Articles tagged with "luca toni"
Bayern Continue With The Touching Trend. Kinda.
By chris | May 15th, 2008It's been a touching week with the news that Oliver Kapo handed a boot boy the keys to a Mercedes because he didn't have a pair of shoes for him to take home, and Olof Mellberg having 3200 Aston Villa shirts custom made for the travelling fans to his ...
Bayern May Be Getting More Italian
By chris | May 13th, 2008Big changes were afoot in Germany last summer after their dismal and downright unacceptable campaign last year, at least by Bayern's "record champion" standards. Well big changes came, and with them a nice big trophy for being the best team in the Bu ...
He's a sly one... that Oliver Kahn.
By Angela | May 8th, 2008First he hates him. Criticizes him publicly and gets a suspension for it. Then he's singing his praises. Now he's calling for him to replace himself as Captain once he retires. Who in the world is Oliver Kahn talking about? You may have guessed ...
Snapshot: Say it with Flowers / Say it with Showers
By Jan | May 5th, 2008Kudos to Wolfsburg for the idea. Presenting a bouquet of flowers to beer showered footballers makes a great picture. Not to take anything away from the aforementioned beer showers... ...
Snapshot: Luca Toni Impersonator
By Jan | April 28th, 2008Franck Ribery put on his best Luca Toni impression on Sunday against Stuttgart and most of it was spot on. He bagged a brace - one of Luca Toni's latest habits. He emulated Luca's avete capito ("Do you get it?") goal celebration - pretending to uns ...
Weekly Dose 23.04.08
By Jan | April 23rd, 2008Addendum to last week's Weekly Dose: yet another Luca Toni puff piece. (International Herald Tribune) Those could be Werder's new kits. (1 2 3) Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach will come to the US. (NY Times) In ...
Weekly Dose 18.04.08
By Jan | April 18th, 2008Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich's renaissance more than any other player (scroll down and click on the numbers or on weiter to navigate through the slideshow); via probek.net. (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin) Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich's ren ...
All Hail El Geta
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008Before I do a preview of the Recreativo Huelva match, I think we should all give it up for what Getafe nearly pulled off yesterday in the UEFA Cup against Bayern Munich. After soon-to-be-Madridista Ruben de la Red was sent off in the 5th minute with ...
Luca Toni Defines Late Game Heroics
By chris | April 10th, 2008Getafe 3 - Bayern 3 What an amazing finish to an amazing game. Getafe deserves a standing ovation - aside from Robert Abbondanzieri - for a sensational performance down a man for 115 of 120 minutes. However, all their extra time heroics were cance ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 24
By Jan | March 18th, 20081. Luca Toni goes down easily. Call him a diver or an opportunist. When Bayern were trailing 1-0 at Cottbus, Luca Toni worked the slightest contact to his maximum advantage. He lost control of his body, fell to the ground and was awarded a questionable p
Euro Draws: Roma Gets ManYoo; Viola Get Path To You-Know-Who
By chris | March 14th, 2008• Roma has picked up Manchester United....again. Though the shit is being shoveled into the fan as we speak, with monkeys throwing chairs and people calling for the apocalypse. (Or just allegations of a fixed draw.) • Fiorentina have drawn Dutch bo
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. (
Caption this: Philipp Lahm and Luca Toni
By Jan | February 14th, 2008Luca Toni is not happy. Philipp Lahm's body language suggests remorse or shame. What happened?
Awaiting the Austrian Swisses, Italia vs Portugal Preview
By Marco | February 5th, 2008* Free Azzurrini fix right here Italia - Portogallo It’s international soccer time again! Italy will be facing Portugal in Zurich on Wednesday. It’ll be their first match since 2004. Both teams have qualified for the Swissaustrian Euro2008
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Two Weeks to go
By Jan | January 21st, 2008Or one and a half weeks, if you count in the DFB Cup. That is one and a half weeks full of winter break bridging blogging, which already brought you such classic posts as: News and notes. (Hamburg Offside) Out with one.. in with another? (Bayern Off
Giant News Roundup As Global Warming Really Kicks In
By Martha | January 8th, 2008•Holy crap, Alberto Aquilani made it through a match! Quick, wrap him and cotton wool and put him away until the weekend. •As Jeremy reported this morning, Cagliari are doing their level best to convince themselves (and anyone else who cares) that
Luca Toni at the Movies
By Jan | January 8th, 2008L'allenatore Nel Pallone 2 is the sequel to the 1984 hit(?) comedy L'allenatore Nel Pallone and will debut in cinemas around Italy on the 11th of January 2008. That's about all the info I could get from IMDb, or even all of the Internet, that wasn't ...
Milan's Signings Never Stick, And Their Keeper Still Sucks
By Martha | January 4th, 2008God, it just goes from bad to worse for Milan. First there was that David Suazo debacle last summer, when they totally signed a useful goal-scorer, only to have him turn around and join their city rivals for less, just because he'd said yes to them fi
Snapshot: This Photo isn't about Breastfeeding
By Jan | December 19th, 2007Though if it was, I would tell either Klose or Ribery to let Phillip Lahm have his turn. He seems to be missing out. Bayern Munich thrashed Aris Salonika 6-0 in the UEFA Cup tonight. They ended up winning their group and made up for their recent run o
Bayern draws against Braga
By Angela | November 30th, 2007I didn't get to see this whole match. I had to stream it because it wasn't shown in the US, but from what I seen of the first half, it seems that Bayern is probably lucky that they were able to hold Braga to a draw. It seemed that Braga was a lot more a
Azzurri: Totally Not Playing For a Tie, So Shut Up Already
By Martha | November 14th, 2007[All posts related to the death of Gabriele Sandri and its aftermath are collected here. The most recent is on top, and this one is being updated throughout the day as news develops.] Just like his (temporary) boss Roberto Donadoni insisted earlier thi
Weekly Dose 28.10.07
By Jan | October 28th, 2007One Too Many Awards: Werder Bremen's Diego has been voted Bundesliga player of the year, again. I thought he had already been voted last season's MVP, but you can never have enough awards. (Soccer Source) One Too Many Awards 2: Diego has also been no
UEFA Cup: Bayern Munich 2:0 Belenenses
By Angela | October 4th, 2007Picture of the match: The two goal scorers for Bayern Munich celebrate. I found the match a little boring to be honest.. until near the end.
Matchday 7: Oktoberfest in Munich
By Jan | September 29th, 2007There's too much football and too little time for me to write about it. So as I get to sit down to quickly recap the midweek action, matchday 8 is already underway. Schalke beat Berlin 1-0 yesterday, setting up a little series of three consecutive wins
Bayern - 4 Karlsruhe - 1
By Angela | September 23rd, 2007Bayern Munich took on Karlsruhe today and walked away with one more victory in the 4-1 defeat. I watched the match on GolTV and this is my recap and my thoughts about it. First Half Bayern came out strong and this was proven by a goal just five minut
Bayern Munich: Hitzfeld not happy despite win
By Angela | September 21st, 2007Despite Bayern's 1-0 win over Belenenses, Hitzfeld was left disappointed by his teams performance. The lone goal was scored by Luca Toni after catching a cross by Mark van Bommel. Belenenses coach Jorge Jesus thinks that they will be able to tak
Snapshot: Franck Ribery and Luca Toni
By Jan | September 21st, 2007Franck Ribery hugs Luca Toni who scored Bayern's only goal against Belenenses yesterday.
Bayern vs Belenenses
By Angela | September 21st, 2007At the end of the match, the score was 1-0 and Bayern walked away with a victory. About five minutes in, Marcell Jansen put a pass through to Toni, but his shot went over the bar. Bayern had a lot of missed chances. Podolski missed a couple, Altintop m
UEFA Cup Round Up
By Jan | September 20th, 2007Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 Uniao Leiria Leverkusen controlled a good portion of the match but were always vulnerable at the back and too generous with their chances up front. They were lucky that two 50:50 decisions by the referee went in their favour. The res
Luca Toni's press conference & Training
By Angela | September 19th, 2007I just wanted to present you all with some photos of today's press conference with the adorable Luca Toni and some training pictures from today's session as well. Press Conference September 18, 2007 Training Session September 18, 2007 Click
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