Klopp and Tuchel could lead Germany, Loew saysBorussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp and his Mainz 05 counterpart Thomas Tuchel could one day take over the German soccer team, national coach Joachim Loew said on Monday ( Read more... )

Background: I recently came across some people's comments on Tumblr, who were wondering how come Mesut was awarded an integration Bambi when he's a third generation immigrant. While I agree that the idea of an "integration Bambi" (aka "you're the kind of immigrant we like, here, have a biscuit") is very much discussion worthy, I also suspect there ( Read more... )

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I don't know this is a good place for this topic, but I want to say it everywhere :)
Mario Gomez advises gay footballers to out themselves

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 Hi everybody, I double-checked the rules and read through all the old posts and found none similar to this, so I hope this is allowed, and if it's not I'm going to be very embarrassed....

Anyways, I'm going to be studying abroad next semester (my first time going to Europe, SO excited!) and I'm determined to go to Germany v Kazakhstan on March 26th ( Read more... )

Germany fans may have seemed to be in the minority against Turkey in Berlin, but captain Philipp Lahm was delighted "to celebrate a 3-0 win with those who were here" after another commanding display.


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In 2008, Philipp Lahm gave an interview to gay men's magazine Front about AIDS and homosexuality in football. I translated this article for fandomonymous, and a few others expressed an interest in reading it, so I promised to post it once it was done. It's really realistic; Lahm doesn't deliver any pretences of there being no problems with homophobia in ( Read more... )

Hey guys,

I know most of us at least keep a casual eye on ontd_football, but I thought this was important enough to merit a post of its own, just to make sure everyone hears what's going on. As a proactive reaction to the frequent discussion of homophobic attitudes in professional football and the larger fan community, ONTDFB is beginning to brainstorm a ( Read more... )

Podolski vows to keep place despite Kroos pressure
(AFP) - 6 hours ago

( shit just got real )