A new face

By: Anna | March 31st, 2008

Well, hello there!
My name is Anna, I’m twenty-one years old, live in Munich and will be your new blogger about all news concerning the VfB Stuttgart.
Considering yesterday’s result, I could have picked a better moment to start writing, but the VfB seems to have developed a trend of starting badly and then slowly sneaking up and I hope to keep it that way, too.

Maybe I should try to sum up what brought me here in the first place? Actually I live in the wrong city to be a Stuttgart fan – they don’t seem to be the kind of club that has a country-wide fan base, and living in Munich, there’s always the influence of the ever-present FC Bayern (unless you’re born into a family of TSV 1860 fans, but that’s a completely different story).

Fact is I didn’t receive any football-wise upbringing at all, got swept into it by the giant wave that was the 2006 world cup and, like many others, got into the rather unusual situation of being able to choose a club instead of just growing up into it. At the beginning (I’m going to be honest here, even though I like to deny it every once in a while) I didn’t so much choose a club but a certain blond goalkeeper, though.
But you can’t follow a single player without knowing his club and I got interested and fascinated by the team and at some point in January, had the silly idea to go and watch the last match of the 2006/07 season live at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion.
I had hoped for them to do well, but like many others, had never expected things to turn out this wonderful and if I had liked them before, now I was in love.

a little bit of last season Stuttgart nostalgia To cut a long story short, all of a sudden we were champion [sorry, I just had to enter a celebration picture here, sometimes nostalgia gets the best of me], Hildebrand left, but my heart stayed there and here I am now, almost one season later, fretting about our sometimes so confused and out-of-place looking midfield, wondering when (if?) Khedira and Tasci will be back at last year’s shape, writing alternately love letters and death threats to our captain, wishing the best to our new goalkeeper baby and still crying over how tragic things went with Raphael Schäfer and hoping that Gomez will indeed stay for another year while I secretly wish it’d be at least two (there will be a lot of writing about Mario in general, be warned. It must be the goals, and maybe, but only maybe, also the blue eyes).

So, that’s my little story, the next entries will contain some more football – I hope to be back tomorrow or the day after with a report about last weekend’s match against Rostock, which I had the joy to see live (well, the “joy” part obviously only applies for the second half-time only, but more about that later).

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