Bundesliga Playing Schedule 2010/2011 Released

Sabena332 · Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:41 pm

Hi all,

The DFL just released the Bundesliga playing schedule for the upcoming season. The opening game will be on Friday, 20 August at 20:30h and Bayern Munich will welcome the VfL Wolfsburg in the Allianz Arena in Munich.

The other 1. Bundesliga games of the first matchday:

HSV - FC Schalke 04
1899 Hoffenheim - Werder Bremen
Borussia Mönchengladbach - 1. FC Nürnberg
1. FC Köln - 1. FC Kaiserslautern
SC Freiburg - FC St. Pauli
Hannover 96 - Eintracht Frankfurt
1. FSV Mainz 05 - VfB Stuttgart
Borussia Dortmund - Bayer Leverkusen

The complete schedule of the 1. Bundesliga is here.

The complete schedule of the 2. Bundesliga is here.

Patrick

aviationmaster · Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:47 pm

Some great games for the first matchday! Can't wait for the new season to start!

Has it been confirmed if Raul is leaving Real for Schalke 04?

Sabena332 · Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:12 pm

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 1):
Some great games for the first matchday!

I agree. I can't wait to watch Bayern-Wolfsburg on Friday, then HSV-Schalke and the other games on Saturday and on Sunday I'll finally go again to the Westfalenstadion to watch BVB-Leverkusen. Sounds like a great weekend to me.

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 1):
Can't wait for the new season to start!

Same here, the summer break always feels like it is endless.

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 1):
Has it been confirmed if Raul is leaving Real for Schalke 04?

Schalke only needs his signature under the contract according to the Bild, they were also reporting that Misimovic is probably coming to Schalke.

I also read in the latest print edition of the Kicker that the VfL Bochum is interested in some player from the North Korean national team, I forgot the guy's name but his nickname is apparently "Asia's Beckham".

Patrick

fraspotter · Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:00 am

Glad that 1. F.C. Kaiserslautern made it back to 1. Bundesliga after a few seasons in the 2nd tier group... Now lets hope it lasts awhile...

DAL767400ER · Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:40 am

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 2):
I agree. I can't wait to watch Bayern-Wolfsburg on Friday,

Same here, especially considering how almost all of Bayern's normal starting line-up is still in South Africa. And judging by van Gaal usually using players who are the fittest and not necessarily the biggest names, I'd expect this line-up for Bayern against Wolfsburg:

Kraft
-
Braafheid
Breno
van Buyten
Contento
-
Ribery (hey, he went home early)
Altintop
Tymosh...
Pranjic
Alaba
-
Olic

Exiting line-up, right

?

Sabena332 · Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:04 pm

Quoting FRAspotter (Reply 3):
Glad that 1. F.C. Kaiserslautern made it back to 1. Bundesliga after a few seasons in the 2nd tier group...

I am also glad that 'Lautern is back in the 1. Bundesliga together with the FC St. Pauli.

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 4):
Exiting line-up, right?

Indeed! And such a line-up doesn't only have to play on the first matchday of the Bundesliga, there is also the Supercup and DFB Pokal before.

Patrick

Edit:

And now it is official, the VfL Bochum hired the North Korean national player Jong Tae-Se. More info here.

[Edited 2010-07-09 11:13:03]

Severnaya · Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:22 pm

And if we may believe Bild, Ajax & Bayern have agreed on the transfer of Vd Wiel for a sum of 15-20 million euros.

Vd Wiel is only deciding after the World Cup, but I'd guess he'd go.

Don't buy the whole Ajax team empty please, I can see Stekelenburg and Suarez go already. Anyway, good luck in the Bundesliga, a very strong competition where he'll face stronger strikers than in the Eredivisie, thus making him better.

Edit: spelling

[Edited 2010-07-09 12:07:00]

Sabena332 · Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:31 pm

Quoting severnaya (Reply 6):
And if we may believe Bild, Ajax & Bayern have agreed on the transfer of Vd Wiel for a sum of 15-20 million euros.

It is apparently true, several German sports newspapers (Kicker, Revier-Sport) are reporting the same. It is a smart move to buy an additional top player, Bayern has a lot of upcoming games in three competitions (Bundesliga, German Cup, and Champions League) and I am sure that van Gaal wants to win all of them in the upcoming season.

Patrick

DAL767400ER · Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:34 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 7):
It is a smart move to buy an additional top player,

Indeed, especially seeing as how this will allow Lahm to move back to the left side and replace Contento/Braafheid/Pranjic/whoever else and finally give Ribery a back-up player that can actually support him in the offense as well, which hopefully means Ribery will be back in old shape. And on the right side, you'd have the Oranje-Express with van der Wiel and Arjen "Ich ziehe auch diese Saison wieder in die Mitte und schieß etliche Traumtore" Robben

.

Sabena332 · Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:02 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 8):
especially seeing as how this will allow Lahm to move back to the left side and replace Contento/Braafheid/Pranjic/whoever else and finally give Ribery a back-up player that can actually support him in the offense as well, which hopefully means Ribery will be back in old shape. And on the right side, you'd have the Oranje-Express with van der Wiel and Arjen "Ich ziehe auch diese Saison wieder in die Mitte und schieß etliche Traumtore" Robben

I predict world-class games from Bayern when it will come like this!

Good that Lufthansa is a Bayern sponsor, I guess I will blow 20.000 miles for a ticket to watch a top Bundesliga game or a Champions League game in the Allianz Arena in the upcoming season.

Patrick

LTU932 · Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:10 pm

I'm looking forward to matchday 4, when we can destroy the HSV at the Millerntor.

And for the record, I want to try everything so I can be at the derby next winter, with the FC St. Pauli in the Auswärtsblock in the Arena.

Sabena332 · Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:23 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 10):
I'm looking forward to matchday 4, when we can destroy the HSV at the Millerntor.

On the 4th matchday is also Schalke vs. Dortmund. I hope to get a ticket for the game.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 10):
And for the record, I want to try everything so I can be at the derby next winter, with the FC St. Pauli in the Auswärtsblock in the Arena.

Are you club member or member of a Pauli fan club? It not, it will be hard to impossible to get tickets for the game. I will not know how many people want to watch the first Hamburger derby after so many years.

Patrick

By the way, the World Cup is almost over but we don't have to pass on football next week because there are a few test-games:

Monday: 18:30 Uhr, SPORT1: Testspiel: SV Werder Bremen - KFC Uerdingen (Live)
Tuesday: 19:15 Uhr, SPORT1: Testsspiel. SF Lotte Osnabrück - Borussia Dortmund (Live)
Wednesday: 20:25 Uhr, SPORT1: Testspiel: Hajduk Split - Hamburger SV (Live)

LTU932 · Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:15 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 11):
Are you club member or member of a Pauli fan club? It not, it will be hard to impossible to get tickets for the game.

Indeed, but I'm still hopeful to get one eventually.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 11):
By the way, the World Cup is almost over but we don't have to pass on football next week because there are a few test-games:

Even if I had Sport1, I couldn't watch them anyway because I have late shifts. I prefer to work lateshifts though.

Sabena332 · Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:08 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 12):
Indeed, but I'm still hopeful to get one eventually.

Try eBay a few weeks before the game, it is a good place to get tickets for games that are officially sold-out, they are very expensive though.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 12):
Even if I had Sport1, I couldn't watch them anyway because I have late shifts.

Oh, I forgot that you can't receive Sport1. It is beyond me that they didn't broadcast via DVB-T! You get all sort of rubbish channels but not a decent sports channel.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 12):
I prefer to work lateshifts though.

Too bad that I don't have the choice anymore since I have an office job. When I served my civil service, I always took the lateshift on Tuesdays... a few friends and me used to meet every Monday night in a bar to watch 2. Liga and to play Skat, I could stay there and have a few drinks until 1am and was totally fit on the next day because I could sleep till noon.

Patrick

LTU932 · Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:47 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 13):
Try eBay a few weeks before the game, it is a good place to get tickets for games that are officially sold-out, they are very expensive though.

That's the thing. I want to save some money to buy myself a new computer.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 13):
It is beyond me that they didn't broadcast via DVB-T! You get all sort of rubbish channels but not a decent sports channel.

Here in Hamburg, they show crap such as Bibel TV and 9Live, yet I'd prefer to change them with additional Dritte Programme (specifically HR, RBB, SWF and SR). Curiously enough, I have duplicate channels as well, a few other "regional" versions of the NDR, MDR, WDR and BR. I mean, I pay a shitload of money to the thieves at the GEZ, and can't even get all Dritte Programme, plus other of the digital programmes from ARD like EinsFestival and EinsPlus.

Sabena332 · Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:10 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 14):
Here in Hamburg, they show crap such as Bibel TV and 9Live

Two channels nobody needs! Why not simply replace one of them with Sport1?

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 14):
I pay a shitload of money to the thieves at the GEZ, and can't even get all Dritte Programme, plus other of the digital programmes from ARD like EinsFestival and EinsPlus.

What a joke!

Patrick

LTU932 · Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:53 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 15):
Why not simply replace one of them with Sport1?

From what I see, Sport1 is NOT available in ANY DVB-T region. Maybe the owners (ProSiebenSat1?) don't want to pay the necessary fees so their channel is available on DVB-T, or simply want to "encourage" people to pay for their expensive programming via Cable and Internet. Yet we get Bibel TV, something only religious fanatics would watch, and 9Live which is either bad erotic videos, some weird teleshopping, and of course their Abzocke.

It's still a mistery why the LMA in charge of supervising 9Live hasn't forced them out. Even Kanal Telemedial was forced out of the air quicker (though despite the fact that the Channel was from Germany, it was broadcast with an Austrian licence, and it was the Austrians who pulled the plug on Kanal Telemedial). But that's a different story...

Sabena332 · Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:23 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 16):
From what I see, Sport1 is NOT available in ANY DVB-T region.

That is correct.

And by the way, Sport1 didn't show the Werder test-game yesterday evening, instead they showed World Cup classics. I really hope that they will show the Osnabrück-BVB game this evening despite I can only watch the second half.

Patrick

Sabena332 · Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:10 pm

Wow, the Spanish sports newspaper Marca is reporting that Sami Khedira is going from the VfB Stuttgart to Real Madrid. When it is true, than I can only say: "Have fun on the bench!".

Patrick

Sabena332 · Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:15 pm

The DFL published the exact kick-off times for the first three matchdays:

-> 1. Bundesliga
-> 2. Bundesliga

Patrick

LTU932 · Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:50 pm

It just happens that during my days off, there's the Supercup! I didn't really know that, so I hope the Supercup will be on ARD or ZDF (just as long as we don't have to put up with Katrin Müller-Hohenstein, Oliver Kahn and Béla Réthy

).

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:18 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 20):
It just happens that during my days off, there's the Supercup! I didn't really know that, so I hope the Supercup will be on ARD or ZDF

I have no clue either where they will show it, I looked on the ARD and ZDF websites but their program schedule for August is not published yet. I only know that kick-off is at 17:45h already, that sucks big time IMO. Why not a 20:30h kick-off time?

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 20):
just as long as we don't have to put up with Katrin Müller-Hohenstein, Oliver Kahn and Béla Réthy

Kahn and KMH only analyze games of our national team but Rethy could be the commentator when the ZDF will show the game.

By the way, the radio station L1VE called KMH "Oli Kahns Dompteurin" in a comedy lately.

Patrick

yooyoo · Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:39 pm

I'm thinking of getting a authentic Frankfurt jersey this year. Where do you guys buy your shirts and or other team "stuff"?

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:58 pm

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 22):
Where do you guys buy your shirts and or other team "stuff"?

The official fan shops of the clubs are the best places to buy jerseys IMO (click here for the Eintracht's shop). Another shop that is worth a look is this one: http://www.fanandmore.de/fussballportal (you get almost every football jersey you want there).

While we are at it... Bastian Schweinsteiger was seen while playing football with a few friends in Munich's Englischer Garten last week. Now guess what jersey he was wearing.... it was Lampard's jersey from the World Cup game vs. England, both swapped their jerseys after the game. At least is Schweinsteiger wearing his collected jerseys, all of mine are hanging here at home and nobody except me and my girlfriend is allowed to touch them. Wink

Patrick

[Edited 2010-07-17 13:08:08]

yooyoo · Sun Jul 18, 2010 2:12 pm

Thanks Patrick.
What does this mean?
*Preise inkl. Mwst., zzgl. Versandkosten.
Diese betragen:
◦innerhalb Deutschlands 6.00 €,
◦in EU-Länder 8.50 €,
◦in nicht-EU Länder Europas 12.50 €,
◦in andere Länder 45.00 €,
je Versandstück bis 30 kg

45 euros added to the price of thje shirt if sent to a country outside of Europe?????

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 23):
Bastian Schweinsteiger was seen while playing football with a few friends in Munich's Englischer Garten last week. Now guess what jersey he was wearing.... it was Lampard's jersey from the World Cup game vs. England

I always wondered what they did with their jerseys, if they actually save them or chuck them in a box in the garage?

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 23):
all of mine are hanging here at home and nobody except me and my girlfriend is allowed to touch them

Are they framed and can people see them?

I have a signed jersey from the 94 GErman world cup team, they trained near Toronto before the tournament. I have it in a box and i should have it framed and put on display.

Sabena332 · Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:46 pm

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 24):
What does this mean?
*Preise inkl. Mwst., zzgl. Versandkosten.
Diese betragen:
◦innerhalb Deutschlands 6.00 €,
◦in EU-Länder 8.50 €,
◦in nicht-EU Länder Europas 12.50 €,
◦in andere Länder 45.00 €,
je Versandstück bis 30 kg

45 euros added to the price of thje shirt if sent to a country outside of Europe?????

Yes, that means indeed that you have to pay 45 EUR shipping fee. This is friggin' outrageous! Last year I ordered a pair of Nike SBs from the USA and I only paid approx. 25 USD shipping fee (and a pair of shoes is heavier and bigger than a football jersey).

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 24):
Are they framed and can people see them?

They are not framed, I have a lot of them and it would be too expensive to buy a frame for every of them. They are hanging on clothes hangers in the room that we use as our office. I am looking forward to next week, then I'll get two very special jerseys: Nelson Valdez's jersey that he wore in the World Cup game vs. New Zealand and Lucas Barrios' jersey that he wore in the World Cup game vs. Slovakia. My first "match-worn" jerseys from a national team.

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 24):
I have a signed jersey from the 94 GErman world cup team, they trained near Toronto before the tournament. I have it in a box and i should have it framed and put on display.

You should definitely put it on Display, it is something special, fanatics would offer you several hundreds of Euros for that!

Patrick

yooyoo · Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:12 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 25):
Yes, that means indeed that you have to pay 45 EUR shipping fee.

so i did read that correctly. That's more than the shirt!!.....well, there goes that idea.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 25):
Nelson Valdez's jersey that he wore in the World Cup game vs. New Zealand and Lucas Barrios' jersey that he wore in the World Cup game vs. Slovakia. My first "match-worn" jerseys from a national team

That is very special, you lucky bugger !

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 25):
You should definitely put it on Display, it is something special, fanatics would offer you several hundreds of Euros for that!

The only not to sign it was Klinsmann

Sabena332 · Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:59 am

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 26):
That's more than the shirt!!

Indeed! As I wrote, it is damned outrageous to demand a shipping fee of 45 EUR for a football jersey.

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 26):
The only not to sign it was Klinsmann

The jersey is actually worth more without his signature.

Patrick

PS: I just realized that I have to wait one month more until Bundesliga starts again! At least there are a few test-games and tournaments this week.

yooyoo · Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:16 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 27):
The jersey is actually worth more without his signature

ouch

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 27):
PS: I just realized that I have to wait one month more until Bundesliga starts again! At least there are a few test-games and tournaments this week

The start of the season will come. I'm hoping to stay more "in touch" with the Bundesliga this year than i have in the past. I'm going to try and stay on top of the players, coaches, movements between teams just like i do with my beloved NHL.

Sabena332 · Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:54 pm

Quoting yooyoo (Reply 28):
I'm hoping to stay more "in touch" with the Bundesliga this year than i have in the past. I'm going to try and stay on top of the players, coaches, movements between teams just like i do with my beloved NHL.

I know that it is quite complicated to stay in touch with sports leagues from other countries when you don't have expensive pay-tv. I wish I could see more of the Premier League instead of a only 45 minute lasting summary every Monday night. The Primera Division is a league they don't show at all in the German free-tv, I have to watch the games of my beloved FC Barca via internet stream (in more or less the worst quality).

Patrick

PS: Something interesting for all German members, the tv-station HR will show the opening game of the 3. Liga live on Friday night at 20:15h. I am really looking forward to another Friday night live game. My girly is at her volleyball training so I can sit here with a few beers while watching the game and relaxing after a week of work.

Sabena332 · Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:24 pm

I can't believe it, Schalke 04 has hired Raul from Real Madrid, click here for a press release on their website. It is beyond me how someone can go from Real to Schalke, they must give him a shitload of money. And even with Raul, this will be another season with everyone else as champion in the end but not Schalke.

Some sad news: Karl-Heinz Wildmoser - ex president of 1860 Munich - has died today.

Patrick

aviationmaster · Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:02 pm

"16 Titel in 16 Jahren – Rauls Pokalsammlung"

I just saw that on the Schalke webpage. Naja, jede Serie geht einmal zu Ende.

Sabena332 · Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:24 pm

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 31):
Naja, jede Serie geht einmal zu Ende.

For Schalke it will be as always at the end of the upcoming season:

- no German Championship
- no Pokalsieger
- out of the Champions League after the preliminary round

Patrick

PS: Anyone interested in a Tippspiel? I will look in the upcoming days if Sportschau.de has one online already.

LTU932 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:17 am

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 30):
I can't believe it, Schalke 04 has hired Raul from Real Madrid, click here for a press release on their website. It is beyond me how someone can go from Real to Schalke, they must give him a shitload of money.

And here's the big question: How the hell can Schlacke afford Raúl, being constantly close to a total Bankrott as they are?

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 30):
Some sad news: Karl-Heinz Wildmoser - ex president of 1860 Munich - has died today.

Massive pulmonary embolism is said to be the cause of death. Pretty much the same thing my father almost died of, but he was pretty damn lucky, unlike Wildmoser. For something like this to happen after surgery, something must have gone wrong with the blood thinners (either the anticoagulants were bad, or they took him off the blood thinners too quickly). There's no joking with that in terms of what can go wrong after surgery, especially with the fact that cheap medication is used for cost cutting measures by hospitals and physicians.

May he rest in peace.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 32):
For Schalke it will be as always at the end of the upcoming season:

- no German Championship
- no Pokalsieger
- out of the Champions League after the preliminary round

Don't forget: No Supercup either.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 32):
PS: Anyone interested in a Tippspiel? I will look in the upcoming days if Sportschau.de has one online already.

Sportschau.de can't do one anymore because of the current Rundfunk-Staatsvertrag. But the website where the Tippspiel used to be, www.tippklick.de, is still there, but they're starting the Tippspiel in mid-august. But if you organise one, I'm definitely in. BTW: Where has Konstantinos gone recently?

aviationmaster · Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:21 am

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 32):
PS: Anyone interested in a Tippspiel? I will look in the upcoming days if Sportschau.de has one online already.

I'm definately in.

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 32):
For Schalke it will be as always at the end of the upcoming season:

- no German Championship
- no Pokalsieger
- out of the Champions League after the preliminary round

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
Don't forget: No Supercup either.

If there is one team you can always count on ... failing, then its Schalke.

Sabena332 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:34 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
And here's the big question: How the hell can Schlacke afford Raúl, being constantly close to a total Bankrott as they are?

I am asking myself the same. A few months ago they were with 234 million EUR in debt and now they can pay Raul 6 million EUR per year.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
Don't forget: No Supercup either.

Oh yes, Supercup is Saturday in one week. The first title for Bayern.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
Sportschau.de can't do one anymore because of the current Rundfunk-Staatsvertrag.

It is so utterly ridiculous that the public-law tv and radio stations have to reduce their internet offerings.

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
But if you organise one, I'm definitely in.

Cool, I will set up a team as soon as it is possible!

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 33):
BTW: Where has Konstantinos gone recently?

On vacation? Long time ago that I saw him here or on Facebook. Hopefully he will be back in time for the upcoming season.

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 34):
I'm definately in.

Cool!

Quoting aviationmaster (Reply 34):
If there is one team you can always count on ... failing, then its Schalke.

The best is that they claim that they will become champion till matchday #30, then goes everything down the drain because they always leave points at world-class clubs like VfL Bochum or Mainz 05.

I really hope that we can say after matchday #30 "Here we go again, Schalke".

Patrick

DAL767400ER · Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:41 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 35):
Oh yes, Supercup is Saturday in one week. The first title for Bayern.

Only if Bayern can get enough players ready, I'm not sure the docs are officially licensed to play for them

.

Sabena332 · Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:47 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 36):
Only if Bayern can get enough players ready, I'm not sure the docs are officially licensed to play for them

What happened there? I heard something on the radio today but I didn't listen carefully enough because I had to concentrate on the traffic beside. Has van Gaal changed a player for a guy of his coaching team during a game?

Patrick

DAL767400ER · Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:21 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 37):
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 36):
Only if Bayern can get enough players ready, I'm not sure the docs are officially licensed to play for them

What happened there? I heard something on the radio today but I didn't listen carefully enough because I had to concentrate on the traffic beside. Has van Gaal changed a player for a guy of his coaching team during a game?

Patrick

Bayern had a test game scheduled last week against the local Trentino team during training camp, and vG didn't have enough actual players for his test, because most players were (are) still on vacation after the World Cup and most amateurs save for 6 were needed for the Bayern II game, so to have enough players, he put the fitness coach (Martins) into the game for the last 20 minutes, with the team doc Hänsel also being available for a substitution, though he wasn't needed. Oh, and goalkeeper Kraft played Innenverteidiger during the second half. Certainly anything but ideal training conditions.

Sabena332 · Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:20 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 38):
so to have enough players, he put the fitness coach (Martins) into the game for the last 20 minutes, with the team doc Hänsel also being available for a substitution, though he wasn't needed. Oh, and goalkeeper Kraft played Innenverteidiger during the second half.

Incredible. Wow!

So I heard right yesterday when there was a report about this game on the radio.

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 38):
Certainly anything but ideal training conditions.

And the shit continues after the 2nd matchday because of a useless friendly game of the national team vs. Denmark. Many Bayern players will be away for a few days and can't come to the training. Uli Hoeness said in the Bild a few weeks ago that the Bayern players should boycott the friendly game and actually I do agree with him. Maybe the guys at the DFB and UEFA will finally wake up then and realize that it is retarded to disturb the national leagues after two matchdays already.

Latest Bundesliga news: Khedira signed a contract at Real Madrid. Apparently they paid 14 million Euros for him. He got a contract till 2015 with a yearly salary of 3 million Euros.

Patrick

PS: There are quite a few test games and tournaments this weekends, an overview:

Today:

18:30 Uhr, SPORT1: Testspiel: FC St. Pauli - Racing Santander (Live)

Tomorrow:

14:15 Uhr, SPORT1: Testspiel: 1. FC Union Berlin - FC Middlesbrough (Live)
15:15 Uhr, NDR: Freundschaftsspiel: Hannover 96 - FC Valencia (Live)
16:30 Uhr, SAT.1: FC Schalke 04 - Hamburger SV (Live)
18:20 Uhr, SAT.1: FC Bayern München - 1. FC Köln (Live)

Sunday:

14:15 Uhr, SAT.1: 110. Geburtstag Borussia Mönchengladbach. Borussia Mönchengladbach - FC Liverpool (Live)
16:30 Uhr, SAT.1: Turnier in Gelsenkirchen. Spiel um Platz 3 (Live)
16:30 Uhr, HR: Freundschaftsspiel Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Chelsea (Live)
18:20 Uhr, SAT.1: Turnier in Gelsenkirchen. Finale (Live)

And from Monday on there will be Bundesliga-Aktuell again, daily at 18:30h

LTU932 · Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:37 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 39):
And the shit continues after the 2nd matchday because of a useless friendly game of the national team vs. Denmark. Many Bayern players will be away for a few days and can't come to the training. Uli Hoeness said in the Bild a few weeks ago that the Bayern players should boycott the friendly game and actually I do agree with him. Maybe the guys at the DFB and UEFA will finally wake up then and realize that it is retarded to disturb the national leagues after two matchdays already.

In all fairness, it isn't the DFB and the UEFA who makes the schedule, they simply give their blessing to it. The people responsible are in Zürich, at the headquarters of FIFA, under the service of Joseph Septic Blatter. FIFA does the schedues, and the federations are bound to stick to it.

In Latin America, that's the reason why those appointments are called "Fechas FIFA" (FIFA matchdays). FIFA is overloading the schedules without taking into account continental competitions like the Copa Sudamericana in South America, the Champions League and Europaleague in Europe, and without allowing the national leagues to properly conclude preseason and get a decent start into e.g. the Bundesliga.

DAL767400ER · Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:02 am

I'm gonna say, Bayern won't win the Liga-Cup:

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Die Saisonvorbereitung beim FC Bayern München steht weiter unter keinem guten Stern. Die elf deutschen und niederländischen WM-Spieler steigen erst am Montag wieder ins Training ein. Aber auch bei den frühzeitig aus Südafrika heimgekehrten oder ganz zu Hause gebliebenen Profis fehlt der eine oder andere. Gerade einmal 23 Spieler der ersten und der zweiten Mannschaft stehen an diesem Wochenende zur Verfügung, wenn die großen Bayern beim LIGA total! Cup in Gelsenkirchen antreten (das erste Spiel heute gegen den 1. FC Köln ab 18.20 Uhr im t-online.de Live-Ticker) und die kleinen Bayern am Samstag ihr Drittliga-Heimspiel gegen Wacker Burghausen bestreiten.

"Wir müssen die Spieler, die wir haben, verteilen", sagte Trainer Louis van Gaal.

Zu allem Überfluss verletzte sich im Training am Freitag noch Torhüter Thomas Kraft. Die Nummer zwei erlitt eine Schädelprellung und muss für ein paar Tage pausieren. Auch die Rekonvaleszenten Franck Ribéry, Hamit Altintop und Breno haben die Reise nach Gelsenkirchen nicht mit angetreten. Zudem fehlt Daniel van Buyten. Dessen Lebensgefährtin erwartet in diesen Tagen ihr erstes Kind. Um möglichst schnell bei ihr zu sein, spielt van Buyten in der zweiten Mannschaft.

Mit insgesamt 12 Feldspielern, darunter fünf der FCB-Reserve, und zwei Torhütern sind die Münchner am Freitagnachmittag zum LIGA total! Cup aufgebrochen. Die zweite Mannschaft wird mit A-Jugendlichen aufgefüllt. David Alaba soll am Samstagabend nach dem Spiel der zweiten Mannschaft ebenso noch nachreisen wie ein zweiter Torhüter. Van Gaal sieht die ganze Sache aber sportlich: "Dieses Turnier ist seit einem Jahr geplant und wir müssen dieser Verpflichtung nachkommen. Aber dass das schwierig ist, ist auch klar."

Mit einem weiteren Einsatz bei der ersten Mannschaft darf Fitness-Coach Marcelo Martins rechnen. Der Brasilianer, der in seiner Heimat einst in der zweiten Liga gespielt hatte, gab im Trainingslager beim 5:1-Testspiel-Sieg gegen eine Auswahl der Region Trentinoin der 72. Minutesein Debüt im Bayern-Trikot.

This is ridiculous.

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:56 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 40):
In all fairness, it isn't the DFB and the UEFA who makes the schedule, they simply give their blessing to it. The people responsible are in Zürich, at the headquarters of FIFA, under the service of Joseph Septic Blatter. FIFA does the schedues, and the federations are bound to stick to it.

You are right, it's the FIFA.

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 41):
I'm gonna say, Bayern won't win the Liga-Cup

Well, their B Team made it into the final after penalty kicks. I hope that they will make it tomorrow.

Patrick

PS: A friend sent me a text earlier today, he was at the season opening day at Schalke, at first he bought the new Schalke jersey and then he got the original signatures of all players (incl. Raul) on it. I wrote him back that he should bring the jersey to me because I run out of toilet paper.

LTU932 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:59 pm

I saw how Christoph Metzelder made himself popular in Schalke, with his ~~Bock~~ Pass to van Nistelrooy. And the funniest comment from Hansi Küpper was about the BVB Metzelder Fanclub, when he mentioned that after news came in about Metzelder going to Schlacke, that the Fanclub dissolved within seconds after the transfer became public.

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:09 pm

Quoting LTU932 (Reply 43):
And the funniest comment from Hansi Küpper was about the BVB Metzelder Fanclub, when he mentioned that after news came in about Metzelder going to Schlacke, that the Fanclub dissolved within seconds after the transfer became public.

This was indeed the case. Schalke announced at noon that the Metzelder transfer is perfect, the fan club's website was offline at 3pm but online again at 6pm with the remark that the fan club doesn't exist anymore.

Patrick

DAL767400ER · Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:58 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 42):
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 41):
I'm gonna say, Bayern won't win the Liga-Cup

Well, their B Team made it into the final after penalty kicks.

Calling it a B-Team is pretty optimistic, D-Team is more like it

. I mean, look at this line-up:
Sattelmaier - Erb, Haas, Tymoshchuk, Contento - Ottl, Pranjic - Mujic (54. Sansone), Sosa, Olic - Hajdarovic (31. Demichelis)

And now, aparently van Buyten way injured during the amateur game (which he played because the game was in Munich and his wife is in labor), so yet another pro down.

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:47 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
Calling it a B-Team is pretty optimistic, D-Team is more like it

This was indeed a D-Team. When I looked at the line-up, I only thought: "WTF?".

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
Sattelmaier - Erb, Haas, Tymoshchuk, Contento - Ottl, Pranjic - Mujic (54. Sansone), Sosa, Olic - Hajdarovic (31. Demichelis)

Do you think van Gaal had changed Poldi in when he would still play at Bayern?

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
And now, aparently van Buyten way injured during the amateur game (which he played because the game was in Munich and his wife is in labor), so yet another pro down.

Unbelievable. Did the amateur team win at least?

Patrick

DAL767400ER · Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:00 pm

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 46):
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
Sattelmaier - Erb, Haas, Tymoshchuk, Contento - Ottl, Pranjic - Mujic (54. Sansone), Sosa, Olic - Hajdarovic (31. Demichelis)

Do you think van Gaal had changed Poldi in when he would still play at Bayern?

Nah, Poldi would have been with the amateurs from the get-go

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Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 46):
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
And now, aparently van Buyten way injured during the amateur game (which he played because the game was in Munich and his wife is in labor), so yet another pro down.

Unbelievable. Did the amateur team win at least?

Well, until the 89th minute they were

. Oh well, considering they were missing 9 of their regular players as well (5 with the a-team, 4 injured) and that in the 29th minute Gerland had to bring in the backup goalkeeper as a forward for the injured Sene, thus completely emptying the bench...

Sabena332 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:28 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 47):
Nah, Poldi would have been with the amateurs from the get-go

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 47):
Well, until the 89th minute they were

Oh, I know situations like that. My favorite B Kreisliga... errr... now C Kreisliga team is specialized in leading till the 85th minute just to lose the game after the opponent team scores twice or even trice in the last two minutes.

And WTF is that? The Sportstudio finally begun and they don't show football from today at first? Shame on them!

Patrick

LTU932 · Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:32 pm

Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 45):
And now, aparently van Buyten way injured during the amateur game (which he played because the game was in Munich and his wife is in labor), so yet another pro down.

In a way, it's probably his fault as well. If I was him, and I knew my wife (if I ever get to have one) is in labour, then I'd politely tell my manager that my family goes first and I need to be at the hospital with her. I'm sure van Gaal and Gerland would have been sufficiently kulant to let him go.

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