VfB Stuttgart

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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1st Schalke What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the off­spring. What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end. What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the […]

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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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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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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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The fix­tures for the open­ing day of the 2008/2009 Bun­desliga sea­son have been announced. All of these matches will be played on Sat­ur­day, August 16: FC Bay­ern v Ham­burg Schalke v Han­nover Wolfs­burg v Cologne Bayer Lev­erkusen v Borus­sia Dort­mund Ein­tra­cht Frank­furt v Hertha Berlin Karl­sruhe v Bochum Energie Cot­tbus v Hof­fen­heim Arminia Biele­feld v […]

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Season Finale

by Mark on May 18, 2008 · 0 comments

The 45th sea­son of the Bun­desliga has come to an end with com­par­a­tively lit­tle drama or the­atrics. Bay­ern all but guar­an­teed itself the title with a busy sum­mer in the trans­fer mar­ket, spend­ing 70 mil­lion Euros on Luca Toni (the league’s top scorer), Franck Ribery (world class play­maker) and the rest. While this invest­ment was […]

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