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 ...
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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]