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Jogi is reporting seven unnamed players exhibiting flulike symptoms today, not including Mats Hummels, who is recovering and should be fit for the match on Friday. Evidently his symptoms worsened on the second day before getting better, so we can probably expect the same of those players tomorrow. Which, you know, brings their fitness on Friday ( Read more... )

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German national team players picked up a lot of individual silverware at the ballon d'or this year.

Nadine Angerer - the first goalkeeper to be women's ballon d'or - and now recognized as the best player in the world.

She was a shoo-in, of course, after THAT performance in the final of the Euros when she saved two penalties and dragged a Young and ( Read more... )

The former national-team-player Thomas Hitzlsperger ends his football-career with only 31 years.
He says, he has suffered too much injuries. "I think it's enough," he said. Although he continued to receive offers to resume his playing career, the newspaper reported, Hitzlsperger said: "I've noticed: I need something else."His breakthrough began in ( Read more... )

Oliver Kahn, Katrin Müller Hohenstein, Jogi Loew & Ottmar Hitzfeld on ZDF + Some Hocus Pocus!

Normally I provide near-literal translations, but this video is simply too long and most people are probably more interested in what Jogi Loew, Katrin Müller Hohenstein, Oliver Kahn (they can barely stand to look at each other - a source of constant ( Read more... )

He's signed for the Chicago Fire for a year!

Arne's post about it on his site.

( Google-translated into English :P If anyone is willing to do a ~real~ translation, I will happily replace this with yours. :) )

Die Mannschaft won against Austria (oh, what a surprise, hahaha!). Mesut was on fire!! And Lukas scored. Everything is perfect and nothing hurt.


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Wolfsburg - Thomas Hitzlsperger is back in the Bundesliga. The 52-time Germany international signed for VfL Wolfsburg on Wednesday evening having recently been released by English Premier League club West Ham United ( Read more... )

Am Ostersonntag um 17 Uhr wurde Per zum ersten Mal Vater - wir gratulieren von ganzem Herzen! Das Kind ist ein Junge, der Paul heißt. Bei der Geburt wog er 4.250 Gramm und war 55 Zentimeter lang. Er ist ebenso wohlauf, gesund und munter wie die Mutter und der Vater ( Read more... )