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 The new season draws near and a new thread is needed. We're in the middle of a historic heatwave and I'm melting while typing this. Imagine playing football in this weather. A chance to practice for the Qatar World Cup? Well, Germany needs to qualify first and, well, the taint-smelling booger-eater is still in charge of that campaign. Anyway, I'm not doing as fully featured an OP as last year because it's hot. Bundesliga We bid farewell to Robbery, the duo that at its best tore up everything and now rides off into the sunset after basically defining an era for Bayern. Bayern is doing a little bit of rebuilding and have promised a grandiose "transfer offensive" that has been not all that spectacular so far. Also Hoeneß might step down as president or maybe not. Dortmund is getting a lot of talk for actually doing a lot of good transfers on the other hand. Bayern may have won their seventh championship in a row, but with the least point total in those years. It seems like this is the best chance Dortmund or one of the other 16 (lol) will have in a while to dethrone the Rekordmeister. Schalke was back in the doldrums last year and seem to be poised to be Schadenfreude 04 once again. We say goodbye to Stuttgart, Hannover, and Nürnberg and welcome Köln, thread favorite Union Berlin, and *double checks* *rubs eyes* *sips water* *does a spit-take* Paderborn?!? in their stead. Seriously, Paderborn? I had completely forgotten they made it over the summer break. League play is still three weeks away and starts with an electrifying fixture of Bayern vs Hertha. Yikes. Starting with such a skippable match bodes well for the season.  2. Bundesliga The reason I'm posting this thread today is that our wonderful second division starts this evening. And Stuttgart vs Hannover is (relatively) speaking an actual big match between two of the league's big dogs to start off with. HSV, failing to get promoted last season, is the third one and starts their season against perennial underdogs Darmstadt. Dresden vs Nürnberg is another tasty fixture coming at the fan-friendly kickoff time of 13:00 tomorrow. The newbies this season are KSC, Osnabrück and Wehen-Wiesbaden. Wait, those are not newbies at all! We've seen these teams here before! Anyway, welcome back to them and best of luck. The 2. Liga has a tendency to have a big muddled "mid"field between the 4-5 promotion candidates and the one or two completely hopeless teams at the bottom, so anything seems possible.  3. Liga Ahahahahaha, no I'm not writing more than this sentence about it. DFB-Pokal Two weeks from now, everybody gets to pray their team doesn't embarrass themselves against the likes of KSV Baunatal, Atlas Delmenhorst, or TuS Dassendorf. Man, KSV Baunatal... takes me back to when they randomly made it to the Bundesliga in Bundesliga Manager Hattrick back in the day.     Men's National Team    Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga How's that for a league sponsor, huh? The league kicks off two hours before the men with a true classic of Frankfurt vs Potsdam, the two dominant teams before Wolfsburg (who won 5 of the last 7 championships) and Bayern (who won the other two) arrived with all their money. As always, all the media attention the women get will be via the national team, though.  DFB-Pokal der Frauen The women's cup has its first round next week, featuring some pairings that sound familiar to fans of the men's game: Eintracht Braunschweig vs Arminia Bielefeld and Hamburger SV vs Union Berlin. None of them are top flight, though. Also it appears like the Bundesliga team actually get a bye for the first round here, but I'm too sweaty to check. Or to copy the fixtures for games I have no idea how you would you even be able to watch into an already long post. It's so hot, did I mention that? Women's National Team The World Cup saw the Frauschaft bomb out in the quarterfinal despite a lot (relatively) of domestic hype around the team. Although there are voices critical of the structures in German women's football - from professionalism and player development to, of course, criticism of the handling of the game by the DFB in general - I would expect no sweeping changes. I mean the men did far worse last year and - and I need to start thinking about that because the high blood pressure thinking about that would induce would no doubt not mix well with the heat. The future might be saved because the U19 have reached the finals of the ongoing Euro after defeating the Dutch yesterday and will face France on Sunday for the gold. (All fixtures subject to heat-related cancellation. It's hot.) frankenfreak fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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And before you ask: yes, I almost chose the  tag like a stupid newbie
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https://www.zeit.de/sport/2019-08/clemens-toennies-tag-des-handwerks-klimawandel-rassismusquote:Clemens Tönnies, Aufsichtsratschef des Fußballbundesligisten Schalke 04, hat mit seinen Thesen zur Eindämmung des Klimawandels Kritik auf sich gezogen. Beim Tag des Handwerks am Donnerstag sagte der Miteigentümer des Lebensmittelherstellers Tönnies Holding laut der Zeitung Neue Westfälische, statt höherer Steuern solle man lieber jährlich 20 Kraftwerke in Afrika finanzieren. Tönnies Begründung dafür: "Dann würden die Afrikaner aufhören, Bäume zu fällen, und sie hören auf, wenn’s dunkel ist, Kinder zu produzieren." 
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karton.eu Even the sponsors for this cup are far from super.
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Bayern might have wanted to score there...
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Chemnitz fires their captain over buddying up to racists and neo-nazis: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/chemnitzer-fc-wirft-stuermer-wegen-naehe-zu-rechtsextremen-raus-16319212.html quote:Zusätzlich zum aktuellen Vorfall sahen die Gesellschafter der Fußball GmbH nach früheren Vorkommnissen keinen Sinneswandel bei Stürmer Frahn. „Seine Reue damals war eine Farce. Er konnte und wollte die Verantwortung als Spieler und Mannschaftskapitän im Fußballklub nicht umsetzen, denn dazu gehört eines mehr, als nur Tore zu schießen und sich bejubeln zu lassen: Haltung“, hieß es im Statement der Gesellschafterversammlung, die hinzufügte: „Daniel Frahn, für Sie ist beim Chemnitzer FC kein Platz mehr.“ Meanwhile on Schalke:
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 Some interesting pairings in there.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Is this a domestic cup?
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"these days" as opposed to...
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It's time he stepped down, he has no new material. Threatening the national team is such an old hat.
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Gladbach Bayern Freiburg I have been hoping this is the season Bayern's streak will break, but I did not expect these two teams to do it.
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Oct 28, 2019 00:00
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Ssh, don't ruin this moment while it lasts.
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Oct 28, 2019 13:15
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A very good day.
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lol https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/champions-league/moeglicher-trainer-wenger-wuerde-mit-fc-bayern-muenchen-sprechen-16473114.html
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Lousy Smarsch keeper
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Nov 24, 2019 16:04
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 Lothar is next!
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Die Bayern, die e: a good day to be a Borusse 
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Bundesliga and other German football 20XX: It's all Bayern? Always has been.
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How to kill a manager's career in four words or fewer
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https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesells...n-17152809.html https://www.kicker.de/corona-verstoss-gladbach-streicht-embolo-aus-dem-kader-794948/artikel 
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lol thanks Darmstadt
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Feb 6, 2021 14:54
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The taint-smelling booger-eater is calling it quits after the Euro 
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Mar 9, 2021 20:39
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so close... 
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Mar 21, 2021 15:32
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I'm all for boycotting the World Cup in Qatar, but this is a weird way to go about it.
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DFB is still a shitshow and I'm not talking about the national team
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Infected posted:That's not a nice thing to say about Schalke selling it's esports spot in the LEC for 26,5 Millions.
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Sereri posted:Finally rid of Löw, now with Flick everything will become better, surely.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:10
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dxt posted:Löw raus!!!
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Jun 29, 2021 19:30
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There is no corruption in DFB
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 https://11freunde.de/artikel/tempolimit-auf-aussenbahnen/4470624
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Schalke still good for laughs
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Oct 26, 2021 20:44
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Jo, irgendwie doof, das.
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Pand posted:Surely the "biggest" left is Hoffenheim.
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tbp posted:we get a new pokal winner for the first time in like three decades
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Lol Hertha, just lmao
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