Articles tagged with "backstory"
The Story of Germany's Reunification (as told by the Bundesliga)
By Jan | October 5th, 2009Saturday's Bundesliga action coincided with the 19th anniversary of Germany's reunification, which conveniently is also the country's national holiday - albeit without lethal fireworks or ...
The Money Game: Champions League vs Europa League
By Jan | September 15th, 2009We're heading into a new season of European football, which for most people really only means Champions League football. The big question ahead of every ...
The Evolution of Günter Netzer's Hair
By Jan | September 14th, 2009There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia ...
Sharuke 04: The Bundesliga in Japanese
By Jan | August 1st, 2008Yesterday, VfL Bochum, as in Shinji Ono ft. Bochum, played out a friendly against the Yokohama F. Marinos which ended 1-1. At the same time ...
Weekly Dose 30.07.08
By Jan | July 30th, 2008BILD launched an English version of its' webpage, which also includes a Bundesliga section. What can English-speaking Bundesliga fans expect? Well, nudity, nudity and even ...
Classic Goals: Jürgen Klinsmann vs Bayern Munich (1987)
By Jan | July 30th, 2008Today is Jürgen Klinsmann's 44th birthday, which is a good excuse to post a video of this particularly beautiful goal - which would eventually be ...
A Name to Remember: Marko Marin
By Jan | May 22nd, 2008This feature is long over due. Marko Marin is a 19 year old youngster playing for Borussia Mönchengladbach. He debuted in the Bundesliga late in ...
The Colour Pink
By Jan | May 9th, 2008Football in Germany has long been savoured as one of the last male refuges. As such anything pink has so far been exclusively reserved for ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
This Day in Football History
By Jan | March 4th, 2008March 4th, 1988. Exactly 20 years ago the DFB forbid then Bundesliga side FC Homburg to print the word London on their jerseys. It had ...
Weekly Dose 13.2.08
By Jan | February 13th, 2008Lothar Matthäus starring in a Gatorade commercial. (YouTube) The Athos, Portos and Aramis of the Bundesliga. Who'll be D'Artagnan then? (Reuters Soccer Blog) Once upon a time ...
FC St. Pauli: Non-established since 1910
By Jan | February 7th, 2008Today, second Bundesliga side FC St. Pauli announced a sponsoring deal with Orion, a mail order shop selling an assortment of erotic products. Orion will ...
50+1: The Club Ownership Issue in the Bundesliga
By Jan | December 13th, 2007All Bundesliga clubs are organised as eingetragener Verein (eV), which Wikipedia tells me would be similar to a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in Britain or a ...
Classic Snapshot: Frank Rijkaard and Rudi Völler
By Jan | December 12th, 2007A follow up to the Johan Cruijff post, as I thought I could just as well turn this day into Dutch-German football rivalry day at ...
Johan Cruijff's Farewell Match: Ajax Amsterdam 0-8 Bayern Munich
By Jan | December 12th, 2007Barcelona will host Stuttgart tonight in their last Champions League group match. Both teams have nothing to play for. Both manager's decided to shuffle their ...
Franz Beckenbauer's NASL Farewell Match
By Jan | September 1st, 2007Some users on YouTube have remarkable collections of vintage football videos, and I hope that their accounts aren't as much in danger of being shut ...
Hamburger SV: History Repeating
By Jan | August 17th, 2007In late 2004 Thomas Doll took over as new Hamburg coach. The club had a disastrous start into the new season and was sitting at ...
Like a Bottle empty
By Jan | June 25th, 2007The most famous press conference in Bundesliga history. The club: Bayern Munich. The season: 1997/1998. The occasion: Bayern Munich had lost against Schalke 04 two ...
Why no one wants to come to Wolfsburg
By Jan | June 13th, 2007Clubs like VfL Wolfsburg or Arminia Bielefeld are your typical Bundesliga wallflowers. They tend to spend most of their seasons in nowhereland. During their more ...
Bayern Munich 1.0: Good enough for 27 Years
By Jan | June 8th, 2007Uli Hoeness is general manager of Germany's richest football club and owns a sausage factory near Nuremberg. When he started his managing career in 1979 ...
The Mannschaft is not a Nickname
By Jan | June 7th, 2007At least as far as Germans are concerned. As sad and boring as it might be, we actually haven't been able to come up with ...
The Dietmar Hamann Bridge Phenomenon
By Jan | May 31st, 2007Back in 2005 the London Development Agency (LDA) and Transport for London ran a competition to name a footbridge that would lead from Wembley's town ...
Schalke 04's Trauma
By Jan | May 17th, 2007In light of the dramatic finish to this year's season I thought that it might be a good idea to go back in time a ...
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