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Fol­low­ing a busy sea­son, Raphael Honig­stein of The Guardian and Footbo was kind enough to talk with me and address a few ques­tions I had about the end of the sea­son and the start to the silly sea­son. Which player(s) sur­prised you the most this sea­son?  a) Mis­i­movic. We knew he could play foot­ball, but […]

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Armin Veh was announced as Wolfsburg’s new man­ager after their title cel­e­bra­tions. The ex-Stuttgart man­ager will now try and repli­cate his 2008 Cham­pi­ons League form. It should be eas­ier with the immi­nent loss of Dzeko and Mis­i­movic. Mario Gomez became the most expen­sive player in Bun­desliga his­tory, swap­ping Stuttgart red for Bay­ern red. Bay­ern paid […]

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For us fans of Ger­man foot­ball it was a sad night, but for us foot­ball fans, it wasn’t. The Ukraine won their first Euro­pean title with a team that earned it’s vic­tory. And they were an attrac­tive team to watch with Srna, Luiz Adri­ano, the Rat and Ilsinho mak­ing the core of a very entertaining […]

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While yesterday’s antics by Chelsea and the drama in dying min­utes get all the cov­er­age, today’s semi-final matchup between Werder Bre­men and Ham­burg pro­vided sig­nif­i­cantly more bang for the buck, and a real game to boot. And while there were a few ques­tion­able calls, the only Ger­man to cover him­self in shame, this week, was […]

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It has been an inter­est­ing week in rumors. First the man­agers! Hof­fen­heim will say good­bye to Ralf Rang­nick because he wants to spend money this sum­mer. They will then say hello to Jur­gen Klins­mann, who is the epit­ome of fru­gal­ity. After all, he only forced Bay­ern to rebuild it’s train­ing facil­ity. Mean­while the pos­ses­sors of […]

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Here is this week’s round up of trans­fer rumors. Of course the big news has been about Klinsmann’s replace­ment. Wenger is prob­a­bly off the table after Rummenigge’s pleas­ant com­ments about the Arse­nal man­ager, but the list of manager’s linked is fairly absurd: Jol, Ancelotti, Van Gaal, Hid­dink, Gerets, Hitzfeld, Veh, Mancini, Schus­ter, Sven and Scolari. […]

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Werder Bre­men went a long way to secur­ing a spot in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup with a 3–1 vic­tory over Udi­nese tonight. Two bril­liant goals by Diego and a third by Pizarro were enough to see off the Ital­ian side and give the Green-Whites a hearty lead head­ing to Udine next week. There would […]

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