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A Bayern Munich advance to the DFB Pokal final against a very mediocre Wolfsburg squad promised to be as inevitable as tomorrow’s sunrise.  Bayern Munich’s quest for the treble and a 16th DFB Pokal title successfully continued Tuesday evening, ending in a convincing 6-1  Pokal semifinal win at the Allianz Arena.  The Bavarians will play [...]

Bayern Munich were crowned Bundesliga champions for the first time since 2009/10 after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over 5th placed Eintracht Frankfurt in the Commerzbank Arena. The Bavarians romp to the title has been well documented from their opening day away success at relegation-bound Furth to last week’s 9-2 demolition of Hamburg (HSV). The Reds [...]

Germany extended their lead at the top of World Cup Qualifying Group C with a comfortable 3-0 win in Kazakhstan on Friday evening – the very same scoreline achieved on their previous visit in 2010. The trickiest part of the trip to the former Soviet republic may have been actually getting to the world’s ninth [...]

VfL Wolfsburg gave its own fans and haters of FC Bayern Münich hope for about the first thirty minutes in their home match at the Volkswagen Arena. But thirty minutes of hope is certainly not enough to take even a point from Bayern at this stage in Die Roten‘s Rückrunde victory tour as presumptive Bundesliga [...]

Bayern extended their lead atop the Bundesliga standings with another dominant display in Hamburg.  A diving header from Bastian Schweinsteiger, a cheeky goal from a tight angle from Thomas Müller and a trademark hammer from Toni Kroos gave Bayern their first win in Hamburg since 2006.  After their first league loss to Leverkusen last week, [...]

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. [...]

The result might not suggest it but it was a rather comfortable win for Bayern in the first Champions League game of the new season. Valencia threatened Manuel Neuer’s goal on few occasions, not really making Germany’s number 1 make a big save in the whole game. Bastian Schweinsteiger carried on his goalscoring streak by [...]

Bayern’s 3-1 win over Mainz ensures they remain on course for one of their best ever starts to a Bundesliga season.  Manduzkic, Schweinsteiger and Kroos were on the scoreboard in a strong performance against a team they have struggled against in recent memory.  With 12 goals from their first three matches, Bayern have set a [...]

Germany go out at the semi finals for the third time in four major tournaments after being beaten by an impressive Italian side. Löw’s team were unable to overcome a Balotelli brace in the first half, struggling to ever really get a grip on the game against a tactically disciplined and resolute Italian team. Ozil’s [...]

Germany have yet to beat Italy at a major tournament so not only will they have to set a new historic precedent to reach the final but they will have to do it against a team that has been improving as the tournament progressed. Like they say though, records are meant to be broken and [...]