Articles tagged with "international"
Jens Lehmann breaks German Goalkeeping Record
By Jan | February 6th, 2008A run of 531 minutes without conceding a goal means Jens Lehmann set up a new national team record, following Germany's 3-0 victory over Austria. ...
Weekly Dose 6.2.08
By Jan | February 6th, 2008They are making jokes about Bielefeld's (ex-)coach of the century (Power) Ernst Middendorp down in South Africa. (allAfrica.com) A puff-piece about Jogi Löw. (uefa.com) An article about ...
Germany's National Team takes the hard Way to Austria and Switzerland
By Jan | February 6th, 2008If you were the first team to qualify for the Euros and are a favourite with the bookies to win the whole thing, you need ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: The Transfer Circus left Town
By Jan | February 2nd, 2008They stayed in Berlin until the very last minute, due to popular demand by Dieter and Lulu, but eventually had to follow the law laid ...
Weekly Dose 30.1.08
By Jan | January 30th, 2008Now that the Bundesliga is back, it's time to revive the popular Weekly Dose feature; with "now that the Bundesliga is back" being a weak ...
In Numbers: Europe's Five Big Leagues at the Halfway Point of the Season
By Jan | January 24th, 2008The Bundesliga is still in hibernation, while all other big European leagues are already fully enjoying their second half of the season. It's a little ...
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 ...
The Best Coaches in the International Game
By Martha | January 11th, 2008The Germany-based International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) have a serious hard-on for numbers. The organization obsessively chronicles the history of football based ...
Snapshot: Not so quick, Jogi!
By Jan | January 11th, 2008Guus Hiddink, Jogi Löw and the World Cup. This photo would make sense if the World Cup possessed some magic power that puts the one ...
This just in: UEFA Cup and Champions League Draw
By Jan | December 21st, 2007The UEFA Cup and Champions League draw just took place. The lone Bundesliga representative Schalke 04 picked up FC Porto as their next opponent in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Champions League: Schalke 04... of all Teams
By Jan | December 11th, 2007Schalke were the least likely of all Bundesliga teams to advance. All credit for this achievement goes to Rosenborg Trondheim. Without their heroics against Valencia, ...
Clarification: Gerd Müller's and Filippo Inzaghi's European Goalscoring Record
By Jan | December 9th, 2007A few days ago Setanta reported that Filippo Inzaghi hadn't one-upped Gerd Müller's European goalscoring record yet. In fact he was still four goals short ...
Champions League Matchday 5: Late Bloomers
By Jan | November 30th, 2007Just as the Bundesliga clubs were all a little late to the Champions League party, I'm a little late with this short wrap up. But ...
Juventus 5 Palermo 0 - Recap: A Black and White Affair
By roberto | November 27th, 2007By now you've read the articles, heard the news, and seen the highlights. Juventus simply dismantled Palermo. So much so in fact, that Palermo's Head ...
Weekly Dose 25.11.07
By Jan | November 25th, 2007A new adidas commercial to go with the new German national team kit. (YouTube) Latest rumours: Jürgen Klinsmann and Bernd Schuster are linked to the England ...
Juventus vs Palermo: Previews & Contests
By roberto | November 22nd, 2007Fire it up you pirate-hookers, Serie A's back in town! Fire what up exactly? I'm not sure. Could be cigarettes, peyodie, an old smelly couch, ...
Euro 2008: Pick your deadliest Groups of Death
By Jan | November 22nd, 2007The Euro 2008 qualifiers are over, and all but one of the traditional European football powers booked their tickets to Austria and ...
Odd Couple: Per Mertesacker and Squidward Tentacles
By Jan | November 20th, 2007OK, I need to revise my original assumption regarding this Per Mertesacker photo. There was something else that drew me to it.
More Obscene Gestures from the Germany-Cyprus Match
By Jan | November 20th, 2007It seems the uncovering of Jens Lehmann's obscene gesture towards the crowd in Hannover was only the tip of the iceberg. Further study of the ...
International Break Wrap-Up: Confidence Boosts for Valdez, Podolski and Simunic
By Jan | November 19th, 2007International breaks are one of those unnecessary evils our poor club officials have to cope with these days. In the worst case players pick up ...
Mad Jens gives German Fans the Finger
By Jan | November 19th, 2007"It's nonsense. I've never done anything like that", says Jens Lehmann. It supposedly happened after one of Lehmann's risky trademark excursions outside of the box, ...
Champions League: Ifs and thens
By Jan | November 6th, 2007One half of this week's Champions League matchday is over, though since Stuttgart is basically dead already, I can start sketching out my favourite scenarios ...
Weekly Dose 06.11.07
By Jan | November 5th, 2007I should have written a short blog post that mentions and celebrates the fact that Germany will host the Women's World Cup in 2011. To ...
Great Duels: The German Goalkeeper vs. German the Goalkeeper
By Jan | November 5th, 2007Here's Valencia's goalkeeper and German international Timo Hildebrand and RCD Mallorca's goalkeeper German Lux - who is Argentine, and actually played for Argentina in the ...
LA Galaxy coach Yallop resigns, where's Klinsmann?
By Jan | November 5th, 2007I don't know whether this has made it into a rumour yet, but it was my first thought when I read the news that LA ...
Video: Jogi Löw is handed a Cowbell
By Jan | October 26th, 2007Here is a video of Jogi Löw, after Germany just suffered a humiliating defeat against the Czech Republic in their Euro 2008 qualifier two weeks ...
Weekly Dose 21.10.07
By Jan | October 21st, 2007Alliteration of the weekend: Hamburg hammer Stuttgart. (ESPN Soccernet) A video interview with Frankfurt's Ioannis Amanatidis. (DW Bundesliga Kick off!) For the Kids: the German national team ...
Closing Comments on Ashkan Dejagah
By Jan | October 20th, 2007I had previously blogged about the controversy surrounding Germany's U21 national team player Ashkan Dejagah, and it's time to conclude this story with the latest ...
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