Bundesliga

German U-21 squad:

Goalkeepers:
Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Oliver Baumann (Freiburg), Timo Horn (Köln).

Defenders:
Tony Jantschke (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Stefan Thesker (Hoffenheim), Lasse Sobiech (On loan at Greuther Fürth from Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (Sampdoria), Matthias Ginter (Freiburg), Sead Kolasinac (Schalke 04), Oliver Sorg (Freiburg), Antonio Rüdiger (Stuttgart).

Midfielders:
Sebastian Rudy (Hoffenheim), Patrick Funk (St Pauli), Sebastian Rode (Eintracht Frankfurt), Lewis Holtby (Tottenham Hotspur), Christian Clemens (Köln), Christoph Moritz (Schalke 04), Emre Can (Bayern Munich).

Attackers:
Kevin Volland (Hoffenheim), Peniel Mlapa (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Sebastian Polter (Nürnberg), Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Pierre- Michel Lasogga (Hertha Berlin).

Some 2nd division fan performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF61rJTlZI8
Pretty sick.
If you don't watch it you hate football and abuse little boys.

(I posted this on the Prem page as well...)
Bloody good article on the rise of German football (the Germans know how to run things, so I beg everyone to study their methods closely):

http://www.footytube.com/news/guardian/how-germany-went-from-bust-to-boom-on-the-talent-production-line-L24136

Some absolute gems in there:

"According to Uefa, Germany has 28,400 (England 1,759) coaches with the B licence, 5,500 (895) with the A licence and 1,070 (115) with the Pro licence, the highest qualification."

"Across a sizeable area where they face little competition from other Bundesliga clubs, Freiburg work closely with five amateur feeder teams who receive a part-time coach to train children aged 8 to 11 twice a week. The most promising players are invited to attend the academy during school holidays and for occasional tournaments at weekends. "We believe it is not good for a nine-year-old to play [regularly] for a professional football club because it changes the reasons why he plays football.""

"When I went to Aston Villa eight years ago I told them our players, under-17, 18 and 19, go to school for 34 hours a week," he says. "They said: 'No, you're a liar, it's not possible, our players go for nine hours.' I said: 'No, I'm not lying.' They said: 'It's not possible, you can't train and do 34 hours of education.' I said: 'Sure. And what do you do with the players who have for three years, from the age of 16 to 19, only had nine hours a week of school?
"They said: 'They have to try to be a professional or not. They have to decide.' I said: 'No, we can't do that in Freiburg. It's wrong. Most players in our academy can't be professionals, they will have to look for a job. The school is the most important thing, then comes football.' We give players the best chance to be a footballer but we give them two educations here. If 80% can't go on to play in the professional team, we have to look out for them. The players that play here, the majority of them go on to higher education. And we need intelligent players on the pitch anyway.""

Think German & Bundesliga fans will enjoy this article

http://ocallaghanl.hubpages.com/hub/Luke-OCallaghan

Amazingly honest interview with Klopp:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/21/jurgen-klopp-borussia-dortmund-champions-league

Bundsliga / Germany Football fans
Goodbye
It was great to join the page activity here with you and with your comments , thanks
Have nice summer holidays

the best league on this year 2012/13

Bundesliga is over. Time for the Top XI (XXII) of 2012/2013

Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer/Bayern (Oliver Baumann/SC Freiburg)
Left-back: David Alaba/Bayern (Bastian Oczipka/Frankfurt)
Right-back: Phillip Lahm/Bayern (Daniel Carvajal/Leverkusen)
Centre-back 1: Dante/Bayern (Fallou Diagne/SC Freiburg)
Centre-back 2: Mats Hummels/Dortmund (Carlos Zambrano/Frankfurt)
Def. midfield 1: Javi Martinez/Bayern (Ilkay Gündogan/Dortmund)
Def. midfield 2: B. Schweinsteiger/Bayern (Lars Bender/Leverkusen)
Left midfield: Franck Ribery/Bayern (Marco Reus/Dortmund)
Right midfield: Kuba/Dortmund (Thomas Müller/Bayern)
Off. midfield: Mario Götze/Dortmund (Alex Meier/Frankfurt)
Striker: Robert Lewandowski/Dortmund (Stefan Kießling/Leverkusen)
Coach: Jupp Heynckes/Bayern (Christian Streich/ SC Freiburg)

Wow Fortuna...
Way to mess it up.

Gladbach rising again like the good old days:)

Schalke into CL over Freiburg. A more solid representative imo...