Ligue 1

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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July 1st saw the for­mal begin­nings of five coaches’ tenures at the helms of Bun­desliga clubs. Over the next sev­eral weeks every Thurs­day we’ll intro­duce these men to you. Our series of pro­files begins with Bay­ern München’s Jür­gen Klins­mann, striker par excel­lence and noted div­ing enthu­si­ast. We detail the man, his plan, his chal­lenges, and […]

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Foot­ball is not always a beau­ti­ful game; some­times book­ings are nec­es­sary. This sea­son was no dif­fer­ent in Ger­many, even if sta­tis­ti­cally player dis­ci­pline was com­par­a­tively bet­ter than in the past sev­eral sea­sons. While goal scor­ers have the Tor­jägerkanone (awarded by the mag­a­zine kicker) to shoot for, no com­pa­ra­ble tro­phy exists for the Bundesliga’s best/worst troublemakers. […]

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