View Full Version : The Balding Bundesliga
sl7vk
23 Mar 2005, 06:02 PM
What is up with the hair loss issues being suffered in the Bundesliga? Every other player is bald. Kind of wierd.
European16
23 Mar 2005, 06:15 PM
ahahha i never noticed
wolfsburgh
23 Mar 2005, 06:18 PM
What is up with the hair loss issues being suffered in the Bundesliga? Every other player is bald. Kind of wierd.
All right, Troll, go back to where you came. "Every other player is bald." Really? Taking a random team (well, not so random--my namesake team), Wolfsburg has 24 players on the roster. Of those 24 players, one is bald (Schnoor), one has rapidly thinning hair (Hristov), and one has a noticeable receding hairline (Petrov). The coach has a full head of hair. So, 2 out of 24 Wolfsburg players are bald (I'll give you Hristov, but not Petrov, who I would not regard as "bald"). If that constitutes "every other player" in your book, or even a noteworthy trend, I foresee remedial math in your future (remedial spelling, too). Now please go away.
sl7vk
23 Mar 2005, 06:21 PM
All right, Troll, go back to where you came. "Every other player is bald." Really? Taking a random team (well, not so random--my namesake team), Wolfsburg has 24 players on the roster. Of those 24 players, one is bald (Schnoor), one has rapidly thinning hair (Hristov), and one has a noticeable receding hairline (Petrov). The coach has a full head of hair. So, 2 out of 24 Wolfsburg players are bald (I'll give your Hristov, but not Petrov, who I would not regard as "bald"). If that constitutes "every other player" in your book, or even a noteworthy trend, I foresee remedial math in your future (remedial spelling, too). Now please go away.
I apologize, I should have clarified that I consider thinning and bald in the same light. Seriously though, it seems a bit bald/thinning heavy compared to other European leagues. The odd thing is, a lot of the balding guys aren't German. It just seems that this league attracks folically challenged superstars.
wolfsburgh
23 Mar 2005, 06:27 PM
Well, you mentioned you saw the Hamburg/Dortmund game. Barbarez, Koller, Dede, Jarolim and Beinlich are balding/thinning, but, I think that's it of the players who appeared. So 5 out of maybe 28 players is not that many.
The Old Lady Hertha
23 Mar 2005, 09:20 PM
Players I know who are bald in Bundesliga: Koller, Dede, Beinlich, Reina, di Salvo, Gilberto, Hristov, Jarolim, Barbarez,
shutoutj
24 Mar 2005, 10:55 PM
Add Fatmir Vata(sp?) of Arminia Bielefeld and Victor Skripnik of Werder Bremen.
BayernWake
24 Mar 2005, 11:21 PM
All right, Troll, go back to where you came. "Every other player is bald." Really? Taking a random team (well, not so random--my namesake team), Wolfsburg has 24 players on the roster. Of those 24 players, one is bald (Schnoor), one has rapidly thinning hair (Hristov), and one has a noticeable receding hairline (Petrov). The coach has a full head of hair. So, 2 out of 24 Wolfsburg players are bald (I'll give you Hristov, but not Petrov, who I would not regard as "bald"). If that constitutes "every other player" in your book, or even a noteworthy trend, I foresee remedial math in your future (remedial spelling, too). Now please go away.
Why are you so touchy about such a benign, lighthearted issue? It's not like he's insulting the Bundesliga...
Mehr
24 Mar 2005, 11:34 PM
Hey, what about Fabian Ernst? he is definitely balding. Also Robert Enke.
There are more but I am too lazy to think of them lol.
sl7vk
25 Mar 2005, 12:32 AM
Why are you so touchy about such a benign, lighthearted issue? It's not like he's insulting the Bundesliga...
Exactly. On the contrary, the more I watch the Bundesliga the more I enjoy it. Unfortunatly I don't know many of the players names, but it was just a snapshot observation that there were quite a few thinning domes on the pitch at any given moment.
wolfsburgh
25 Mar 2005, 01:17 PM
Why are you so touchy about such a benign, lighthearted issue? It's not like he's insulting the Bundesliga...
Perhaps I took into account that, as far as I know, this character's contributions to the board have been: (1) a rip on Bremen directly (although, given their performance against Lyon, perhaps they deserved it) and the BL indirectly; (2) a rip on Barbarez (at the end of which he raised the specter of a follically challenged BL, and no one responded, so what did he do--he started . . .); (3) a thread on the bald BL (perhaps he's lashing out at his own team's keeper). Under those circumstances, as his threads became increasingly ignorant, decreasingly constructive, and plainly small-minded, I employed the three strikes and you're out rule. Which means absolutely nothing, of course; he can post what he wants, as can you.
P.S. Adding to the list of bald Bundesliga-ers is our very own Kasey Keller.
sl7vk
25 Mar 2005, 01:25 PM
Perhaps I took into account that, as far as I know, this character's contributions to the board have been: (1) a rip on Bremen directly (although, given their performance against Lyon, perhaps they deserved it) and the BL indirectly; (2) a rip on Barbarez (at the end of which he raised the specter of a follically challenged BL, and no one responded, so what did he do--he started . . .); (3) a thread on the bald BL (perhaps he's lashing out at his own team's keeper). Under those circumstances, as his threads became increasingly ignorant, decreasingly constructive, and plainly small-minded, I employed the three strikes and you're out rule. Which means absolutely nothing, of course; he can post what he wants, as can you.
P.S. Adding to the list of bald Bundesliga-ers is our very own Kasey Keller.
So so sensitive. Let me rebuke-
1) I like Werder a lot. Johan Micoud should be France's playmaker, and Ismael should play some sort of role on the National side. What Werder did last year was woderful, and Lyon's thrashing of them says more about Lyon than it does about Werder.
2) Don't like Barbarez, I think he's a whiner. In that same thread I also mentioned how impressed I was with Borrusia in that game and how I couldn't understand why they were in the lower half of the table. I started a new thread because I was getting off topic with Barbarez.
3) You're grasping at straws here. Take it easy, breath, relax. No one is out to get you.
And by the way, I don't really find bald (shaved heads) players as wierd looking as balding players. The shaved heads of Barthez, Koller, and Jancker are much less shocking than the bad comeover, poofy thing that Barbarez is sporting.
DemmahoM
01 Apr 2005, 03:36 PM
Janker! :D
The Southern Dandy
10 Apr 2005, 05:40 PM
You people need to calm the hell down.
sl7vk
10 Apr 2005, 11:48 PM
I forgot to add Landon Donovan when he was at Leverkusen. God that guy is a moron.
nyceuro
16 Apr 2005, 12:50 AM
I forgot to add Landon Donovan when he was at Leverkusen. God that guy is a moron.
He was so good, he went back to MLS :D
Mattbro
22 Apr 2005, 10:38 AM
I think there are so many bald guys in the Bundesliga because that automatically makes a player a "Kopfballspezialist"!
Germanshepherd
22 Apr 2005, 10:42 AM
I think there are so many bald guys in the Bundesliga because that automatically makes a player a "Kopfballspezialist"!
You think getting rid of his weeds on top would make him even more lethal?
http://index.hu/cikkepek/0407/sport/ballack.jpg
sl7vk
22 Apr 2005, 11:11 AM
You think getting rid of his weeds on top would make him even more lethal?
http://index.hu/cikkepek/0407/sport/ballack.jpg
I think there is no question about it.
http://www.sportal.de/de/images/200431/260704barbarez_m.jpg
Germanshepherd
22 Apr 2005, 11:15 AM
Barbarez rules! usually. I just hope he wont score tomorrow.