Off the top of my head, fc cologne has 19 players out of 20-something that are German... Of the 19, I count 7 local boys either from cologne or around, or played reserves with cologne before being promoted... What about the other clubs? Are there many clubs with more foreigners than germans?
Goal Roman Weidenfeller (Germany) Bernd Meier (German) Dennis Gentenaar (UEFA) Defense Christian Wörns (Germany) Dede (FIFA) Christoph Metzelder (Dortmund or nearby) Markus Brzenska (Dortmund or nearby) Philipp Degen (UEFA)Uwe Hünemeier (Dortmund or nearby) Midfield Sebastian Kehl (Germany) Florian Kringe (Dortmund or nearby) Tomas Rosicky (UEFA) Niclas Jensen (UEFA) Lars Ricken (Dortmund or nearby) Marc-Andre Kruska (Dortmund or nearby) Nizamettin Caliskan (Dortmund or nearby) Nuri Sahin (Dortmund or nearby) Attack Jan Koller (UEFA) Ewerthon (FIFA) David Odonkor (Dortmund or nearby) Salvatore Gambino (Dortmund or nearby) Mahir Saglik (Dortmund or nearby) Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek (UEFA) Delron Buckley (FIFA)Sebastian Tyrala (Dortmund or nearby)
I don't have the roster in front of me and I know they just signed to Swiss players, but there was a lot of talk last season of Frankfurt also having a predominently German team. note: Swiss players are more than likely German speakers so the communication is still there.
I think that's more or less standard in the Bundesliga. Random check of the last season rosters: Bayern: 12 out of 26 were german Stuttgart: 14 out of 28 HSV: 14 out of 26 OK, maybe not really standard, but more or less 50/50. But the rule is that you must have at least 12 germans on the roster. If they do play doesn't matter.
Eintracht Braunschweig's squad consists entirely of players born in Germany - although two players, Kuru and Celikovic, don't have German citizenship. But only two players are homegrown, iirc.
Hertha have very few: Germans are Fiedler, Friedrich, Fathi, Marx, Tremmel, Schroeder, thats all I can think of.
Madlung, Ludwig, Neuendorf, Chr. Müller (well, if all of them still play there this season of course).
Ah yes, another one of signature brain farts, but Ludwig left to Koln. How could I forget Zecke and his torn shirt? Oh yes, Kovac was born in Germany too...
Lets see if i can do this for bremen off the top of my head german, or german born players Reinke Wiese Fahrenhorst Schulz Owomoyela Baumann Ernst (gbye) Frings Borowski Banecki Hunt Klose Klasnic (born in Hamburg) Stier a lot of the players, ironically, were born in/around Hamburg
Timo Hildebrand - Stuttgart Dirk Heinen - Germany Andreas Hinkel - stuttgart Boris Zivkovic - uefa Martin Stranzl - uefa Markus Babbel - Germany Andreas Hitzlsperger- Germany Ludovic Magnin - Uefa Fernando Meira - Uefa Mathieu Delpierre - Uefa Steffen Dangelmayr - Stuttgart Silvio Meissner - Uefa Heiko Gerber - Germany Christian Tiffert - Stuttgart Zvonimir Soldo - uefa Horst Heldt - uefa Elson - Fifa Cacau - Fifa Marco Streller - Uefa.
Hannover German players: Robert Enke Sören Halfar (Hannover) Per Mertesacker (Hannover) Silvio Schröter Michael Delura Thomas Brdaric Christoph Dabrowski Michael Tarnat Daniel Stendel Hanno Balitsch Youth players who will train with the first team this season and may play games: Moritz Marheineke Johannes Dietwald Jan Rosenthal Hendrik Hahne Ricardo Sousa (Portugal) Chavdar Yankov (Bulgaria) Altin Lala (Albania) Darius Zuraw (Poland) Stajner (Czech Rep.) Vahid Hashemian (Iran) Frank Juric (Australia) Vinicius (Brazil) Mo Idrissou (Cameroun) Steven Cherundolo (USA)
Full Hertha list: Fiedler-Berlin Stuhr-Ellegard-Danish Tremmel-German Friedrich-German van Burik-Dutch Simunic-Croat Fathi-German/Iranian Schroeder-German Madlung-German Chahed-German Cagara-Danish/Filipino Bieler-German Samba-Congo/German Boateng-German/some African country, I don't know which Marx-German Basteurk-Turkish Marcelinho-Brazilian, wishes he was German Zecke-German Kovac-Croat, but born in Berlin Cairo-Netherlands Christian Mueller-German Gilberto-Brazilian Dardai-Hungarian Schmidt-German Rafael-Angolan Salihovic-Bosnian Dejagah-Iranian/German Wichniarek-Polish
You are right of course. :/ He was born in Hannover but grew up in Pattensen which is a town of 15.000 in the Region Hannover. I also grew up in a small town in the Region but I've always considered myself a Hannoveraner.
That's why I wrote "(Dortmund or nearby)". Else most of the player I mentioned are from cities around Dortmund (Lünen, Lüdenscheid, Hagen etc.) p.s.: Btw, plain wrong, Metzelder is from Haltern.
Originally Posted by Denzon ...metzelder is from münster not dortmund. If jonam said foreign soil he may could have meant Herne, Gelsenkirchen, Essen
As he playes for us ,.... he is german. We ain't that harsch about mixed cultures... Asamoah is born and raised fully as african .... but who cares? he is GERMAN.
Yes! Too right Don't see anyone fussing about Kuranyi, Klose, Podolski, Scholl, etc. etc. Right?? perhaps only when they are playing badly... but let's not be cynical!
Hmm yer I had the impression Asamoah was born in Africa but grew up in Germany? Is that it? And who playing for Dortmund was born in Kiel but labeled 'Dortmund or nearby'? Isn't Kiel like up north somewhere near Hamburg? Oh perhaps you're mocking... maybe nearby just means 1h driving distance from dortmund
Yep, Asamoah came to Hannover when he was 12 I think. Part of his familiy still lives here. For those who speak German, there's a great ZEIT article: http://zeus.zeit.de/text/archiv/2001/26/200126_49_51-ghanatxt.xml "He smiles when he speaks about Hannover. Come back to 96 Asa!! There are currentely 3 Hannoveraner in the German NT: Asamoah, Ernst and Mertesacker.
Don't know which player was born in Kiel, but that's certainly not nearby Dortmund. It indeed is north of Hamburg and about 450 km away from Dortmund.