Thomas Schaaf

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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Edin Dzeko Against Cot­tbus 1. Bayer Lev­erkusen The sub­ti­tle to their sea­son should be “how we got to the top with a crap defense”. They con­ceded goals by a mis­di­rect from the wall on a free kick, allow­ing Tim Sebas­t­ian to waltz freely on another and let­ting 5’9 Iashvilli out­jump a defender. If it weren’t […]

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Gladbach’s vic­tory over the stalwart’s of the league, Werder Bre­men, gave us a glimpse at a team that has been revi­tal­ized under Jos Luhukay and Chris­t­ian Ziege, and could well be in for a bright future. The addi­tion of Michael Bradley added another young inter­na­tional the next day. So what is it about Glad­bach? Is […]

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The Deutsche Presse Agen­tur released a poll yes­ter­day about pre­dic­tions for the upcom­ing sea­son. Bay­ern Munich was the unan­i­mous favorite of Bun­desliga coaches to repeat as cham­pi­ons. The most com­mon rea­son given was the qual­ity of Jür­gen Klinsmann’s squad. What fol­lows is a hasty trans­la­tion of what each of the 18 gaffers had to say […]

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