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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  German champions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German champions (in German: Deutsche Meister) is the general name given to winners of a bundesliga (national league) sporting competition in Germany.
In football, the German champions are determined in the football Bundesliga.
The German championship in American Football, is determined in the German Football League, by the winner of the German Bowl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_champions   (135 words)

  
 Bundesliga (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Football was re-organized into sixteen Gaue, or regions, in the Gauliga, which was in place from 1933 to 1945.
During the war, football was used as a morale booster for the population and was supported by the regime.
In 2005, German soccer was once again overshadowed by the discovery of a match-fixing scandal involving second division referee Robert Hoyzer, who confessed to fixing and betting on matches in the 2.Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokals (DFB or German Cup), and the Regionalliga (III).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bundesliga_(football)   (5261 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut USA - The Arts - Design and Fashion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To date, the German public has been largely unaware of the fact that the German women’s soccer team are big players in the world of women’s football.
The fact that Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, President of the German Football Association, travelled to California to see the Women’s World Cup Final, although the deciding game in the men’s European Cup was being played in Hamburg on Saturday, must be seen as a positive signal of the growing interest in the achievements of the women’s team.
German coach Tina Theune-Meyer, the first woman to lead a team to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup, has called for the German women’s league to be professionalised in order to further improve the conditions for women’s football.
www.goethe.de /ins/us/kug/kue/des/en62417.htm   (658 words)

  
 German Football League VFB Stuttgart
And in the 1970s they were the runners up of the German Championship in 1979 but they were the German under 19 champion in 1973 and 1975.
The clubs great form continued as they won the titles of German under 19 champions in 1990 and retaining this title the following year, German champions and German Supercup winners in 1992, the club was the German under 16 champions in 1994 and retained it the following year.
The stadium was built in 1933 for the German Gymnastics festival and in 1993 the stadium was called The Neckarstadion and was renamed Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion Stuttgart.
www.britain.tv /sports_football_german_stuttgart.shtml   (419 words)

  
 FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
German Birgit Prinz (R) and China's Jie Li fight for the ball in a friendly soccer match in Fuerth 04 March 2004.
Five months ahead of the Olympic tournament in Athens there was no denying China deserved their win, but even if the German team was not yet at its imposing best, the event served to underline the continuing and uninterrupted boom in German women's football.
Everyone in Germany is talking about women's football: Künzer's header was voted "Goal of the Year 2003" and the team became the first women's side ever to claim the long-running Team of the Year accolade.
www.fifa.com /print/article/0,4039,74466,00.html   (727 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Soccer - Germany: Elber sees Bayern return to winning ways - Wednesday July 17, 2002 12:40 PM
Elber said champions Dortmund and Schalke would prove the toughest to beat but did not write off Bayer Leverkusen, last season's eternal runners-up after reaching the finals of the Champions League and German Cup and who were just pipped by Dortmund to the championship.
German media group KirchMedia is considering allocating more of its soccer content to its sports channel DSF to strengthen the station's appeal to viewers.
In Germany live football is screened in full on pay television, while highlights are shown in football shows on KirchMedia's Sat.1 channel and others on ARD and ZDF.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/07/17/german_rdp   (1120 words)

  
 Football | Women's football
Frankfurt is the spiritual home of German women's football; Monika Staab's team hold almost permanent office as the German champions.
They won the inaugural Uefa Women's Cup in 2002 and six of the German side that won the World Cup in the United States last month are on their squad list.
When the world champions returned home, it was to Frankfurt that they flew and were subsequently met by 8,000 admirers at the town hall.
football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4788158-111275,00.html   (308 words)

  
 German football/soccer: German Bundesliga 2005/2006 season preview
Seven players have left the German champions, who want to limit their roster in the future to 22 mans.
Still, Magath, the German Manager of the Year, believes his team is stronger with the additions of Valerien Ismael, Philipp Lahm and Ali Karimi, the Asian Player of the Year.
The German League Cup is the lucrative pre-season tournament for the top six finishers of the last Bundesliga season, with 1.8 million euros on offer for the winner.
www.betinf.com /prev_germany.htm   (1673 words)

  
 Football - Champions League - Eurosport
Bayern captain Oliver Kahn says the German champions need to play the "game of their lives" against Milan on Wednesday to progress.
Lyon coach Gérard Houllier is calling on his team to seize control of their Champions League tie against PSV as the French champions aim to book their place in the quarter-finals for the third season running.
The defending champions lost 1-0 to a late goal in Portugal, but the Spaniard is confident his strikers will do the business, despite a lack of goals of late.
www.eurosport.com /football/sport_sto846930.shtml   (407 words)

  
 Lyon draw with Bayern
Makaay had struck after 25 minutes to put the German champions in control, but his single goal was not enough for them to withstand a late battering as Lyon threw everything at them in the final minutes.
Makaay's slick strike came at the end of a razor-sharp passing move and sparked a spell of dominant football from the German side who might have added a further goal in the second half when Roque Santa Cruz wasted a clear opening by firing against a post from only 10 metres.
Lyon played a lot of skilful attacking football, but were unable to break down the well-organised and more powerful German side, who survived several scares and goalmouth scrambles, until the final minutes when Luyindula broke through.
www.rediff.com /sports/2003/oct/22bayern.htm   (691 words)

  
 German Football League Borussia Dortmund
And in the seasons of 1956 and 1957 BVB were consecutive German champions with the same team.
Then two years later in 1963 they were the last German champions of the ‘old era’ beating FC Cologne 3-1.
From 1993 to 1998 saw Borussia Dortmund’s under 17 be German champions in 1993, 1996 and 1998 and the clubs under 19 team be German champions in 1994 to 1998 as well.
www.britain.tv /sports_football_german_borussia_dortmund.shtml   (640 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Soccer - Germany: Dortmund seek to cut players' wages - Monday July 22, 2002 12:09 PM
Posted: Monday July 22, 2002 12:09 PM BERLIN (Reuters) -- German Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund are looking to compensate for reduced television income by persuading their players to accept a wage cut, German sports agency SID said on Monday.
A cut in the TV income was expected to affect Germany's smaller professional clubs, which rely on television fees for up to 60 percent of their income.
The German defender was forced to bow out of the Liverpool side in August last year after he was diagnosed with Guillan-Barre Syndrome, which attacks the nervous system.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/07/22/german_rdp   (930 words)

  
 Expatica's German news in English: East German football's comeback
Financial consolidation is underway at the favourite club of the deceased boss of the feared East German secret police, Erich Mielke, with club president Mike Peters claiming his small knowledge of the game was a blessing in disguise when he took over in 2002.
Magdeburg were the only East German club to hold aloft a European trophy when they won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1974.
After amassing debts of EUR 8 million the long-term plan of the fourth-division team is a return to pro football by 2008.
www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=53&story_id=6401   (621 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Europe | Keeper Kahn ponders move to Japan
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn is considering leaving the German champions for a Japanese club.
The 36-year-old's contract expires at the end of the season and he is set to hold talks over his future this winter.
German international Michael Ballack is also still to decide whether he will extend his contract beyond the end of the season.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/europe/4367086.stm   (187 words)

  
 channel4.com - Football Italia
Inter held off German Champions Werder Bremen to maintain their unbeaten record with an Obafemi Martins equaliser.
The Nerazzurri were already qualified top of their Group going into this tie and were without the suspended Adriano for the first time in Europe.
German Champions Werder Bremen would be automatically through if they won this match, or if Valencia failed to beat Anderlecht in tonight's other Group G encounter.
www.channel4.com /sport/football_italia/eurogames/wer-inter.html   (408 words)

  
 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 24 - LaGrand Case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery that led to a death.
Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him.
May 26 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona, beating Bayern Munich to lift their third major trophy in their unprecedented Treble, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999   (5144 words)

  
 Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1982, he joined the prestigious German club of Bayern Munich, helping them three times to the title of German champions.
Jean-Marie Pfaff was selected 64 times to the national team and played with the Red Devils in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups (which came to a climax in a legendary semi final) and in the European Championships in 1980 (when the Red Devils reached the final) and in 1984.
With the German club he went on to win three championships (1985, 1986 and 1987) and two German cups (1984 and 1986).
www.belgium.be /eportal/application?languageParameter=en&pageid=contentPage&docId=7843   (463 words)

  
 Top Bettings - Home Page
For instance, American football games are often decided by 3 points (the amount awarded for a field goal) or 7 points (the amount awarded for a touchdown with a successful extra-point attempt).
Snai, which organises betting on Italian football, said later it had registered suspiciously heavy betting on the result and many of the bets were for a 1-0 halftime score and a fulltime score of 1-1.
In early 2005, the German Football Association (DFB) revealed that referee Robert Hoyzer was under investigation for suspected betting on a first-round German Cup tie between regional league side Paderborn and Bundesliga club Hamburger SV in August 2004, and possibly fixing the match.
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 Soccer News of Wednesday, 23 May 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
That is to win the European Champions League trophy after making the final stage twice and the semi-finals once in three years.
Whiles helping the Germans to shed their so close, yet so far tag is a huge motivation, Kuffour has made no secret of why he needs the champions League trophy badly.
Still it is likely a lot of Ghanaians would wish Bayern beat Valencia not because they love the German champions so much but because one of their countrymen would be on parade for Bayern.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/soccer/artikel.php?ID=15445   (614 words)

  
 Kahn may move to Japan - News from Football.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bayern Munich's veteran goalkeeper Oliver Kahn is pondering a switch away from the German champions to Japan next summer.
He is due to hold talks with Bayern this winter before deciding where his future lies but it has been revealed by the club's hierarchy that several Japanese clubs would be interested in signing the keeper.
Kahn, who has won six Bundesliga titles, four German Cups, the 1996 UEFA Cup and the Champions League in 2001, since joining from Karlsruhe in 1994, said: "I have a lot of options and will sit down with Bayern in the winter for discussions."
www.football.co.uk /news/kahn_may_move_to_japan_206341.shtml   (171 words)

  
 IRNA Sports News Digest - Irna
It was revenge for last year's 5-4 aggregate defeat by the Premiership champions and left Liverpool as the only English side to have ever beaten the Catalan giants at home and that was 30 years ago.
Last weekend, while the German champions slumped to their first home league defeat of the season, a 2-1 loss to Hamburg, their Italian rivals racked up their fifth consecutive Serie A win by beating Empoli 3-0.
Thorpe told a news conference in Sydney that he had succumbed to a mystery illness that had plagued him for almost a month before Radcliffe's husband released a statement in Britain saying she was withdrawing because of a bruised foot.
www.irna.ir /en/news/view/line-19/0603087655170504.htm   (1202 words)

  
 History of the World Cup, Champions League, Copa Libertadores, English Premiership, Seria A, and more (soccer, calcio, ...
Defending champions Sao Paulo are still on track to repeat their success after successfully navigating the group Stage of the 2006 Copa Libertadores.
European champions FC Porto have defeated South American champions Once Caldas on penalties for the 2004 Toyota Cup, the yearly so-called intercontinental club championship.
Greece are the unlikely new champions of Europe, having humbled giant after giant at the 2004 European Championships in Portugal.
www.histora.org /cgi-bin/home   (1438 words)

  
 The Germany Game
Once the voice in his ear had explained to Nicky that the message was asking about a football match in a place called Glasgow, I must admit he did try to help but somehow it all went wrong...
I have carefully reviewed the German original of the interview and there is an interesting addition which seems to have been omitted from the English translation.
First off, in the spirit that is needed to rejuvenate Scottish football, I would like to congratulate Maurice Ross of Rangers on his best performance yet for Scotland.
radio.weblogs.com /0124611/stories/2003/06/09/theGermanyGame.html   (2030 words)

  
 ESPN.com - SOCCER - German Football Association favors Voeller
The German Football Association (DFB) said on Saturday it had dissolved a handshake agreement to hire Daum as national trainer from mid-2001 after the shocking drugs test result.
German narcotics laws prescribe a jail sentence of up to five years or a fine for anybody found guilty of dealing in or producing illegal drugs, although consumption of drugs such as cocaine or marijuana is not punishable.
Daum volunteered to take the drugs test to clear his name after allegations about his private life sparked calls for him not to be given the job of Germany trainer next year.
espn.go.com /soccer/news/2000/1023/834149.html   (561 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News for Tuesday February 6, 2001
The football world has been warned that it has just 10 days to agree a transfer system that meets with European Commission approval or face meltdown.
The elite football leagues of Europe emerged from more than five hours of talks and announced their backing for a 10-point plan for the future of the transfer system.
FIFA and UEFA repeated their call on Tuesday that players should only be allowed to move a maximum of once a year as the deadline approaches for a new deal on transfer rules with the European Commission.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0206   (546 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Football | Champions League | German press hail 'wonderful' Bayer
Bayer Leverkusen are convinced they are closing in on the Champions League final after their 2-2 draw with Manchester United last night - and the German press agree with them.
Coach Klaus Toppmoeller's team, who have not won a trophy since lifting the German Cup in 1993, are now on course for an historic treble.
No German club, Bayern Munich included, have ever won the domestic league and cup as well as Europe's premier title in the same season.
football.guardian.co.uk /Champions_League/Story/0,5764,690416,00.html   (384 words)

  
 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Champions League Group G — German champions a big price — Coral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Football is the winner in tonights Champions League Final
German champions Werder Bremen are a big price to win Group G at 9/2 with slight doubts about Valencia (5/4) and Inter Milan (11/8).
The importance of Hillsborough, the importance of football
www.squarefootball.net /article/betting.asp?bid=605   (459 words)

  
 Football - Bayern struggle to find replacement - Eurosport
German giants Bayern Munich are struggling to find a suitable replacement for midfielder Michael Ballack.
Dutch midfielder Mark van Bommel's decision to spurn Bayern's efforts to lure him away from Barcelona to replace the Chelsea-bound Ballack is the latest setback for the German champions.
Ballack's agent Michael Becker said recently the Germany captain was still pained by the disrespectful treatment he got from Bayern officials when he lost form in 2004.
www.eurosport.co.uk /football/sport_sto877942.shtml   (488 words)

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