Bundesliga Fanatic

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 [...]

As Sven Ulreich stepped onto the pitch of the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Saturday afternoon, a record was broken. Since August 2010, the Swabian shot-stopper hasn’t missed a single minute of Bundesliga action. The young German has in fact featured in all of Stuttgart’s last  100 Bundesliga matches. Against Greuther Fürth he overtook the previous record [...]

Ich weiß nicht, ob Magath die Titanic gerettet hätte, aber wenigstens wären alle Überlebenden sehr fit gewesen (“I do not know if Magath could have saved the Titanic, but at least all the survivors would have been very fit”) – Jan Åge Fjørtoft At the end of October 2012, Felix Magath’s second spell at VfL [...]

When Lucas Barrios arrived in China last summer, it was supposed to be as the new leading light of an already impressive Guangzhou Evergrande side challenging for honours on both domestic and continental fronts. The club may already have boasted well-paid South American talent in the likes of Dario Conca and Muriqui, but neither possessed [...]

The former Werder player Dieter Eilts was amongst the best footballers of his time, but is often forgotten among the other stars from the 90s. Dieter Eilts is an icon in Bremen these days. After 390 Bundesliga matches, two German championships, three DFB Pokal wins and one win in the European Cup-winners Cup Eilts decided to [...]

Fans of German football do not have to go back very far in time to remember when VfL Wolfsburg, on the backs of incredible performances from strikers Grafite and Edin Džeko, shocked the league in 2009 by winning the Bundesliga title, seemingly out of nowhere. However, failure to follow-up on this success, coupled by the [...]

Everything has been new to Málaga this season in the Champions League, and the trend continues here as they face Borussia Dortmund; it’s the sides’ first ever meeting and the first time Málaga have even faced German opponents in Europe. So far so good in terms of handling these new experiences too, for a club [...]

The last meeting between Juventus and Bayern Munich is not remembered fondly among the Bianconeri faithful. As if that 4-1 home defeat in 2009, resulting in elimination from the group stage of the Champions League wasn’t a bitter pill to swallow in itself, what happened that night was an omen of worse things to come [...]

Renowned filmmaker Aljoscha Pause has covered various hot-button issues in football and made award-winning films. In 2006 he attended a youth football tournament featuring some of the biggest clubs from around the world to document some of the promising young crop of players.  What was initially planned as a feature on young talent in Germany [...]

Last summer, HSV spent 2.5 million euros for the signature of Karlsruher’s 18-year old midfielder Hakan Çalhanoğlu, snapping him from under the nose of Werder Bremen. Loaned back for the season, Çalhanoğlu has been arguably the biggest star in KSC’s comeback bid to the 2.Bundesliga. At the time of writing, KSC sit top of the [...]