Yeah, interesting career in southwestern Germany for Parra so far. He was dropped by fourth division FC Homburg last year along with two others...
Getting Ballack away from the commentators' desk appeared to help him appear less stilted (i.e. no papers to look down at when he had none handy)....
Tom Dooley's first professional club. He helped lead them from the third division all the way to the Bundesliga before jumping over to neighboring...
From the Kicker story (via the translation program in my head): Schalke 04 won't likely be able to call on Jermaine Jones for the rest of the...
Jones had the following comments in an article in the German publication RP Online: "To talk of the (World Cup) title would be an exaggeration....
Wow, that's a news article? A three paragraph lead-in, followed by 16 quotes in a row. Then a paragraph about being encouraged by a teammate and...
An almost epic collapse after Donovan put the U.S. ahead 3-1. A disallowed Honduras goal that appeared to be legit, followed by a missed penalty...
Kicker has this picture with the caption: American Bradley shows total body comitment agaisnt Duisburg.
I'll grant you that Bild is a pretty prominent offender in this regard. Nevertheless, I do get a sense that German sports report veer into the...
Gotta love the editorializing that German papers feel entitled to throw into their stories. Regarding Arguez's collapse, the Bild reporter says...
According to the interview, she's not moving with him to Dortmund because she's competing for a spot on Germany's Olympic pole vaulting team....
When Saarbruecken gave up on its dedication to American players (Wynalda, Moore) and even an American coach/executive (Dooley), the team began a...
Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I was watching a replay of the Borrussia Dortmund-Hansa Rostock game the other day, and was surprised to...
If Johnson at some point loses the Lederhosen we may get the hint that he's considering a bid for the U.S. team!
I'm tyring to remember the chronology here, but I think Dooley was also the interim coach at 1. FC Saarbruecken in the 2nd division, maybge after...
Band in this case refers to a ligament. Some sort of strain in his knee, perhaps?
"Das ist der große Unterschied zwischen der Regionalliga und der Bundesliga", erklärt der 21-Jährige, "du machst einen Fehler, und sie lassen dich...
How bout if you add up all the EPL players who play for other national teams?
RSV Wurges, that's where I want to be.... So how old is this guy? Also: Goddman you Oberliga Hessen, you do it to me every time...
Dunno that there's too much for Casey too prove in the 2nd Bundesliga. He had 21 goals in 49 games in the the lower division, and was an wrecking...
weren't the stretchers introduced way back when to keep games moving along, i.e. to keep the fakers from being able to milk the clock while...
Didn't 1860 also narrowly avoid insolvency or somesuch? Seem to remember Bayern Muenchen having to offer to bail them out because of the...
Don't forget the immortal David Regis. Though he became "American" through marriage, if I recall correctly.
Ok, obviously one or two of us in familiar with the news business. One way to tell if the story is original and staff-written is if it has a...
What, this threat wasn't supposed to be about the world's oldest and largest news wire service? :D