Bundesliga Fanatic

In the early to late 00‘s and recently up until this summer Werder Bremen was a hot bed for top Bundesliga talent. Miroslav Klose, Per Mertesacker, Mesut Özil, Claudio Pizarro, Marco Marin and to a lesser extent players like Naldo and Hugo Almeida led Bremen to varied amounts of success in the past decade. Winning [...]

bwin gives football fans the ultimate experience with Bayern Munich Ever wondered what goes on backstage at one of the world’s top football clubs? bwin, Europe’s largest sportsbook, is giving fans the chance to find out with its newest “Club of Champions” promotion as they send two lucky winners to hang out with Bayern Munich’s [...]

Bayer Leverkusen 2-3 Borussia Dortmund Dortmund move ahead of Leverkusen, edging a five goal thriller. Nurnberg 2-1 Borussia Monchengladbach Nurnberg’s first success under Wiesinger helps ease relegation woes. Hamburg 0-2 Eintracht Frankfurt Debut double from Lakic continues Frankfurt’s Champions League push. Mainz 0-3 Bayern Munich Bayern march on to Bundesliga glory with comfortable win. Fortuna [...]

With their team in freefall, injuries rampant and one of the few on-form players headed for England, Schalke 04 fans have been praying for some good news to come out of the winter transfer window. Well, the news has come and, as one fan put it, it’s a bit ‘underwhelming.’ Let’s start with the somewhat [...]

With the recent signings of former American collegiate players Paolo DelPiccolo by Eintracht Frankfurt and Parker Walsh to the Karlsruher SC first team, along with FC Augsburg inking MLS and Danish SuperLiga veteran Michael Parkhurst in December, the number of Americans playing professionally in Germany continues to grow.  There were already fifteen Americans earned their living [...]

After reaching the dizzying heights of the Champions League last season, Gladbach started their Bundesliga campaign in nervy fashion this year, accruing just one win in their opening six Bundesliga games. Despite the bad start however Gladbach lie 8th in the Bundesliga going into the winter break level on points with Stuttgart and Schalke and [...]

The phone call imagined, earlier this week.. Louis van Gaal:  Hallo, Jogi?  This is Louie. Jogi Löw:  Ahhh, Louie, how are you? LvG:  Fine, fine.  We have that friendly Wednesday evening, you know…. JL:  Yes, I do recall.  A friendly….we hate each other (chuckles) LvG:  Yes we do (chuckles).  The pressure is on here, though, [...]

Rarely does a domestic league exhibit such startling brilliance as this past week involving Bundesliga clubs.  While Fanatic readers are most likely well aware of the annual Bundesliga lead among the top five European leagues in attendance and goal-scoring, for the uninitiated and those still holding onto musty thoughts that Serie A, La Liga and [...]

Sports rivalries are funny things. Disdain for a particular team and its fan base is the yang to the yin of unconditional love a fan devotes to his or her favorite teams and athletes. Having grown up completely ignorant of the sport, much less of the Bundesliga and its teams, I went to my first-ever [...]

Superheroes of FC Hollywood: Part One Bayern Munich, the most successful club in Germany and one of the elite forces in Europe is the hub of some of the greatest players football has ever seen. During the 1990’s the club was nicknamed as FC Hollywood due to some of the players off the pitch stories. [...]