Bundesliga Fanatic

There seems to exist a law of football, dooming VfB Stuttgart to a sloppy start to the beginning of each season. During the last couple of years, supporters of the Swabian club have built a lot of hope during the summer, only to be disappointed very soon. Mockers like to say that Stuttgart’s season always starts [...]

Armin Veh returned to Stuttgart, where he unexpectedly won the Bundesliga title in 2007, with his Eintracht Frankfurt side flying high in third after Schalke’s win against Nürnberg on Saturday. No promoted side has started a Bundesliga season better than Frankfurt have this year, and they were hoping to stay on Bayern’s tail with three [...]

The final fixture of MatchDay 8 saw a Stuttgart side languishing in the playoff relegation spot headed to the Imtech Arena to take on a Hamburg club that had risen well from its early season struggles.  But it was the visiting Stuttgart side that took home all three points with a much-needed 1-0 win over [...]

The four German clubs involved in this year’s Europa League competition were unable to duplicate the success Tuesday and Wednesday of their Bundesliga brethren. Schalke, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern  München all earned victories in the first round of Champions League matches.  Instead, Hannover, VfB Stuttgart, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach all had to settle for a [...]

Once again Bundesliga players represented their home nations across the globe during the first round of games of the international break.  Stuttgart’s  Vedad Ibišević scored a hat trick, while Jefferson Farfan of Schalke had a brace and Bayern München’s Manuel Neuer as well as Wolfsburg keeper Diego Benaglio registered clean sheets over the weekend in international play. [...]

A second leg 1-1 final score between Dinamo Moscow and VfB Stuttgart at the Arena Khimki Tuesday evening was enough to see Stuttgart advance in the Europa League tournament, as they won on aggregate 1-3.  All three Stuttgart goals in the two legs were scored by former Hoffenheim striker Vedad Ibišević. Dinamo Moscow came into the match [...]

Both Bruno Labbadia and Felix Magath can’t be happy about their team’s performances. Tonight’s clash between Stuttgart and Wolfsburg promised to be a match full of goal mouth action, going by the recent history of the matches between the two sides. The last five matches had produced 20 goals, or four goals on average. The [...]

There will be goals.  VfB Stuttgart finished fourth in the Bundesliga in goalscoring last season and fourth the season before.  Attacking talents such as Vedad Ibisevic (57 career Bundesliga league goals), Cacau (86), Martin Harnik (27), Tamas Hajnal (17), Cristian Gentner (22), plus recent Bundesliga newcomers such as Shinji Okazaki (9 league goals in 38 [...]

There’s plenty of Bundesliga news with the transfer season in full bloom, the London Olympics getting underway with Gladbach’s Yuki Otsu scoring a goal heard ’round the world Thursday, and German clubs playing test matches as they prepare for the upcoming season. Hannover will look to repeat their success last season in the Europa League [...]

I’ll admit, I root for VfB Stuttgart. I also root for many other Bundesliga teams, because as an American, I’m not regionally or traditionally tied to any one team. If being a Bundesliga fan living outside of Germany can be frustrating at times, it can also contain the blessing of freedom to choose which club [...]