Newly promoted Thun were expected to go down, but are strolling to the championship title in Switzerland instead. 15 points ahead of 2nd place now!
I spoke to them about their incredible season.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just to make that clear - Brazil playing in blue against France (!!) is perverse.
There is only one representative of the Danish Superliga in the game between Denmark and North Macedonia.
And he plays for Macedonia!
Even though Sønderjyske winger Lirim Qamili is a Dane, born in Copenhagen suburbs.
In the summer of 2008, Barcelona appointed Guardiola, Dortmund appointed Klopp, Chelsea appointed Scolari, and Qarabag appointed Gurban Gurbanov.
And his is still there, more than 17 years later, building an incredible empire.
The story for @theguardian.com :
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Let football be the only religion in the world in 2026.
Happy New Year!
Asked ChatGPT what was the best 2025 transfer in its opinion.
It said Mats Wieffer to Atletico Madrid and provided analysis of his performances there.
Unreal stuff.
Peter Neustädter played for Kazakhstan, and his son Roman Neustädter played for not one but two different national teams - Germany and Russia. Even though Peter was born in Kyrgyzstan and Roman was born in Ukraine (both being part of USSR at the time).
My daughter is watching the entire Dortmund game tonight because she is looking for a leopard.
Great job promoting football by Julian Ryerson!
Dynamo Kyiv have signed a Moldovan-Romanian striker who shared posts of the worst and vilest pro-Putin propagandist and allegedly wanted to play for a Russian club.
The fans are furious!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trent Alexander Arnold moves from Liverpool to Real Madrid.
Livepool sign Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen to replace him.
Now Leverkusen sign Lucas Vazquez, released from Real Madrid, to replace Frimpong.
What a bizarre triangle!
I have never cared less about any final, as obscure as it could possibly be, than I care about this Infantino garbage today.
It takes pure evil to invent a tournament that makes football lovers hate it.
Peter Zoontjes was the greatest Telstar fan since the club was established in 1963.
He died today, aged 86, less than a week after Telstar won insanely sensational promotion to Eredivisie - for the first time in 47 years.
What a timing.
He deserved to be there next season.
The amazing story of third division FC Biel-Bienne, from the watch capital of Switzerland, who reached the Cup final less than a decade after going bankrupt.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
This is pretty wild.
Achraf Hakimi played for 4 teams in his career.
2 of them played in the Champions League final last season, and the other 2 play in the Champions League final this season.
One of the most surprising moves is to be announced today - Arda Turan signs as the new Shakhtar Donetsk coach.
Sporting director Darijo Srna made the decision.
Here they are negotiating.
Lads, it's Tottenham.
Bochum have been relegated in an awful season.
They only have 1 win in the last 11 matches.
That win was 3-2 at Bayern Munchen in March.
Which happens to be Bayern's only home Bundesliga defeat all season.
And Bochum's first win at Bayern since 1991.
Try to explain that :)
Sunday: Pippo Inzaghi is promoted to Serie A.
Tuesday: Simone Inzaghi qualifies for the Champions League final.
The best week for the Inzaghi family.
Today we are celebrating a decade since the Finnish league had this perfect table.
Assists for Barcelona: Lamine Yamal (2), Luka Modric.
The youngest and the oldest.
Kylian Mbappe's April:
0 goals
1 red card
1 injury
Donnarumma loves penalty shoot-outs in England.
And Chiesa is always there.
Bochum against Bayern - they are thrashed, or they win.
Nothing in between.
21/22
Bayern v Bochum 7:0
Bochum v Bayern 4:2
22/23
Bochum v Bayern 0:7
Bayern v Bochum 3:0
23/24
Bayern v Bochum 7:0
Bochum v Bayern 3:2
24/25
Bochum v Bayern 0:5
Bayern v Bochum 2:3
That's one of the best ever, I guess.
Go Ahead Eagles haven't beaten PSV Eindhoven since 1983.
More than 41 years.
Arie Haan, Willy van de Kerkhof and Huub Stevens played for PSV when they last lost.
And now Go Ahead Eagles have won 2 games vs PSV in 3 days!!!
Stuttgart have 11 Germans in the lineup vs Bayern tonight.
Quite brilliant.
Alexander Sørloth's last 4 away matches vs Barcelona:
Goal and assist, 2-1 win with Real Sociedad
Goal and 2 assists, 5-3 win with Villarreal
Injury time winner, 2-1 win with Atletico Madrid
Injury time equaliser, 4-4 with Atletico Madrid
Overall: 4 goals, 3 assists, unbeaten
Every time I feel sorry for Milan I remind myself that they are managed by Zlatan, and it becomes obvious that they deserve it.
Diving in the VAR era is a sign of a low IQ.
Seriously.
Corsica want to be accepted by UEFA.
Really.
The story for @11freunde.de
www.11freunde.de/internationa...
Waldemar Anton:
0 away goals for Stuttgart in the Bundesliga during 4 seasons at Stuttgart.
1 away goal for Stuttgart after moving to Dortmund.