Articles tagged with "international"
Classic Duel: Jan Koller vs Philipp Lahm
By Jan | October 19th, 2007Jan Koller and Philipp Lahm fight for the ball, during the Euro 2008 qualifying match between the Czech Republic and Germany (1-2) back in March.
International Break Wrap-Up
By Jan | October 19th, 2007I used the international break to play the lazy card and take the week off. Maybe I would have felt the urge to blog if ...
Weekly Dose 13.10.07
By Jan | October 13th, 2007Jogi Löw attempts the impossible. (Who Ate All the Pies) Jens Lehmann attempts the impossible, if he fails he might still join Manchester City in the ...
National Team: Off the Pitch Acting Skills Shootout sorted by Position
By Jan | October 13th, 2007It's fair to expect any player who deems himself good enough to play football for a living, to come with a minimum set of acting ...
Hypothetical: Is Bayern Munich better than the German National Team?
By Jan | October 11th, 2007It's happy days for Bayern Munich's management, whose expensively upgraded squad is currently dominating the Bundesliga at will. They are actually so happy, that they ...
Political or Personal: Ashkahn Dejagah's Refusal to play against Israel
By Jan | October 10th, 2007There's a story that has quickly generated a lot of buzz in Germany. VfL Wolfsburg's Ashkahn Dejagah was originally nominated by U21 coach Dieter Eilts ...
Late Laurels: Berti Vogts gets some Credit for Scotland's Resurgence
By Jan | October 10th, 2007Berti Vogts' reign as Scottish national team coach between 2002 and 2004 wasn't particularly successful, filled with poor performances and a failed attempt to qualify ...
Weekly Dose 09.10.07
By Jan | October 8th, 2007Why Jürgen Klinsmann enjoys life in California. (Reuters Soccer Blog) Why Jürgen Klinsmann didn't take the Chelsea job and why he isn't desperately looking for a ...
Hamburg vs Litex Lovech Post Match Ringtone Moment
By Jan | October 5th, 2007I take some enjoyment from listening to ring tones only when they interrupt a meeting, marriage or a UEFA Cup press conference. Here is Litex ...
European Misery: Werder Bremen makes it 5 Defeats from 6 Matches for the Bundesliga
By Jan | October 3rd, 2007Werder Bremen 1 - 3 Olympiakos Piräus If you take a very cautious look at the opponents, the Bundesliga had to face so far, you could ...
Snapshot: Messi Hair
By Jan | October 3rd, 2007Here's Lionel Messi fighting for the ball against Fernando Meira during Stuttgart's Champions League match against Barcelona yesterday. Barcelona won the match 2-0. I only ...
Women's World Cup Final: Germany 2-0 Brazil
By Jan | September 30th, 2007That was a hard fought victory for the women's national team. The first fifteen to twenty minutes saw chances and possession shared evenly among the two ...
Women's World Cup Semi-Finals: Germany 3-0 Norway, USA 0-4 Brazil
By Jan | September 27th, 2007Germany reached the final of this year's Women's World Cup and again the final scoreline is a bit misleading. The story of this match mirrored ...
Women's World Cup: On to the Semis
By Jan | September 24th, 2007It was quarter final time in China this weekend. Germany played against North Korea on Saturday and, for a change, I managed to watch the ...
Weekly Dose 22.09.07
By Jan | September 22nd, 2007The German national team is the fourth best football team in the world according to this month's FIFA World Ranking. (FIFA.com) The Bundesliga is the fourth ...
Women's World Cup: From China with Love
By Jan | September 21st, 2007The FIFA Women's World Cup in China is in the difficult position, where it has to overcome negative prejudices towards women's football as well as ...
It's a Shame we're not in the Champions League
By Jan | September 20th, 2007Says Luca Toni and says Uli Hoeneß. And it's probably old habits that make Bayern Munich speak more about the Champions League than the competition ...
Champions League: Previews
By Jan | September 18th, 2007The new Champions League season (if you exclude all the qualifying matches) is less than an hour away and the Bundesliga clubs will start their ...
Weekly Dose 16.09.07
By Jan | September 16th, 2007I had no time to do any blogging the past couple of days, so I decided to cover some of the football that I missed ...
Snapshot: Lukas Podolski's New Bicycle
By Jan | September 11th, 2007adidas sponsored Chelsea denied adidas sponsored Michael Ballack to take part in a film shoot for a commercial with the adidas sponsored German national team, ...
Women's Football: Glass Half Empty / Half Full Attitudes
By Jan | September 11th, 2007When it comes to women's football, I'm on the level of an eight year old child. To be more precise, like when I was eight ...
A Tale of Two Broadcasts: Wales 0-2 Germany
By Jan | September 10th, 2007Germany beat Wales quite easily and effortlessly in Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier and moved 8 points clear of third placed Ireland. Mathematically there is still ...
Weekly Dose 08.09.07
By Jan | September 8th, 2007Some pieces for the puzzle that is Michael Ballack's non-nomination for the Champions League group stage. (Guardian sportblog) Michael Ballack speaks English and gets dubbed over ...
Hair: Bastian Schweinsteiger
By Jan | September 5th, 2007Just because it didn't work for Beckham doesn't mean that Schweinsteiger should be denied his own bleach blonde experiment. He will captain the German national ...
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 ...
Champions League: Bundesliga Clubs Favourites to advance
By Jan | August 30th, 2007According to The Offside's godfather Bob that is. The draw for the Champions League group stage took place today, before I could even get the ...
Work out with Jens Lehmann
By Jan | August 25th, 2007How Jens prepared himself for the match against England last Wednesday.And on a sad note: an achilles injury rules Jens out of Arsenal action for ...
Weekly Dose: Old Foes
By Jan | August 25th, 2007Lots of England - Germany related things to read this time. They don't make Germany teams like they used to (The Independent) 11 Germans the English invited ...
Fan Made: Thank You for 2006
By Jan | August 24th, 2007Danke für 2006 - Thank you for 2006. England fans pay tribute to last years World Cup hosts prior to the friendly between England and ...
Snapshot: Matryoshka Doll
By Jan | August 23rd, 2007Michael Owen - Arne Friedrich - Per Mertesacker. England 1 - Germany 2.
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