The fiftieth anniversary season of the German Bundesliga -which was founded in 1963 – started this weekend with Bayern München making an immediate positive impression.
With impressive performances from new signings Mario Mandzukic, Xherdan Shaqiri and world class Dutch star Arjen Robben seemingly back in form, it seems under their new general sports director Matthias Sammer, that Bayern München have made the correct signings [...] Continue Reading…
In front of some 66,000, mostly FC Bayern München fans and in their own Allianz Arena home stadium – Chelsea of London, defeated Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League last night after a penalty shootout and thus are recipients of the most lucrative prize in European football.
The capture of this Cup with the ‘Big Ears’ for Chelsea means the [...] Continue Reading…
So it was going to be either Hertha BSC Berlin or FC Köln which survived yesterdays – both mainstays of the German Bundesliga for the past ½ century – and the one to definitively drop-out became Koln.
On the 34th Bundesliga match-day Hertha needed to win at home to Hoffenheim and they had to hope that Koln would get a good thrashing at [...] Continue Reading…
Bayern München will face a Champions League final in their own Allianz Arena stadium on Saturday the 19th of May against the English and London team Chelsea.
They had to beat previous nine-time champions Real Madrid to do it – but they did it in Madrid, in the end having to go to penalties.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was one of the heroes of the [...] Continue Reading…
Bayern München vs. Real Madrid will be on many peoples minds later this evening – in Berlin, in Germany and the rest of Europe.
Love them or hate them – and lets be honest and clear about this, many hate them in Berlin and through-out Germany – and lets be honest about this also – they are, when hated done so because of their amazing [...] Continue Reading…
Ben-Hatira , with Tunisian parents, was born in Berlin in 1988 and started his football career playing for local youth clubs eventually ending up at Hertha BSC.
Otto Rehhagel presented a different team which lost to Bayern Munich last week in a painful 0-6 drubbing.
Brought into the team was Ben-Hatira, Lell moved from midfield to right back to replace and Kobiashvili was deposited [...] Continue Reading…
Bayern München ‘cleaned the clock’ of sinking-quickly Hertha Berlin in the German capital yesterday evening, out-playing the Berliners in all aspects of the game winning 0-6.
This after earlier in the last week having won 7-1 against Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga last weekend and then winning 7-0 against Swiss Basel FC in the Champions league in the middle of the week.
Hertha Berlin, seemingly [...] Continue Reading…
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The Bundesliga Season opened after its winter pause with a loss for league leaders Bayern and 11th place Hertha Berlin, and a win for Schalke today over Stutgart 3-1.
Hertha Berlin ran into an inspired Nuremberg – who in their 1000th Bundesliga match – won at home 2-0 against a seemingly lackluster Hertha Berlin. This was not the start that new Hertha coach Michael Skibbe had [...] Continue Reading…
[ Football pitch with dimensions from Wikipedia by 'NielsF']
Tomorrow evening in Hamburg at 2045hrs the Dutch national football team – otherwise known as ‘Oranje’ or ‘Orange’ – will play a ‘friendly international’ against Germany.
Both teams played tied friendly games last Friday – Germany came from behind and ended in a 3-3 away draw against Ukraine while the Netherlands [...] Continue Reading…
What an upset – what a shocker and yes even for Hertha Berlin fans!
Hertha Berlin, just a couple of weeks after their re-entry into the Bundesliga after having been relegated to the 2nd division last year, beat the current reigning champions, Dortmund!
After this game Dortmund side are now ….wait for it…..10th in the table! Always the consummate gentleman, Jurgen Klopp Dortmund’s manager [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/Munchen 08-08-2010
Dutch World Cup footballer Arjen Robben has been voted Bundesliga best player of the 2009-2010 season in a German footballers’ poll which was dominated by players from the champions Bayern Munich.
The attacking midfielder – often seen as one of the top players in the world, recieved an overwhelming 72 % of the votes in a survey of the German Professional Footballers [...] Continue Reading…
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