Germany

If you live in South Florida or if you’ll be here dur­ing the World Cup tour­na­ment, you can watch all of the Ger­many World Cup games live at Wowies Sports Grill located in Boca Raton, Florida (except the 7:30am games). Wowies fea­tures 31 big screen TVs, HD broad­casts, excel­lent food, three full-liquor bars and service […]

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This after­noon marks the open­ing game of the 2010 World Cup for Ger­many as they face a phys­i­cally strong Aus­tralia side. Before, dur­ing or after the match, feel free to share your opin­ions and obser­va­tions about the big match here. Start­ing line-ups are: Ger­many: Neuer — Lahm, Merte­sacker, Friedrich, Bad­stu­ber — Khedira, Schwe­in­steiger — Podol­ski, Ozil, […]

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With this weeks 4–0 drub­bing of Eng­land u21s by the Ger­man u21s, Die Mannschaft com­pleted a hat-trick of youth level Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships (win­ning the u17, u19, and u21 tour­na­ments). Such suc­cess indi­cates that the future of the Bun­desliga is bright, and that while the Serie A begins a period of decline, the Pre­mier League is […]

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Another Germany-Wales match, another game too close for com­fort for die National­mannschaft. The all-time series record stands at 8 wins for Ger­many, 2 for Wales and 6 draws between them. I don’t know what it is with the Welsh, but they punch above their weight when play­ing against Bal­lack and co. Ger­many needed all my […]

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As you may know for­mer long­time Ger­many and Bay­ern no. 1 Oliver Kahn had his tes­ti­mo­nial exactly a week ago in Munich. The match, between Bay­ern and Ger­many, ended 1–1, but the score was less impor­tant than the man hon­ored that night. His accom­plish­ments are legion and well-known, includ­ing, per­haps most impres­sively, being the only […]

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1. Par­ity Okay, let’s not kid our­selves.  Not any team can win the Bun­desliga.  But since the incep­tion of the EPL in 1991, four teams have won the title: United, Black­burn, Chelsea and Arse­nal, but United has won 11 of those titles.  In that same span, five teams have won the title in Ger­many: Kaiserslautern, […]

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The new Bun­desliga sea­son is just days away, so Bun­desliga Talk writ­ers Mark Moll and Dou­ble Pivot decided to inter­view one of the pre­em­i­nent writ­ers and authors on the topic of Ger­man soc­cer, Raphael Honig­stein. Many read­ers may know Honig­stein best from his appear­ances on the Foot­ball Weekly Pod­cast by The Guardian. Here’s the transcript […]

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