Marco Rose: How Jurgen Klopp influenced Bournemouth's new head coach German football expert Matt Ford tells the story of Rose's career so far and explains Klopp's part in it

🇩🇪 From East Germany to the Premier League: piece on AFC Bournemouth's next head coach, Marco Rose.

🍒 #bundesliga #epl

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🎥 How SC Freiburg learnt their lesson from that late defeat to Bayern Munich and ruthlessly put Celta Vigo to the sword to reach a first ever European semi-final.

🇪🇸 Plus more reaction from Galicia with @manuelveth.bsky.social on Gegenpressing ➡️ gegenpressing.substack.com/p/european-r...

Celta Vigo 1-3 SC Freiburg (1-6)

Freiburg stroll into their first ever European semifinal after thoroughly dismantling Celta (6th in La Liga) over two legs. Will face Braga/Betis next. Also have a DFB Pokal semifinal vs. Stuttgart to come. Already another huge season from a hugely impressive club.

🎥 Marie-Louise Eta: More background and reaction to 1. FC Union Berlin’s historic coaching appointment on Gegenpressing ➡️ gegenpressing.substack.com/p/union-berl...

🇩🇪 #bundesliga @manuelveth.bsky.social @sbienkowski.bsky.social

Fortuna Düsseldorf sack head coach Markus Anfang and replace him with Alexander Ende, sending German pun lovers into overdrive, because:

"Anfang" = start
"Ende” = end

So: "Das Ende von Anfang ist der Anfang von Ende…"

Viel Spaß 🤓

#F95

Bundesliga: Union Berlin appoint first female head coach Marie-Louise Eta has become the first-ever female head coach of a senior men's side in European football's top five leagues. The 34-year-old already has substantial coaching experience in men's footba...

Following defeat to Heidenheim, Union Berlin have sacked Steffen Baumgart and appointed Marie-Louise Eta as interim head coach until the end of the season.

Eta, 34, becomes the first female head coach of a men's side in any of Europe's top five leagues.

#Bundesliga

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I reckon that applies if it’s between them and Liverpool. But Arsenal? Who cares? Good on them tbh.

Weird internet phenomenon.

1. FC Köln 3-1 SV Werder Bremen

Köln, under interim coach René Wagner, win for the first time since January and finally put some distance between themselves and the relegation zone - despite the valiant effort of Werder goalkeeper Backhaus.

Next up: St. Pauli (a) on Friday.

#bundesliga

"Whoever wants this here can never be our captain"

Borussia Mönchengladbach supporters in Leipzig on Saturday with a message for captain Rocco Reitz, who is set to join red bull’s rule-breaking, competition-distorting marketing vehicle this summer.

#bundesliga

Bundesliga: Union Berlin appoint first female head coach Marie-Louise Eta has become the first-ever female head coach of a senior men's side in European football's top five leagues. The 34-year-old already has substantial coaching experience in men's footba...

Following defeat to Heidenheim, Union Berlin have sacked Steffen Baumgart and appointed Marie-Louise Eta as interim head coach until the end of the season.

Eta, 34, becomes the first female head coach of a men's side in any of Europe's top five leagues.

#Bundesliga

www.dw.com/en/germany-b...

Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen

Literally "On The Terraces" this time.

#bundesliga

🇾🇪 New United We Stand out this weekend

Includes an interview with a rare breed: A Scouse Red.
See? They’re not all bad.

Buy the fanzines and support an independent fan culture in #Manchester 🇾🇪

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On the terraces in Dresden: Dynamo & Hertha do German fan culture huge disservice In a weekly Newsletter, Matt Ford keeps an eye on the action off the pitch in the Bundesliga and German football, explaining what’s going on from choreographies to fan protests to finances.

🇩🇪 On the terraces in Germany this week:

💥 Dynamo vs. Hertha: What happened?
💥 Fan groups: "Three months until the IMK"
💥 Politicians: "Patience at an end"

All the background and fallout from a potentially damaging evening in Dresden. On Gegenpressing ⬇️

gegenpressing.substack.com/p/on-the-ter...

Forty. Vierzig. Quarante. Cuarenta.

Reminder that Manuel Neuer turned 40 last week. #UCL

Vincent Kompany casually marking his 100th game in charge of Bayern Munich by rocking up at the Bernabeu in a khaki smock 😮‍💨👌🏼

#UCL

🎥 Quick reaction to the scenes in Dresden on Saturday night on the Gegenpressing #Bundesliga podcast ➡️ gegenpressing.substack.com/p/bundesliga...

🗞️ Full story to come on this week’s "On The Terraces" newsletter …

Despite European and German Cup failures, Dortmund will see this season as a success because getting into the Champions League and getting another fat cheque from UEFA is all that really matters for a lot of Bundesliga clubs.

🇩🇪 Gegenpressing #Bundesliga podcast live from Frankfurt, including:

💥 Scenes in Dresden
⚽️ Frankfurt 2-2 Köln
⚽️ Stuttgart 0-2 Dortmund
⚽️ Freiburg 2-3 Bayern

Packed episode w/ @sbienkowski.bsky.social & @manuelveth.bsky.social

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Very good player - but wasteful at times.

FT: Eintracht Frankfurt 2-2 1. FC Köln

In 20 wild second-half minutes, Burkardt & Kalimuendo put Frankfurt 2-0 up and Kaminski immediately responds before a triple sub from new Köln coach Wagner pays instant dividends with all three immediately combining for Castro-Montes’ equaliser. #bundesliga

HT: Eintracht Frankfurt 0-0 1. FC Köln

It took Köln 20 minutes to get a grip on Kalimuendo but once they did, they started getting their chances on the break - only for Kaminski‘s touch to let them down, while El Mala curled just wide. End-to-end stuff, Frankfurt slightly better. #bundesliga

FT: VfB Stuttgart 0-2 Borussia Dortmund

The definition of smash-and-grab. After contributing the sum total of zero to this match for 90mins, BVB win it through Adeyemi (90+4) & Brandt (90+6), promoting Stuttgart ultras to jump down from the Cannstatter Kurve and launch two chairs onto the pitch.

Borussia Dortmund supporters away at VfB Stuttgart this evening:

"Three months after the IMK is three months before the IMK - end the strategy of escalation - freedom for the terraces!"

Full background in video, podcast & thread below.

#bundesliga

HT: VfB Stuttgart 0-0 Borussia Dortmund

The definition of one-way traffic, as this high-tech graphic demonstrates. BVB have no answer to the Mittelstädt/Führich/Stiller combos down the left and are lucky to be level. Chukwuemeka lucky to be on the pitch after late tackle on Nartey. #bundesliga

Good Bayern Munich limbs, there. Not as easy to produce those sorts of shapes on a packed standing terrace. Fair play. #bundesliga

🇩🇪 Are German football stadiums really unsafe? Is tougher policing really necessary? Are there political interests at play?

🎙️ Full discussion on the latest Gegenpressing podcast - an international break On The Terraces special ➡️ gegenpressing.substack.com/p/on-the-ter...

w/ @manuelveth.bsky.social

🇩🇪 Are German football stadiums really unsafe? Is tougher policing really necessary? Are there political interests at play?

🎙️ Full discussion on the latest Gegenpressing podcast - an international break On The Terraces special ➡️ gegenpressing.substack.com/p/on-the-ter...

w/ @manuelveth.bsky.social

Core demands from the Fanszenen Deutschlands:

1. Scrap tougher banning order guidelines
2. Transparency from federations on fan issues
3. Independent watchdog to investigate police violence
4. Objective arguments, not populism

🇩🇪 #bundesliga