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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 [...]

Huub Stevens’ team continues to impress away from home in the Champions League. Arsenal have been one of the strongest home sides in the Champions League over the last few years. The Gunners last defeat to a non Premier League side in the competition dates nine years back in time. Schalke on the other hand [...]

Relegated! Generally, that word would suffice as a summary of any team suffering the burden of having it associated with the results of a season’s work. Yet, it hardly does justice to just how large a disaster the 2011-12 campaign was for 1. FC Köln both on and off the field. Long-time club president Wolfgang [...]

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 [...]

A hard fought win against one of the tournament’s surprise packages meant that Germany won all three group stage matches for the first time in EURO history, and thus qualified for the quarterfinals after topping the group.  A goal from centurion Podolski gave Germany the lead before Denmark exposed their vulnerability on set pieces to [...]

Charlton Heston? Russell Crowe? Michael Palin? No, a certain Lukas Podolski – who looks set to win his hundredth international cap against Denmark in Lviv on Sunday – becoming the seventh player to reach the mark for the Nationalmannschaft. In what has been a short and dynamic career where he has played a staggering 83.9% [...]

Following Germany’s last EURO preparation match against Israel in Leipzig on Thursday, the German Football Association’s (DFB) delegation visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp in honor and remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. You can find the original article on DFB.de here. In silent commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach [...]

Next up on our countdown of the season’s best performers is a group of some of the most familiar and recognizable faces in the Bundesliga over the years.  It includes a football icon in his own right, a record breaking striker, a player with one of the great comeback stories this season, a local hero and one [...]

Schalke player Raul pens a lucrative one year deal, and shocking news from Volkswagen city. Raul has signed a one year deal at Qatarian side Al Sadd according to kicker. The Spaniard was a vital part of the Schalke team for the last two seasons, scoring 28 goals in 66 appearances, prior to his move [...]

The relationship between Germany and England has never been an agreeable one. Even the Bundesliga and the Premier League have never had a well known alliance. Transfers between these two leagues seldom occur, and more often than not the moves don’t quite bear out. The most well known examples of a move  from the Bundesliga to the [...]