VfB Stuttgart-Deutscher Meister 07 Thread 07/08 part 2 [R]

[Dead Fingers]

Please continue.:)

[benztown]

According to newspaper reports, Stuttgart will finally get a real football stadium. The VfB as well as the city of Stuttgart seem to have reached an agreement on how to finance the reconstruction.

That's Great news :cool:
The reconstruction efforts will start in April 2009 and will last until the end of 2011. The deal is pretty complicated. The VfB won't buy the stadium as of now, but will pay 27 Million € which is more than a third of the total reconstruction costs.

Here's a rendering of how things are supposed to look like when it's finished:
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/media_fast/626/Daimler_1720.JPG

Opposed to earlier reports, the capacity won't decrease but the stadium will even gain another 500 seats.

[giovanni07]

sweeeeeeeeet ness....lol

[footyfan1]

What will happen to Stuttgart's track and field events? Will a new stadium be built for those?

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

That looks awesome!

Too bad it's still 3 years away, :( but the day when we will play in it will come!

["Eisenfuß" Eilts]

What will happen to Stuttgart's track and field events? Will a new stadium be built for those?

Don´t know, but i read an indoot complex will be included,
that can be used for volleyball, handball, fencing, table-tennis
and gymnastics.

link: Stuttgarter Zeitung (Forum) (http://forum.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=34942&sid=99e0ccdf0b87cd4cae18ce7ec5a48f5e)

Whole thing looks great. It will surely improve the atmosphere in Stuttgart
as you could have seen at other clubs in the past. I also like, that the stadium roof
will be part of the new stadium, because this way the stadium remains unique.

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

Meanwhile, player ratings for the Cottbus match:

Sven Ulreich: KR: 3
MR: 2.5

Ricardo Osorio: KR: 3.5
MR: 3.5

Fernando Meira: KR: 2(MoM)
MR: 2(MoM)

Matthieu Delpierre: KR: 3
MR: 3

Ludovic Magnin: KR: 3.5
MR: 3

Pavel Pardo: KR: 3
MR: 3.5

Thomas Hitzlsperger: KR: 4
MR: 4.5

Roberto Hilbert: KR: 4
MR: 4

Yildiray Basturk: KR: 4
MR: 4

Sergiu Radu: KR: 5
MR: 5

Ciprian Marica: KR: 5
MR: 4.5

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Basically, the most encouraging part of the Cottbus game, besides the 3 points, was our defense. Ulreich had his first ever clean sheet, Also, Meira, who has been off his best this season played a very good game and scored the winning goal to top it off. Deservedly man of the match, and Delpierre played good too. Magnin I think should be the starter over Boka as he's simply more reliable, and Osorio improved on the Bremen game, hopefully he just needs to get his fitnesss back. This is all promising, but we mustn't forget that it's not hard for a defense to look good against COttbus. We'll see on Saturday if this is an improvement or just a one-off, but for now it's encouraging.

The midfield did badly, but that's mostly because of Cottbus's rough style. The strikers were the worst though. Marica didn't play well, and still can't score. I'd say if Gomez is fit we should definitely play Gomez-Cacau in attack against Bochum. As for Radu, well it was his first match starting and he was absolutely terrible, just like in the winter friendlies. I really wonder why we loaned him out, and it's hard for me to see him having any impact on the club's fortunes in the remainder of the season. We'll see.

[Fußballgott]

What will happen to Stuttgart's track and field events? Will a new stadium be built for those?

Stadion Festwiese will be built up.
Wasted money but atleast they leave us alone.

[footyfan1]

Stadion Festwiese will be built up.
Wasted money but at least they leave us alone.

OK. I think I know that one. That's where the American Football team plays, isn't it??

Wasted money? I guess the track and field events don't do well in Stuttgart anymore??

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

No one cares about them except the mayor.

[footyfan1]

No one cares about them except the mayor.

Thanks for that info.

[benztown]

Because of the Track & Field World Championship in 1992 in Stuttgart which created a lot of buzz, the city thinks that it has to preserve it's sports image.

But now the city officials seem to have realized that all that is merely a waste of money. Nobody cares about the IAAF World Athletics Final that Stuttgart is hosting.

[giovanni07]

My fellow Champions what is new?

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

Bochum game will start now...

Gomez is not being played again unfortunately, and it's a Cacau-Marica lineup in attack, Marica playing slightly behind Cacau.

Other than that our strongest team - 3 points here will be very hard to get, I don't really think we'll win this match, but who knows. Auf geht's VfB!

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

Meira scores a valid goal but it's not given. I won't complain though, Bochum had a fair goal dissallowed as well. Poor job by the ref. so far either way...

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

We're 1-0 down at halftime.

We've been the better team overall, after the two goals that were not given on either side early on, Bochum had one nice play, which ended up in a goal. Since then we've dominated but the decisive pass and decisive shot have been missing.

Not enough has been done in midfield, especially players like Hilbert and Basturk have not been good enough so far. Cacau has been very dissappointing so far, I hope to see an improvement from him in the second 45. If we're still losing at 60 minutes, bring in Gomez even if he isn't completely fit.

I'll be satisfied with a draw really, considering Bochum's good results recently, but we'll see. Let's not forget the famous Bochum-VfB match alst year, we were down at halftime then too... can we turn things around again? It would be very important for us to. Let's go!

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

Tooooooooor!

The final pass and final shot arrived!

Marica with a great setup for Hitz, who slots the ball coolly past the keeper.

45 minutes left now, all to play for!

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

27 minutes in, Torrero enters now.

EDIT: 27 minutes LEFT of course.

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

FT: 1-1.

A fair result overall, I think both sides played well. Obviously we can't be thrilled with this, but it's also not a bad score. Taking a point from Bochum is not brilliant, but we can live with it.

I'll give a longer summary later.

[benztown]

Interestingly, this is only our second draw after the very first game of the season, the 2-2 against Schalke...