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Any American fans with atleast an MLS Team as a second team should come to mls forum i mean i could use some company out there :(
(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.""
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Think German & Bundesliga fans will enjoy this article

http://ocallaghanl.hubpages.com/hub/Luke-OCallaghan
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Amazingly honest interview with Klopp:

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

How about Weidenfeller?
He is number one in CL. He conceded 42 goals. Neuer had a "0-game" 18 times.
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Bayern had a goal difference of EIGHTY. No idea why anyone would argue any of their players being chosen.
Weidenfeller showed his great performances predominantly in the CL. I would go with Neuer, too, when it comes to Bundesliga 12/13.
actually it should be Adler or Trapp !
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Wow Fortuna...
Way to mess it up.
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Gladbach rising again like the good old days:)
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Schalke into CL over Freiburg. A more solid representative imo...
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Freiburg would not have made cl anyway. No loss for them. They will sell players and being with no international ranking they would have needed to face the likes of Arsenal or AC Milan. Not something you can manage once you tear the team apart.
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Background info on Freiburg's season:

http://espnfc.com/columns/story/_/id/1451935/uli-hesse-freiburg-astonishing-rise
34 goals scored on the final matchday.... wow good stuff
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Bundesliga Table

Form
PTS
GD
GA
GF
L
D
W
Pl
Pos
91
80
18
98
1
4
29
34
1
66
39
42
81
6
9
19
34
2
65
26
39
65
7
8
19
34
3
55
8
50
58
11
7
16
34
4
51
5
40
45
11
9
14
34
5
51
3
46
49
11
9
14
34
6
48
-11
53
42
14
6
14
34
7
47
-4
49
45
11
11
12
34
8
45
-2
62
60
15
6
13
34
9
44
-8
47
39
12
11
11
34
10
43
-5
52
47
11
13
10
34
11
43
-18
55
37
15
7
12
34
12
42
-2
44
42
12
12
10
34
13
34
-16
66
50
16
10
8
34
14
33
-18
51
33
17
9
8
34
15
31
-25
67
42
19
7
8
34
16
30
-18
57
39
18
9
7
34
17
21
-34
60
26
21
9
4
34
18
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