Bundesliga: The Sixties
WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER Kicking off in 1963, the Bundesliga was something of a late starter, but it didn’t take much time to catch up with the big boys. Now, with the league celebrating its 50th season...
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WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER Part 2 of the “Bundesliga 50” anniversary series takes a look at the Seventies, arguably Germany’s most successful decade. Never before or since has Germany dominated the...
View ArticleBundesliga: The Eighties
WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER The “Bundesliga 50″ series continues with the third part of our history of German football. After two strong decades, things couldn’t possibly get any better for German football...
View ArticleThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised
WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER Football is a money machine, you only have to at the figures produced each year by the top clubs in Europe and the rest of the world. But beyond the limelight of the top flight,...
View ArticleThe Kids Are Alright
WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER Parents screaming from the sidelines have long been an unspoken problem in youth football, but one revolutionary kids’ coach in Germany has suggested three simple rules to...
View ArticleEmpty Promises: Depression In Football
WORDS: CHRISTOPH WAGNER It is now four-and-a-half years since Robert Enke tragically took his own life in autumn 2009, but despite calls at the time for a wider discussion about depression in sport,...
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