Bundesliga Fanatic Podcast Episode 94: Match Day 34 Reviewed

by Niklas Wildhagen

Aleix Gwilliam and Niklas Wildhagen take a look at the ins and outs of match day 34. Segment 1: What on earth was going on in Dortmund? Should Schmelzer’s goal ...

Team of the Week – Match Day 34

by Cristian Nyari

The 2012/13 finale proved to be one of the most dramatic in recent memory.  Schalke beat Freiburg to secure the final Champions League spot while Hoffenheim, Augsburg and Fortuna Düsseldorf ...

Hoffenheim’s Miracle in Dortmund and Augsburg’s Great Escape

by Cristian Nyari

Madness.  Absolute madness.  That is the only way to describe the final matchday of the 2012/13 Bundesliga season.  Hoffenheim pulled off one of the great comebacks in Bundesliga history by ...

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Bayern München in European Cup Finals – Gallery

by Cristian Nyari

On Saturday, May 25th, Bayern München have a chance to finally add ...

The collapse of Fortuna Düsseldorf: What went wrong?

by Chase Ruttig

Fortuna Düsseldorf began the season as one of the darlings of the ...

Freak goal and moment of Draxler brilliance wreck Freiburg’s Champions League dream

by Aleix Gwilliam

So near but yet so far. Freiburg’s dream of playing Champions League ...

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“Only God Can Judge Me” – The Tumultuous Tale of Schalke’s Jermaine Jones

by Adrian Sertl

As his Schalke side prepare to meet Freiburg on the final matchday of the season, where a single point should be enough to secure fourth place in the table and the valuable Champions League qualification spot, Jermaine Jones stands at a crossroads in his career.  In a recent article in Bild Jones hinted at a [...]

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#PundesligaFridays presents: #BundesligaMovies

by Archie Rhind-Tutt

From the heart of Matthias BollyWood, things got a little FootKroose on Friday afternoon as people’s #BundesligaMovies hit Twitter. Now some were conceivable… Ori Cooper@CoopSport Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Hummels #bundesligamovies @archiert1 @Pundesliga @dan_bu Fri, May 17 2013 08:16:59 ReplyRetweetFavorite Some didn’t quite stick to the brief… Tom Kluger@tomkluger25 #bundesligamovies An Inconvenient Huth Fri, [...]

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Record-breaking Bayern Munich tune up for Champions League final

by Mark Lovell

Bayern Munich warmed up for the forthcoming Champions League final with a breath-taking 4-3 win against Borussia Monchengladbach. An impressive comeback win preserved Bayern’s unbeaten away record, sealing a remarkable 29th win in 34 outings. Sensationally, this leaves Bayern with just one defeat over the Bundesliga campaign. Treble-seeking coach Jupp Heynckes selected a full-strength side [...]

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Week 34: The Relegation Playoff Storming of the Castle

by Randall Hauk

It’s hard to put too much of a shine on this final week in the second league. Hertha Berlin are champions and on their way to the Bundesliga with fellow Aufsteiger Braunschweig. Kaiserslautern are locked into third and will play for the right to join the other two clubs in the top flight. Jahn Regensburg and Sandhausen [...]

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The Final Countdown….

by Alex Chaffer

So it’s here, the moment we’ve all been dreading since the first whistle blew back in August. The final matchday of the Bundesliga is upon us with some interesting things still to be sorted out. Many teams know where they’re heading next season and are playing for nothing on Saturday. Borussia Mönchengladbach, looking to finish in [...]

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Bundesliga Betting Preview Matchday 34

by Aleix Gwilliam

Finally it has arrived, the most highly-awaited and yet dreaded matchday of the season, the last Bundesliga day for three months that may leave us ecstatic, distraught, excited and which might also make us a little bit of money. Recent events have shown that logic hasn’t played a huge part in the results but we [...]

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A Rejuvenation in North London? Rating Lukas Podolski’s First Season Abroad with the Gunners

by Chase Ruttig

2011/12 was a trying campaign for Lukas Podolski: his much-loved FC Köln side were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga amidst some awful scenes in the club’s finale. Despite scoring 18 goals for the club, Podolski – once again – was forced to make a move from his first club, this time abroad to the EPL [...]

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Löw Announces Squad for US Trip

by Cristian Nyari

German national team coach Joachim Löw unveiled the squad that will make the trip to the United States to play friendlies with the US national team on June 2nd and Ecuador on May 29th. Four players will make their national team debut.  Freiburg’s Max Kruse, Mainz’s Nicolai Müller and Bayer Leverkusen pair Philipp Wollscheid and [...]

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Thank you, Thomas

by Niklas Wildhagen

A few personal observations about Thomas Schaaf’s incredible time at Werder Bremen. I’ve been a fan of Werder Bremen ever since I saw them on the television for the first time in the beginning of the 90s. A great team marshalled by the master tactician Otto Rehhagel, a team consisting of greats like Rune Bratseth, [...]

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Thomas Schaaf Leaves Werder Bremen, the End of an Era

by Cristian Nyari

Like German sports publication kicker wrote, it truly is the end of an institution.  Next to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, no coach has been in charge at a club in the big leagues as long as Schaaf and after 14 years at the club, he and Bremen have decided on mutual consent. After a [...]

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