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May 17th, 2008

Farewell, Meise!

By: Anna | Comments 3 Comments

When it comes to players taking their leave from the Bundesliga, this season all the focus is, understandably, on Oliver Kahn. His goodbye-tour through the stadiums of the league was watched with great interest and the public attention will take a while to ebb away.
But there are other players leaving. They may not have won [...]

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May 17th, 2008

Hope is our enemy… or not?

By: Anna | Comments 5 Comments

Last week the VfB Stuttgart had retreated to a short training camp at Burg Staufeneck to be able to focus on the match against Bielefeld, which would decide whether this season would end as frustrating as it started, or if there would at least be the comfort of the UEFA-Cup.
The plan was to try out [...]

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May 15th, 2008

Transfer Rumour Roundup

By: Anna | Comments 4 Comments

With all focus on Mario Gomez, as soon as the words “transfer” and “Stuttgart” are said, one could forget there are a few other people in this team. But the rumours are everywhere and here’s an attempt to summarise what’s been going on the past weeks.
The definite signings: With Jan Šimak (Carl Zeiss Jena) and [...]

May 13th, 2008

What is and what should never be

By: Anna | Comments 6 Comments

Raphael Schäfer is not going to play in this season’s last match against Arminia Bielefeld.
After a match in Wolfsburg that was overshadowed by the red card for Meira and a disastrous performance of the inner defence (or actually the whole team, if I saw that correctly), Armin Veh decided to let nineteen year old Sven [...]

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May 11th, 2008

A competition of stupidity

By: Anna | Comments 6 Comments

For someone who is not a fan of any of the teams involved it must be quite a funny picture: Hamburg, Leverkusen and Stuttgart really, really want to play in the UEFA-Cup, but keep stumbling over their own feet, while Wolfsburg, who nobody had expected to do this well, are slowly sneaking their way to [...]

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May 10th, 2008

Wolfsburg and the new kits

By: Anna | Comments 2 Comments

The importance of today’s match is obvious: Wolfsburg has been one of the most positively surprising teams of the second half of the season and Stuttgart can’t expect to beat them unless they’re fully focused. And with the same number of points as Hamburg and Leverkusen being only one victory away, these three points are [...]

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May 9th, 2008

Welcome to the Mercedes-Benz-Arena

By: Anna | Comments 8 Comments

Today the district council of Stuttgart agreed on the modification plans for the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion to a “multifunctional football stadium.” With the last hurdle on the way to the Mercedes-Benz-Arena cleared, it’s time to take a look at the plans.
When finished, the whole thing is probably going to look like this:

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May 4th, 2008

Hey, Bayern

By: Anna | Comments 5 Comments

There’s something I want you to have.

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