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Welcome to this thread, please put on your plastic muffler and cap (or not you cheapskate). Here we discuss, shitpost or plain poo poo about/on teams from the German Bundesliga (2.Bundesliga and lower optional). Talk about football, not genital warts you picked up from whores during your stay in Germany (or elsewhere really). What is the Bundesliga? It's Germany's topflight in professional football, with 18 teams competing for the championship and European starting spots. Though realistically 8 of those teams will struggle for survival in the vain hope of not placing 16th and lower, the relegation (and play-off) spots, potentially leading to a grim future. Germany's unified league system developed quite late when compared to England, Spain or Italy, as the Bundesliga was created in 1962 (after a German loss in the WC quarterfinals) and competition starting in 1963/64, with the time during the World Wars being mostly a southern Germany affair. The Bundesliga is currently the third best football league in Europe and boasts the highest average attendance on the continent (about 41.000). So who is playing in this Bundesliga of yours? Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (aka FCB, Bayern, Dusel-Bayern) Founded: 1900 Official colours: red and white Home ground: Allianz Arena (71,901) Biggest rival: All of them except Bochum Current Manager: Josep „Pep“ Guardiola i Sala Domestic titles: Championship: 1932, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013 German Cup: 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013 International titles: Champion's League: 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001, 2013 Cup Winner's Cup: 1967 UEFA-Cup: 1996 Having won the league by late April and finishing it with only one loss and 25 points ahead of second placed Dortmund, experts (shitlords like me and all the other goony posters) expect the lead to be slightly less this season, what with Guardiola at the helm and his vision of football not yet in the heads of the squad (Stoppe! No dribbling). Done a historical triple of domestic league, cup and attaining the ranks of CL-winner 2013. Götze plays here now. Thiago too. Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund (aka Borussia Dortmund, BVB) Founded: 1909 Official colours: yellow and black Home ground: Signal Iduna Park (80,720) Biggest rival: FC Schalke 04 Current Manager: Jürgen Klopp Domestic titles: Champions: 1956, 1957, 1963, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011, 2012 German Cup: 1965, 1989, 2012 International titles: Champions League: 1997 Cup Winners Cup: 1966 The dethroned domestic champions had a good run in the Champions League, destroying Real Madrid in the process (bonus points for that), but Bayern proved too much for the club last season, having their RECORD-BREAKING 81 points from 11/12 pulverized on top. Also lost their biggest talent to the good old release clause, reinvesting the money into Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF1w2myKnn8). Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH (aka Bayer, Werkself, Vizekusen) Founded: 1904 Official colours: red and black Home ground: BayArena (30,210) Biggest rival: 1. FC Köln Current Manager: Sami Hyypiä Domestic titles: German Cup: 1993 International titles: UEFA-Cup: 1988 After last seasons "Tale of Two Managers" with both Sami Hyypiä and Sascha Lewandoski at the helm due to Hyypiä not having a coaching license yet, this season sees him as the singular manager of the team, with Lewandowski going back to the youth division he originated from. Almost unnoticed by rest of the Bundesliga, Leverkusen did extremely well considering their experimental management structure and came in 3rd, a single point behind Dortmund and thus qualified for the Champions League. The season was not without successes either, with Stefan Kießling winning the "Torjägerkanone" for scoring 25 goals and Leverkusen being the only domestic team to defeat the almighty Bayern. That win ended a 20+ year losing streak in Munich for the team, too. After losing André Schürrle to Chelsea and Daniel Carvajal to Real Madrid, Leverkusen has to fill some serious gaps in their starting 11 and chose to do so with the usual measures: buying FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e.V (aka Schalke 04, S04, „Die Knappen“, “4-Minuten-Meister”) Founded: 1904 Official colours: blue and white Home ground: Veltins-Arena (61,673) Biggest rival: Borussia Dortmund Current Manager: Jens Keller Domestic titles: Championship: 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1958 German Cup: 1937, 1972, 2001, 2002, 2011 International titles: UEFA-Cup: 1997 UI-Cup: 2009, 2004 Had a great run in both league and CL placing second in November, only to fall in a valley of bad form after the win at Dortmund. Salvaged fourth place with a decider on the last matchday. Sport-Club Freiburg (aka Breisgau Brasilianer) Founded: 1904 Official colours: red and white Home ground: Badenova-Stadion (24,000) Biggest rival: VfB Stuttgart Current Manager: Christian Streich Freiburg is a rather small club from the southwest of Germany, mostly known for their student-club image and the 16-year-reign of former manager Volker Finke, with whom the club had its biggest success, finishing 3rd in the season 1994/95. They played the UEFA cup in the following year and once again in 2001. After relegation in 2005, they played in the 2nd league until 2009. Directly qualified for the EL group this season, I'm not sure what to expect from a side that has lost several of its key players. Eintracht Frankfurt e. V. (aka Die Adler, SGE, Schlappekicker, Launische Diva) Founded: 1899 Official colours: Red, black and white Home ground: Commerzbank-Arena (51.500) Biggest rival: Kickers Offenbach Current Manager: Armin Veh Domestic titles: Championship: 1959 German Cup: 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988 International titles: Cup Winners' Cup: 1980 Back in business and straight to EL-play-offs, quite a jump from freshly promoting. The glorious European past might fool some fans, but it's not certain Veh will still manage the club until the end of season. Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (aka HSV, Rothosen) Founded: 1887 Official colours: blue, white and black Home ground: Imtech Arena (57,000) Biggest rival: St. Pauli, Werder Bremen Current Manager: Thorsten Fink Domestic titles: Championship: 1923, 1928, 1960, 1979, 1982, 1983 German Cup: 1963, 1976, 1987 International titles: European Cup: 1983 Cup Winners' Cup: 1977 The last of the founding members of the Bundesliga that has never been relegated (and never got relegated from the highest tier of football even before that), the HSV enjoyed its most successful spell in the late 70s and early 80s with legends like Felix Magath and Kevin Keegan playing in the red shorts that gave the team its nickname. In the nineties, they had more than one brush with relegation, but managed to outlast the other founding members that finally went down during that time (Köln, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt). Since building a new stadium, they had a good spell, regularly qualifying for Europe and seemingly building a top team slowly, but steadily. Things came to a halt in the past two years, though, as it became apparent that they had more a collection of players than a real team, going along with constant power struggles on the board and in management. With Fink and Arnesen at the helm, they now start anew. They have been weeding out and shipping off the likes of van Nistelrooy, Zé Roberto and Trochowski and brought in mostly young players, including no less than four players from Chelsea and their reserves. Bounced back from 15th and were not far away from securing an European competition spot. Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 Mönchengladbach e. V. (aka Borussia Mönchengladbach or "Die Fohlen") Founded: 1900 Official colours: black, white and red Home ground: Stadion im Borussia-Park (54,067) Biggest rival: 1. FC Köln Current Manager: Lucien Favre Domestic titles: Championship: 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977 German Cup: 1960, 1973, 1995 International titles: UEFA-Cup: 1975, 1979 If you think of Borussia Mönchengladbach, you think of the glorious spell they had in the time between 1970 and 1980. In this era, they dominated the league, winning all of their five championships and also won the German cup once. During this spell they also won the UEFA-Cup twice, showing that they were a force to be reckoned with in Europe. They even reached the Champions League final in 1977, but lost 1-3 to Liverpool in Rome. Since then, the club has dwindled in importance because of the old stadion was a financial bottleneck until 2004. Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896 e. V. (aka Hannover 96, Die 96er, Die Roten) Founded: 1896 Official colours: black, white and green Home ground: AWD-Arena (49,000) Biggest rival: Werder Bremen Current Manager: Mirko Slomka Domestic titles: Championship: 1938, 1954 German Cup: 1992 International titles: UI Cup: 1967, 1972, 1973 Trains, Robert Enke, wreck. Didn't qualify for EL this time around because of literal schedule congestion due to 400 qualifier matches tiring the squad and lots of injuries. Mame Diouf will continue to break the league. 1. FC Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V. (aka FCN, Der Glubb) Founded: 1900 Official colours: red and white Home ground: easyCredit-Stadion (48,553) Biggest rival: SpVgg Greuther Fürth, Bayern München Current Manager: Michael Wiesinger & Armin Reutershahn Domestic titles: Championship: 1920, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1936, 1948, 1961, 1968 German Cup: 1935, 1939, 1962, 2007 International titles: none; Semi-final in the European Cup 61/62 and quarterfinal in the Cup Winners' Cup 62/63 A record-setting side with the most championships behind Bayern, but more recently a record 7 relegations from the Bundesliga, paired with a record 7 promotions to the Bundesliga and the only club to get relegated as both defending champion (1969) and reigning cup winner (2008). Since the last relegation, the team has been rebuilt around young players and so far managed not only to stay up, but also finished in a secure 10th place. During the break, they defensive cornerstones, putting the defensive stability - one of the team's strengths in recent years - in jeopardy. On the other end of the pitch it remains to be seen whether the newly signed strikers (or Tomas Pekhart) can finally deliver a better output than in previous years. All in all, the only rational ambition should be staying up, extending their longest spell in the top flight since 1994 for yet another year. Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg Fußball GmbH (aka VfL Wolfsburg, “Die Wölfe”) Founded: 2001 (1945) Official colours: green and white Home ground: Volkswagen Arena (30,000) Biggest rival: The plastic fans really don’t care Current Manager: Dieter Hecking Domestic titles: Championship: 2009 Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (aka VfB) Founded: 1893 Official colours: white and red Home ground: Mercedes-Benz Arena (41,000+ during the ongoing remodeling, 60,300 once finished) Biggest rival: Current Manager: Bruno Labbadia Domestic titles: Championship: 1950, 1952, 1984, 1992, 2007 German Cup: 1954, 1958, 1997 Pretending to play football, the clubs foundation was a lost pub bet in which a drunk Swabian idiot confused 'footing the bill' with kicking the crap out of his neighbors, the Hitlers (and look what that got us). Here we are 119 years after the fact and the club still has not learned what the beautiful game of football entails. Stuttgart, again, was really loving inconsistent last year, constantly switching between phases of title-contending-performances and utter dogshit. They also succeeded in selling all their talented young players. Again. Mohammed Abdellaoue will continue to break the league. 1. Fußball- und Sportverein Mainz 05 e.V. (aka Mainz 05, Karnevalsverein) Founded: 1905 Official colours: red and white Home ground: Coface Arena (34,034) Biggest rival: Current Manager: Thomas Tuchel Infamous for: finishing 4th two times in a row in the 2nd league, before finally making it into the Bundesliga in 2004 under the current Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp. After relegation in 2007 and yet another 4th place in 2008, they're back in the Bundesliga since 2009. Last year was the most successful season in the clubs history, resulting in an upcoming Euro-League qualifying game against Romanian powerhouse (lol) Gaz Metan Medias. They moved into their new stadium during the summer, leaving their long-time carnival stronghold "Am Bruchweg". Sport-Verein Werder von 1899 e. V. Bremen (aka Werder Bremen, Werder, “Die Fischköppe”) Founded: 1899 Official colours: green and white Home ground: Weserstadion (43,789) Biggest rival: Hamburger SV Current Manager: Robin Dutt Domestic titles: Championship: 1965, 1988, 1993, 2004 German Cup: 1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 International titles: UI-Cup: 1998 Cup Winners’ Cup: 1992 Werder Bremen. Amazing to watch as a neutral, atrocious to be a supporter. Famous for leading with three goals, then bottling it hilariously and vice versa. Remember the 4-4 against Valencia last year? Yeah that’s Bremen in a nutshell. But oh how the mighty have fallen. Not having qualified for international football in the last three years and thus missing a lot of money, Bremen had to sell off every single player that was any good in the last twelve months and their current squad is only just resembling Bundesliga quality. They brought in some good loans with de Bruyne and Petersen, but I expect them not to do very well this season. See Hamburg after their rebuilding last season. Thomas Schaaf, the manager with the longest tenure in the Bundesliga, had his goodbye last season with Werder narrowly escaping the clutches of relegation. Fußball-Club Augsburg 1907 e. V. (aka FC Augsburg, FCA) Founded: 1907 Official colours: red, green and white Home ground: SGL arena (30,660) Biggest rival: TSV 1860 München Current Manager: Markus Weinzierl In the year 2000, Walter Seinsch took over the club and completely restructured it. Since then, the club has slowly but steadily risen from the 4th division to the 1st division, where they are now some sort of wild card. The squad itself is very mediocre, with some gems in it. But the experience of constantly playing with a very similar squad over the last years has welded the players together and so they survived last season and stayed up. Were dead last until the last couple of matchdays but really fought their way out of the relegation zone. I did a tiny fistpunch upon hearing the club saved itself again. My personal choice of The Underdog. Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e. V. (aka TSG, Hoffe, 18,99, Hoppenheim) Founded: 1899 Official colours: blue and white Home ground: Rhein-Neckar-Arena (30,150) Biggest rival: real fans, maybe VfB Stuttgart to a certain extent Current Manager: Markus Gisdol In his youth, Dietmar Hopp played football for TSG Hoffenheim and 27 years later, he decided to give something back and help the small town club. In between, Hopp had founded SAP, a multi-billion euro enterprise, and had become a billionaire himself. He pumped considerable amounts into the club, including training center and a new stadium. And of course a lot of players, although Hopp and Hoffenheim have avoided really big transfers. Lots of disciplinary and professional trouble in the squad combined with a lack of passion for the club led to an early exit for Babbel, a very Kurz stint (it is a pun) and Gisdol from youth development picking up the pieces to salvage Hoffenheims Bundesliga stay with surprisingly good football against the shitkickers from Kaiserslautern in the relegation play-offs. Wiese and Derdiyok had terrible seasons and might be looking for a way out (good luck with that, ha!). Hertha BSC Berlin Founded: 1892 Official colours: blue and white Home ground: Olympiastadion Berlin (74,244) Biggest rival: Need to amend this Current Manager: Jos Luhukay Domestic titles: Championship: 1930, 1931 The boys are back yet again, this time with a good manager (Luhukay is a bit underrated imo) who also kept up Augsburg the season before. Eintracht Braunschweig Founded: 1895 Official colours: blue and yellow Home ground: Eintracht Stadion (25,540) Biggest rival: Need to amend this Current Manager: Torsten Lieberknecht Domestic titles: Championship: 1967 One of the traditional Bundesliga outfits (and founder) makes its reappearance after 25 years of lower division hopping. I only remember Breitner playing there and Jägermeister sponsor kits. Addendum: Dunban got Managerliga rolling, look here for information (need to register). Now discuss! Contributors: Healbot, Katana Gomai, MuLepton, frankenfreak, Mandalay, WHAT A BREAKFAST and ephex Healbot fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Reminder that the 2nd Bundesliga starts today y'all.
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Ground floor. You missed the "2013/14" bit in the title but I don't think it matters much. Also you didn't copy the BB code from my Leverkusen bit (just quote my original post, it'll show up) so it's missing some formating. So, are we going to do a manager game this season? Katana Gomai fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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Tarik Elyounussi will break the league with Hoffenheim.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 12:59 |
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New season here we go! Wonder if Köln fans are going to celebrate their first away match with a bunch of Pyro in Dresden?
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Katana Gomai posted:Ground floor. You missed the "2013/14" bit in the title but I don't think it matters much. Also you didn't copy the BB code from my Leverkusen bit (just quote my original post, it'll show up) so it's missing some formating. Look at you being all wrong. (Thanks Finn) And yes, I'd be in for a game.
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elbkaida posted:Wonder if Köln fans are going to celebrate their first away match with a bunch of Pyro in Dresden? I'd be in for a manager game, too.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 13:33 |
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Thanks for making the new thread. I know I'm only popping in every few months to post an opinion nobody agrees with, but I love lurking in here anyway. That said, 1860 did it again: I'm excited even though I should know better after years and years of disappointment. New jersey look sweet as gently caress, sponsor is the most fitting since "Löwenbräu" and I somehow believe that the new players (even though I hated Adlung at Cottbus) can improve our game.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 13:37 |
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Time to take a look at the old family tree and find some German ancestry. Won't be too hard.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 13:40 |
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re:Managers, I'm looking at the Kicker ones and I think the Interactive one would suit us best. The Pro version seems a bit too dependant on having 18 teams in your league and I am pretty sure we can't fill that. Does someone want to take over starting a Kicker Interactive league? I'm running the Kicktipp again this season. http://www.kicker.de/games/interactive/startseite/gamesstartseite.html
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 13:50 |
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Kicker Interactive is good fun. I'd be in. They haven't started the new season yet, though.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 14:16 |
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Is there a kicktipp league for this season yet?
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Nice op Healbot, A+ tenouttaten would read againKatana Gomai posted:re:Managers, I'm looking at the Kicker ones and I think the Interactive one would suit us best. The Pro version seems a bit too dependant on having 18 teams in your league and I am pretty sure we can't fill that. Does someone want to take over starting a Kicker Interactive league? I'm running the Kicktipp again this season. Yeah, I'd be up for Interactive. Pro is too much of a hassle what with constantly having to buy and sell players and if the players they give you at the start are crap, you're hosed anyway. I can set it up if you guys don't mind.
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Sereri posted:Is there a kicktipp league for this season yet? The kicktipp is still under https://www.kicktipp.de/goons, I just restarted it to 2013/14. Feel free to enter your tipps, I set it so that everyone who was signed up last year is still registered. Actually add the Kicktipp to the OP, and the Kicker thing once it opens next week and Dunban has set it up.
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gently caress yeah let's do this, gonna go make some bavarians cry tonight.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 17:31 |
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Sankt Pauli can go gently caress themselves after that game; what a bleh goal. Ditto the Sechzig defense, because they almost completely disappeared in the last 10 minutes. Protip Herr Schmidt: putting 4 strikers on the field doesn't mean squat if their strikers get through the backline time after time for a clear shot.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 21:26 |
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Anyone watching this Hamburg - Bayern game? Pep really needs to shave.
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az posted:
That rules. Meanwhile here in The East Most Rostock Fans still shitheads on the train.
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# ? Jul 20, 2013 17:49 |
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What a great assist by Ribery there
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# ? Jul 20, 2013 18:33 |
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Distant Mist posted:What a great assist by Ribery there The real beauty was Thiago's pass before that.
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# ? Jul 20, 2013 18:49 |
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Bochum just beat Union Berlin 2-1, the first step to complete Neururer domination has been taken.
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Great Goal in the first half by Jonas Hoffmann. I hope he can establish himself in the squad this season. Dortmund could definitely use some more depth. edit: Outstanding OP by the way.
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I picked HSV semi-randomly as my Bundesliga team to plastic for a few years ago, but now I'm really turned off by the politics (right-wing) of some of their ultras. Do all HSV fans have a reputation for that?
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Nah, they're not known for that at all. But don't fret, there are plenty of other reasons why it sucks to be a HSV supporter!
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# ? Jul 21, 2013 19:53 |
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I mean, I'm pretty used to supporting lovely teams elsewhere, so I think I'll be okay there.
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az posted:
That is a awesome banner and please tell me they make a t-shirt of that.
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I'm hoping to be Stuttgart's biggest fan by the end of the season. I spent a year there on Erasmus (so I'm not a plastic) and I wanna start following the Bundesliga, since it looks like this whole immigrating into Switzerland thing is working out and it counts as studying german Soooo do we have any good players or what
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poty posted:Soooo do we have any good players or what Mohammed Abdellaoue is pretty much the best striker in the league.
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So why hasn't Bayern signed him?
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Because we don't sign Norwegians.
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# ? Jul 21, 2013 22:40 |
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(euroboy just really likes his fellow Norwegians to do well)
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# ? Jul 21, 2013 22:42 |
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He's a top, top lad and player.
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Good OP, OP. euroboy posted:He's a top, top lad and player. After his first great season he became a bit poo poo tbh.
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Adulterous Hitler posted:Good OP, OP. And injured. There are currently six -6- Norwegians in the 1. Bundesliga: Håvard Nordtveit (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Omar Elabdellaoui (Eintracht Braunschweig), Vegar Eggen Hedenstad (SC Freiburg), Per Ciljan Skjelbred (Hamburger SV), Tarik Elyounoussi (Hoffenheim) and Mohammed Abdellaoue (Stuttgart). None of them will score more than five goals this season. The only player who will be counted as a regular (20+ games) is Nordtveit. Btw, since I am a plastic HSV-supporter my first match of the season will be Hertha Berlin - Hamburg. Looking forward to it.
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poty posted:So why hasn't Bayern signed him? Because they will get Lewandowski next year for free.
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Hello Towel posted:I picked HSV semi-randomly as my Bundesliga team to plastic for a few years ago, but now I'm really turned off by the politics (right-wing) of some of their ultras. The proud Sportvereins of Hamburg are not more or less racist than other (non-east German) clubs so you're good. Also Kießling is the best Striker, deal with it.
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# ? Jul 22, 2013 13:42 |
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Alright, I've set up our kicker interactive manager league. There you go.
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Giovanni_Sinclair posted:That is a awesome banner and please tell me they make a t-shirt of that. Yes there are; Katana Gomai posted:The proud Sportvereins of Hamburg are not more or less racist than other (non-east German) clubs so you're good. I don't want to put my hands in the fire for HSV fans but I don't think they are any more racist than any of the eastern clubs, I'm pretty sure less. And Pauli fans would eat their own if they were found to be fascists. az fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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HSV ultras are notoriously dumb as poo poo, but mostly left wing, too. Normal HSV fans are notoriously dumb as poo poo and that's it btw if you like Sankt Pauli/Antifa Streetart, you should probably check this youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Schleimkinski
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az posted:Yes there are; Is there any way to get that shirt in the U.S.? Does it come in other colors?
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