Bundesliga Style April Fools

New Bavar­ian National Team Captain?

If you thought that Pranks, Jokes and Shenani­gans on April Fools Day are to be expected you are cor­rect. Even the some­times more reserved Ger­mans par­tic­i­pate in this day with fer­vor and the Ger­man Soc­cer press is no exception.

Here are some of the things to be found in the press in Ger­many today:

The  Berliner-kurier has a story on Jogi Löw mak­ing Hertha’s Keeper Jaroslav Drobny the new Ger­man Nr 1 in goal.

The Frank­furter All­ge­meine has this story  about the State of Bay­ern want­ing to qual­ify for the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships 2012. Ques­tion is who will be the coach for this team, Lothar or Markus?

The Web­site comunio.de has a report of Kevin Kuranyi being spot­ted at the Air­port in Cardiff, Wales. When asked what he was doing there he said “I am going to sup­port the team from the stands and since Mario Gomez can’t seem to score a goal, maybe I will get another chance.”

The Fanzine 11 Fre­unde has this story on Ste­fan Effen­berg being named the new Man­ager at Schalke. His com­ment: “The sit­u­a­tion is hope­less, but not critical.”

Along the same lines the Weltfussball.de site has this report  about the duo of Mirko Slomka and Rudi Assauer mak­ing a shock return to Schalke.

Mario Basler is get­ting a street named after him in Trier accord­ing to an arti­cle that appeared this morning. In the report it is said the Bar Own­ers and Cig­a­rette Dis­trib­u­tors have lob­bied the City of Trier since last Sep­tem­ber to make this happen.

Not to be out­done, Felix Mag­ath is also get­ting a street named in his honor accord­ing to to the aller-zeitung and the VW Orches­tra will be there to play for him. Rumor has it that if Wolfs­burg win the Cham­pi­onship that he will get a statue or VW will name a car after him.

The Hes­sis­cher Rund­funk on their online site is report­ing that a Turk­ish busi­ness man wants to repli­cate the Hof­fen­heim expe­ri­ence with the sub­urbs own SG 01 Höchst.

And in a spe­cial report the abendzeitung has the scoop that FC Bay­ern is going to pay 1860 the amount of 18.6 Mil­lion Euros in reverse Rent to get them out of the Allianz Arena. To make up the amount paid to the Blues, Boris Becker will have a monthly TV Poker Show broad­cast live from the Arena.

There is how­ever no truth to the rumor that all blog­ging activ­i­ties about the Bun­desliga will be stopped in the event that Hertha actu­ally win the Championship.