Articles tagged with "werder bremen"
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 ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 33
By Jan | May 14th, 20081. Rostock and Duisburg return to the second division. They went from newly-promoted to newly-relegated over the course of one season. Duisburg lost against Bayern at home (2-3), despite staging a semi-remarkable comeback after Lukas Podolski had ma ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: With the Grace and Beauty of Tim Wiese
By Jan | May 11th, 2008That's how we did our blogging this week. Anna had a little present for Bayern Munich. (Stuttgart Offside) Stuttgart finally get a dedicated football stadium arena. (Stuttgart Offside) Tim Wiese is walking in Toni Schumacher's shadow. (Bunde ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32
By Jan | May 9th, 2008It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it's time to catch up with it in this double header edition. ...
Tim Wiese Kicks Ivica Olic in the Head. And Gets Away With It
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Oh yes he did. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGplCUlBCtw[/youtube] As spotted on the ever-excellent Bundesliga Offside, this is Werder Bremen keeper Tim Wiese's challenge on Hamburg striker Ivica Olic during the Bundesliga's northern ...
Quote of the Day: Tim Wiese doesn't give a Shit
By Jan | May 8th, 2008"Some referees probably give a red card for this, but I don't give a shit about it now. We won the game." Tim Wiese in his post match interview after a heated northern derby between Hamburg and Bremen ended 1-0 for the visitors. The ...
Weekly Dose 08.05.08
By Jan | May 8th, 2008Bayern Munich is the 5th most valuable football club in the world, followed by Schalke 04 in 10th, Dortmund in 15th, Hamburg in 17th and Bremen in 18th position. Don't take Forbes' data about the clubs too literally though. They will try and tell ...
Bring on Bremen, Redux
By Chris | May 6th, 2008Chalk one up for the success of avoiding predictions. Hamburg have the Northern Derby mid-week against arch rival Werder Bremen at the Bank (See how I've taken to calling the ground by some sort of nickname based on the ground's naming sponsor? It's ...
It is done
By Chris | May 6th, 2008We have our new manager. And he is Martin Jol, formerly with Spurs. Here are links to the story in Goal.com , Bild.de , and Hamburg Morgenpost. The announcement will be made publicly on Friday 9 May. (wait for it.) (wait for it.) ( ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 30
By Jan | April 29th, 20081. Only math stands in Bayern's way now. Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between th ...
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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind 19.04.08
By Jan | April 19th, 2008Welcome to a revised edition of my weekly blog internal handing out of link love. From now on you can check out the highlights of one week of Bundesliga blogging and try to guess who is the player/coach/manager on the picture on the right. Twice the ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 28
By Jan | April 15th, 20081. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches. Last week Nuremberg's match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg's travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremb ...
Werder Bremen go green
By Jan | April 14th, 2008A new-look Weserstadion to fit the club's colours is on its way and should be ready by the end of 2009. Werder had to cope with bitching/suing neighbours and exploding steel costs, which delayed and crippled their original plans for the Weserstadi ...
Three in a Row
By Abby | April 7th, 2008The thing about Werder Bremen is that, even now, you don't know which Werder Bremen will show up. Will it be the one that beat Arminia Bielefeld 8-1, or the one that lost to Duisburg? Majestic or tragic? Thrilling or mundane? You never know, with Bre ...
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. ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 26
By Jan | March 31st, 20081. Nothing. The teams at the top of the table couldn't win their games. The teams at the bottom of the table didn't lose their games. As such no team gained a lot of ground, nor did any team lose a lot of ground. And when the six best teams in the l ...
Classic Snapshot: Otto Rehagel and Rudi Völler
By Jan | March 31st, 2008Here are Werder Bremen's Otto Rehagel and Rudi Völler during a match against Nuremberg back in 1983. Rudi Völler was the man in the shadows and Shazback got it right with the very first comment. It was probably a bit misleading, given that Rudi V ...
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 ...
Brawl in the Bundesliga
By Chris | March 27th, 2008I was trying to come up with a WWE-esque title for this post, which really is about the chase for 2 of the 3 Champions League spots in the Bundesliga. I am not conceding the title to Bayern Munich by any stretch, but it will take a collapse of 1964 P ...
Caption This: Mario Gomez and Martin Harnik
By Jan | March 21st, 2008A little leftover from the Stuttgart-Bremen match.
Snapshot: Sir Markus Rosenberg
By Jan | March 18th, 2008Here is Werder Bremen's striker Markus Rosenberg receiving his knighthood from Sweden's Queen Silvia Sommerlath (just outside the frame), while the other Bremen players still try to come to terms with the defeat. The timing and setting could have surely b
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
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Welcome on Board
By Jan | March 16th, 2008Captain Bastian Schweinsteiger would like to welcome you on board of the Allianz Arena. Lift off to a different galaxy of football will be delayed due to unexpected problems with Anderlecht and Cottbus. Bastian would like to specifically welcome... Mi
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
Rangers and Sporting move on to quarters
By Ian Rose | March 13th, 2008With a fantastic individual performance by keeper Allan McGregor, Rangers have moved on to the UEFA Cup quarterfinals over Werder Bremen 2-1 on aggregate. A late goal in Lisbon for Sporting CP also put them over a toothless Bolton 2-1. So, the last ei
Rangers through to UEFA Cup quarters
By Ian Rose | March 13th, 2008Allan McGregor put in an absolutely stellar performance in today's match with Werder Bremen, letting a single goal from Diego through, and stopping a Werder offensive onslaught that took 35 shots and 18 corners. Rangers took four shots. Four. It's rare
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
This Day in Football History
By Jan | March 11th, 2008March 11th, 2007. It was a Saturday and Bayern played at home against Werder Bremen. In the sixth minute Lukas Podolski opened the scoring with a simple tap-in from a Mark van Bommel cross. Markus Rosenberg equalised for Bremen in the 66th minute. It ...
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