Posts Tagged "German football"

At the end of the current season, German giants Bayern Munich will bid farewell to manager Jupp Heynckes, who has engineered many a success for the club this season.

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Germany has produced some of the greatest footballers the world has ever had the privilege of watching.

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In a few days time, Australia will play Germany in a friendly at Mönchengladbach. The last time these two teams met was during the World Cup campaign.

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Thanks to the wonders of extra digital channels, I am able to experience the best American TV had to offer in the 60s and 70s.

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Germany’s president says he will award coach Joachim Loew the country’s Federal Cross of Merit for taking the national team to third place at the World Cup.

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A 73rd minute header from Carlos Puyol propelled Spain to its first ever World Cup final, as it held off a young German side that should leave with its head held high, despite not being able to reignite the flair that got it this far.

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I’ll admit to having a decent bias against the Germans, and no, it’s not what you think. It’s part patriotism, and part tall poppy syndrome.

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As our own teams start to drop out of World Cups, it’s in our nature to go looking for a sentimental favourite to support. Earlier today it seemed that the two main candidates were on the same side of the draw. One rarely puts ‘sentimental’ and ‘Germany’ in the same sentence.

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Five hours to go. The semi-final in Spain is anticipated and the work in Germany seems to stand still. At 6pm, the last people will leave their work; at 8:30pm the game will start.

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The highlight of the World Cup to this point has arrived – a quarterfinal clash between Argentina and Germany. Trash talk has been the theme of the build-up, as the two teams dished up plenty of verbal activity with the man himself – Diego Maradona – producing his best German accent.

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Over the weekend, I managed to take in Germany’s final preparation game, against Bosnia-Herzegovina, ahead of our Group D opener in Durban on Monday morning. The obvious conclusion to draw from the 3-1 come from behind victory is that Die Mannschaft are primed – a team on the rise, with very few weaknesses and plenty [...]

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D is for death, or at least that’s what all football loving Australian’s are thinking, whilst praying it’s not the case. This group is tougher than your blind Aunties’ meatloaf that she overcooked for five hours.

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Since the World Cup group draw at the end of last year, we’ve been told that if you are going to get the Germans, the first game is probably the best time. But the truth is that playing Germany in the first game of a major tournament is the worst time.

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I can’t pretend to have known much about Robert Enke, the German footballer who threw himself in front of a train this week, but I was more than familiar with the emotional architecture of his story, having written a piece on depression among sportspeople a few years ago for Inside Sport magazine.

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The hook line “How Good Is It?” sums up for me the Bundesliga action now on OneHD. I realise that on Fox Sports, Setanta and ESPN, there is a plethora of football available for live viewing or as highlight packages.

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The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel reports in Monday’s edition that the 2006 World Cup knock-out stage match between Brazil and Ghana was influenced by an Asian betting syndicate.

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Germany will need all the concentration and commitment they showed in beating Portugal if they are to stop Spain’s “incalculable” midfielders giving them a footballing lesson in Sunday’s Euro 2008 final.

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