The Lonely Dreamer

A dejected Berni and Dante try to console each other The mascot of FC Bayern Munich,  Berni has admitted that he is unhappy with his current situation at Bayern Munich. "Of course I am not happy with my current situation," Berni was quoted as saying by  Bild . "Everyone seems to be unhappy nowadays, everyone wants to leave, so how can i stay behind?. So even i contacted Bild and Goal.com to inform them that i have had enough. My time at Bayern has come to an end, so to write a story about me aswell" Berni took over from his    predecessor Bazi back in 2004 and has now been with the club since the last 10 years. "When i joined back then, everything was so good. i was an instant hit. Everyone loved me, but things are different now. Even the players feel the same, everyday new bandwagnors  join in and try to be a pundit. I have had enough of football itself" The versatile mascot is no longe...

It was a heavenly feeling. I experienced what it felt like being in the promised land. The night was still young, and the party was not yet over. Chants of Super Bayern filled the air. We were going wild with celebrations. We were champions, Champions of Europe. I still remember that dreadful night a year ago. My world had come crashing down. But the class of 2013 knows how to kick back. And back with style they did. I continued to be the same pessimist I was, day in and day out. No matter which team we played I never kept hope. One by one we kept moving forward. The team was hell bent on redemption. There were a few new faces. Change makers. There was something in this squad that no Bayern team of the past ever had. There was strength in depth. Even our reserves were good enough to play a starting role in any other team. We were on a rampage on every front. The Bundesliga seemed a done deal 2 months before the end. Records kept breaking on weekly basis. Teams kept getting battered o...

”The day was 7 th August 1936 as Germany faced Norway in the knockout rounds of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Norway was a team, the Germans had been undefeated since their last eight matches against them. However this match unlike the others was different as it had a very special guest among the stands, The Fuhrer along with his group of ministers had gone to Berlin’s Poststadion, to lend their support to Otto Nerz and his German team. It was Adolf Hitler’s first football match and was clearly trying to use the games as a propaganda and a means of gaining prestige at that time.” Throughout history dictators have used sports as a political propaganda. Politics and football looks at how Europe’s right wing dictatorship pounced on the working man’s sport as a means of drumming up support for their personal ambitions. May it be Franco in Spain, Mussolini in Italy or even the Nazis in Germany. Football not only a way of showing support but also served a strategy to spread one...

When i started of supporting the German NT, Bayern or the whole Bundesliga as a league in general, i used to spend alot of time surfing for articles on the internet which could catch my imagination to the beautiful world of German football. Blogs,websites,columns,forums or even wikipedia. Reading was all i used to do all day. Of writers who cover the bundesliga, three would easily stand out to be not only mine, but almost everyone's top favorite. Raphael Honigstein , Clark Whitney, and the one and only Uli Hesse Lichtenberger!! Uli Hesse Lichtenberger   Uli Hesse Lichtenberger was born in 1966 in Dortmund, Germany. He is a freelance writer , editor and author who writes on football. Since 2002 he has been he is a regular columnist for ESPNsoccernet. As by now you may have already known how big of a Klose worshiper i am. And so it happened during Euro 2008, i was surfing the internet on Germany's performances when i came across a article on Klose by Uli. So much was the ...

Unlike counterparts in England, Spain or Italy, German clubs have a knack of adorning their date of foundation with great importance. They treat their foundation date with such reverence that it almost always forms a part of the official club name – 1860 Munich, Schalke 04, Bayer 04 (Leverkusen), Mainz 05, BVB 09 (Dortmund), Hannover 96. Many more at least carry the dates in their club badge, like Bochum, Düsseldorf, St. Pauli or Duisburg do. VfB Stuttgart’s logo read ’1893′ but not ‘Stuttgart’ until 1999. These dates mark an important era of the beginning of football in Germany. Long before football arrived in Germany, gymnastics dominated the country. Most early clubs were created for exactly this purpose. Back in the old days, football in Germany was considered as the ‘English disease’ and only took its roots later in the 19th century. When these clubs were founded, they were never solely for football, but were multi-sport, non-profit associations offering its members sports suc...

In European football, fans have become accustomed to the league titles in the different countries being won by a select few teams year after year. However, in recent times, the traditional tide has been changing in Bundesliga. Bayern Munich don’t have the same iron grip that on the Bundesliga that they had held so comfortably for so long. This season, Borussia Dortmund  with expenditure replaced with an unnerving faith in youth, have romped to the German league title. Before you get into the topic that I am aiming at, lets look back at the previous years even before the start of the league back in 1963. Pre Bundesliga days Between the late 1920′s till 1963,  seven different clubs had won Italy’s Serie A, eight different teams triumphed Spain’s La Liga  and thirteen different clubs were the League Champions in England. However in Germany, around seventeen different clubs emerged with national titles during the same span. Nuremberg during the 20′s followed by Schalke in...

Ever since i was 12 years old, ive been a huge football freak. This passion started during the WC of 2002 and my very first match of Germany vs Saudi Arabia. Thats when i came across a certain footballer who buried the ball in the net for the third time that night. His name was Miroslav Klose. And since that time 8 years back, this man has been my idol. My football God. Just who exactly is Miroslav Klose? Miroslav Klose is a German footballer Born on 9 June 1978 in the Silesian city of Opole, Poland, to Josef and Barbara Kloze, Miroslav Klose is one of German football’s most successful footballers ever to graze the pitch. With 100 plus caps and Bundesliga goals to his name, one can barely argue to his credentials of being one of the the most prolific strikers in the footballing world. Little did young  Klose know about how his life would change when his parents moved from their native Poland, fleeing the Communist rule, to France and finally Germany, settling in a...