This is the title of a magazine that was published by kicker today. I think it’s an excellent magazine that provides you with all kinds of information like champion-team-pics, rankings, results, top strikers, MVP’s of all seasons. The ones who are familiar with the German language can read stories about the founding of the league, a long Beckenbauer, Seeler, Müller/Lauth interview, articles about HSV, national team, European Cup, TV, economy, refs, foreigners in the league, tactics and the league scandal. For all stats freaks (who don’t have to be able to read German) there is a list with all Bundesliga players, Bundesliga clubs, Bundesliga coaches, Bundesliga referees, ejections, all time records, stadiums and various other stats. I think this last stats part makes this magazine really worth buying for anyone, who is interested in Bundesliga. I’m probably not allowed to, but I’ll post the link where you can order this magazine (I have no personal interest in the sales!!!). In Germany you’ll get it everywhere where you can buy newspapers, it costs 6.80 Euro. I don’t know what they take for shipping to the USA, but a hint: wait until July 14 and order it together with kicker’s 2003/04 season magazine. I’m not sure, but maybe you can even get it in the USA as they have a distributor in Englewood, NJ. Take it as personal recommendation – you’ll have to wait ten years to get such a cheap and handy collection of information on Bundesliga. The magazine has 146 coloured pages plus a 64 pages black/white stats part. http://www.kicker.de/content/bestellung/bestellung.asp?folder=101300
Re I would love to get a copy of that but the on-line shopping feature seems to be set up just for European customers. Do you know any other way of ordering from kicker??
The page doesn't have an SSL certficate, so it's not a secure transaction. I'd advise anyone not give their bank account info via that kicker page. However, you can order the magazine and get billed for it. I would contact kicker via email (info@kicker.de), or their Web-form: http://www.kicker.de/content/service/email.asp?folder=101100 If you know German, you could call the publisher (Olympia-Verlag) at their main number: +49-911-216-0.
wolfsburgh is the shopping expert regarding Bundesliga, seems that he is in vacation or very busy right now. However, I think there also were some others who already ordered from kicker. info@kicker.de is the right place to ask for international shipping I think; they'll direct it to the right place. Canuck Fan, as I said, I'd maybe wait until middle of July until the season magazine is published. You'll find all team rosters from D1 to D3 and team pics from D1 and D2, which of course includes de Guzman and Stalteri. Btw, there were four Canadians in Bundesliga so far - Stalteri, de Guzman, McKenna and who is no.4?
Re I guess the 4th Cdn in Bundesliga would be Tam Nsaliwa who had his Bundesliga 2 debut around January 28th, 2001 with Nurnberg when they were still Bundesliga 2. He was let go from Nurnberg at the end of the 2000/2001 season and eventually signed with Saarbrucken in early winter of 2001.
Re: Re No, Nsaliwa did not play Bundesliga yet. There must be a 4th player, who already played there (maybe years ago, don't know)
No other Cdns played in Bundesliga 1 or 2 that I am aware of and I follow it pretty closely from a Cdn perspective. If you are talking Bundesliga 1 only, then the only other possibility for Bundesliga 1 would be if they counted Hargreaves as Cdn. Also, thanks for the info on ordering. I will try an email.
Does anyone posting here have any tips regarding ordering from kicker for delivery in North America? I am interested in getting the 2003/2004 guide and the 40 years of Bundesliga that came out in May. I'm in Canada but if anyone has ordered from the USA, could they please provide some advice. Thanks in advance.
IIRC wolfsburgh already ordered from kicker. I don't know if he's on the boards at the moment; maybe write a PM.
What I could find out meanwhile that shipping is 2.60 Euro for one magazine with slow mail (up to 6 weeks) or 11.80 Euro by air mail.
Sorry guys, but I've never ordered from Kicker so I can't be of any help. With respect to club sites, my experience has been that if they don't take credit cards, ordering for direct shipment to the US/Canada is impossible (and even then, some clubs that take credit card orders still won't ship to the US/Canada). The best club sites, in my experience, for North American orders are: Hertha; Gladbach; Wolfsburg; and Stuttgart (although I'm not sure about Stuttgart anymore). Maybe one of those sites have what you are looking for.
Subscribing to Kicker It is actually rather easy to subscribe to Kicker. You can send them an e-mail -- check the Abonement link on the kicker web site. They will accept a visa card, and voila. I have been subscribing in California for about 4 years now. It is expensive and comes a little bit late, but I liek to have it to read on the train.
Looking over your post again, I see that you are looking for Sonderhefte. I am sure they will take visa and ship those to you. I have not had trouble finding SOnderhefte in American international magazine shops. E.g. Cafe De La Presse in San Francisco, and Out of Town News in Harvard Square Cambridge. The 40 year Bundesliga Sonderhefte was excellent. My conclusion on reading it was that you need to score 70 goals to win the bundesliga. Of course some teams have won on less than that, and some have not won despite scoring more than 70, but I think that should be the goal -- score 70 and let in less than 35. I do not see how Dortmund will score 70 this year, and now, with Lehmann gone, they may even let in more than 35.
At the risk of making too many posts on this point, you might contact: "Traute Oertel" <t.oertel@olympia-verlag.de> About getting sonderheft shipped to you.