Wolfsburg and the new kits
By: Anna | May 10th, 2008The 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 absolutely necessary.
Considering the line-up, Serdar Tasci has torn a muscle fiber in the last match, but since Meira is fit again there shouldn’t be any problems. Both Veh and Heldt didn’t want to comment on the situation of Raphael Schäfer. He’s been heavily criticised by the fans once again, which of course isn’t helping the least.
Here’s the line-up from the VfB’s web-site:
Schäfer
Osorio-Meira-Delpierre-Magnin
Hilbert-Pardo-Bastürk-Hitzlsperger
Gomez-Cacau
Nothing new there, da Silva is back on the bench, as well as Beck. Let’s hope this team, which would have been the standard line up for the whole season if it hadn’t been for all the injuries will stand up to the pressure of having to win in order to save the UEFA-Cup spot.
On a different note, since today the kits for the 08/09 season are available. Here’s a look:
Stuttgart isn’t a club to experiment with the design a lot, simply because there aren’t so many combinations of a red stripe on white ground possible.
What confuses me a little about the home jersey is
a) the collar and
b) that blue/red stripe in the middle.
The away jersey looks like a true classic, even better than the one from 06/07. The white collar from last year, which always confused me a little, is gone again.
The 3rd is definitely an improvement from the yellow/black BVB lookalike ones they had this season. I suppose after the VfB played one match against Cottbus in black, the demand for those kits was so high they decided to introduce them as the new thirds. The two white stripes on the shoulder are a little strange, though. As someone from a VfB-forum pointed out, it looks like a cheap Adidas ripoff.
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I didn’t see the match. I wonder why stupid captain got a red card just 20 mins in the first half.
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Truth is, I don’t have much of a clue either. Several people who actually had the chance to watch told me it wasn’t necessarily a red, but fact is he’s done things like that too often.
And to be honest I wish we’d start into the next season with either Pardo or Hitzlsperger as captain. For a “normal” player to get sent off three times in one season (!) is bad enough, but a captain just should have his temper under control a little more.
I’ll write more about that once I’ve had the chance to look at some video footage (there’s no way I’ll get through the torture of watching the whole match!)Posted from
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