The German Women’s Cup (DFB-Pokal der Frauen) will continue with Round 2 fixtures scheduled to take place on Saturday/Sunday, September 8/9. The twelve teams who were part of the 2017/18 Women’s Bundesliga (Allianz Frauen-Bundesliga) season, as well as newly promoted clubs Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Borussia Mönchengladbach were handed a …
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The ‘SportTreff – Business meets Sports’ is set to host its latest edition on Thursday, August 24 at the Butcher’s Sportsbar Cologne from 7.30 to 10.30pm and I look to be a part of it. The topic will be, ‘A 2018 FIFA World Cup look back – The football, the …
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November 2017 marked a milestone for German eSports when Germany’s first ever national eSports Association, the eSports-Bund Deutschland (ESBD) was founded in Frankfurt. Part of its vision was to attain recognition so that eSports could be classified as an official sport. That goal is now closer than ever with Chancellor …
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For years, the Bundesliga was held up as the shining light of how a football league should be run. It went out on its own—certainly when it comes to the world’s major leagues—on things such as club ownership and ticket prices, and the league reaped the awards. Off the pitch, …
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Should the DFB be awarded UEFA EURO 2024 in Nyon on September 27, Philipp Lahm will be in charge of organising the competition in Germany. The long-serving Germany captain and DFB general secretary Dr. Friedrich Curtius both agreed to the long-term collaboration, meaning the current bid ambassador, capped 113 times …
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Germany midfielder and Real Madrid star Toni Kroos has been named the German Footballer of the Year 2017/18, while Dzsenifer Marozsan clinched the German Women’S Footballer of the Year 2017/18 award. Kroos claimed 185 of the 475 votes casted by the members of the Association of German Sports Journalists (VDS) …
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In another first for promoted I-League side Real Kashmir FC, one of its youth teams is set to visit Germany to train at Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund’s Evonik Football School. Real Kashmir FC owners Sandeep Chattoo and Shamim Meraj say they are just “carrying on from where we left” last …
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The German FA (DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund) has issued a statement on Mesut Özil’s retirement from the German national team and the statements posted by the midfielder on Twitter. DFB statement on Mesut Özil The presidential board of the German FA (DFB) addressed Mesut Özil’s announcement during a teleconference today. …
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After much controversy and being quiet for weeks, 2014 FIFA World Cup winner Mesut Özil explained himself on Twitter and retired from Germany’s Die Mannschaft. 29 year old Turkish-origin Gelsenkirchen-born Mesut Özil has mostly allowed his football to do the talking besides showing his life through social media and being …
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One Team. One Dream. Team International Deutschrap celebrates Germany’s hip-hop scene with a jersey that offers Deutschrappers and their community to represent their belonging. No matter where they come from, they are all united by the German language, using their respective family roots and hometown culture as a source of …
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