 12th, 2008It might look like another my league is bigger than yours article (or for girls: my league is prettier than yours), but Chris Williams makes a good point about why it is difficult to compare leagues based on the specific nature of a cup competition and
5 Things we learned in Europe this Week
By Jan | March 8th, 20081. It's the knockout rounds, stupid. Going by league and group stage performances, Tim Wiese clearly looks the better keeper than Manuel Neuer. Blunders against Valencia and Chelsea in the group stages and a couple more in the Bundesliga had taken Neuer
Manuel Neuer can save Penalties (and Mirko Slomka)
By Jan | March 5th, 2008It was an overall poor performance by Schalke, who were dominated by FC Porto and hardly managed to keep possession, especially once they tried to venture into Porto's half of the pitch. Given the turmoil surrounding Schalke and Mirko Slomka it proba ...
Quote of the Day: Bernd Schuster - The Important One
By Jan | March 4th, 2008"People forget that they were speaking to the coach of Real Madrid. It does not bother me what they call me, but I am important, very important, and at times they forget their manners." - Bernd Schuster (Real Madrid)
Weekly Dose 28.2.08
By Jan | February 28th, 2008Once Jogi Löw has announced his Euro 2008 squad, it'll be all downhill for Germany. (Germany Worldcupblog) The new DFB.TV video service presents Germany's way to the Euro 2008. The video ends after the second match against San Marino though. I wonde
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Upon Critical Analysis...
By Jan | February 23rd, 2008...the Bundesliga Offside team of bloggers came to the following conclusions this week: Abby concluded that Bielefeld does exist (potentially). (Hertha Offside) Jan concluded that the UEFA Intertoto Cup is a trophy every team should strive to win. (
Hamburg win UEFA Intertoto Cup
By Jan | February 23rd, 2008Good news for Huub Stevens and Rafael van der Vaart, who won't have to end their Hamburg days without any silverware. Hamburg secured their passage to this year's UEFA Cup through a cup competition, which had originally been conceived to give poor betting
Snapshot: Manuel Neuer strikes a Deal
By Jan | February 20th, 2008Here is Schalke's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after the Champions League match against FC Porto (1-0). Maybe he's completing a real estate deal.
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