Bundesliga Fanatic

In typical fashion, the Germans spoiled the party. Come May 25, 2013, the English Football Association was due to celebrate a hundred and fifty years of incompetence, sorry existence, with the crowning glory of the second Champions League final in Wembley in three years. Football was coming home and with an English team defending their [...]

Kevin De Bruyne has been a small bright spark in a very poor season for Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. The German side have surprised many by letting themselves slip down to 15th place in the league, picking up just 8 wins all season. Their star players have failed to make a large impact all [...]

There remains no greater journey in European football than that of Real Madrid’s to achieve the coveted La Decima. It quite simply possesses the club and until it’s exorcised with the 10th Champions League victory the halls of Bernabéu will continue to feel narrow, and incomplete. This is not greed on the part of Madrid, [...]

In a shock transfer, Borussia Dortmund’s 20-year-old superstar, Mario Götze, has officially signed for recently crowned German champions Bayern Munich and will join the club in the summer.  According to German publication Bild yesterday, Bayern activated Götze’s 37 million Euro release clause and signed the youngster to a four year contract. Mario Götze has been [...]

All is left to play for in next week’s return leg at the Signal Iduna Park as Málaga and Borussia Dortmund played out a goalless draw at La Rosaleda on this warm Wednesday night. However, despite being the away side, it will be Dortmund who will be going home the most disappointed as it was [...]

Germany extended their lead at the top of World Cup Qualifying Group C with a routine 4-1 win against Kazakhstan in Nuremberg on Tuesday evening.  Joachim Löw made three enforced changes to the side that coasted to a 3-0 away win on Friday in Astana. Borussia Dortmund’s Ilkay Gündogan replaced the suspended Bastian Schweinsteiger in midfield. [...]

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 [...]

World Cup qualifying resumes for Germany this week with back to back fixtures against Kazakhstan.  Alongside resuming their journey to Brazil, the next couple of games may also signal a significant tactical shift in the team’s development.  For the first time in over a 100 years, Germany could line up without a recognized striker in [...]

Borussia Dortmund have reached the quarterfinal round of the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 1997/1998 season following an emphatic 3-0 win Tuesday night over Shakhtar Donetsk at Signal Iduna Park.  Despite their recent domestic success, Dortmund made a big leap forward in advancing to the quarterfinals following two previous seasons of [...]

Bayern Munich took another step in asserting their dominance by eliminating their bogey team from the German Cup.  After six straight matches in the league and Cup without a win, Bayern finally overcame Dortmund thanks to a brilliant Arjen Robben goal in the first half. Bayern are through to the semifinals, but more importantly, they [...]