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Second Bundesliga sometimes outdraws the First. This is for Week 24

Excitement in the DFB for the lesser leagues. Going into the semi-finals there is one 1.Bundesliga team, Leverkusen; two from the Zweite, Düsseldorf and 1.FC Kaiserslautern, and even a club from the 3. Liga, Saarbrücken (currently 9th in the 3. Liga) who beat Mönchengladbach today!

Mainz has had such a long run in the Bundesliga, but the 2. Bundesliga is heavily populated with former first division teams. That is part of the excitement - and tension - of having promotion and relegation in a country that has a very broad base of talent. Nothing will be certain with...

I have seen nothing this year about the Bundesliga, or much of any German soccer at all, except the MNT's friendly at Rentschler although I know we have a number of fans of German teams here. I follow the team in Regensburg, SSV Jahn, which was demoted after last season to the 3. Liga/third...

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I was in Heidelberg a few weeks ago and asked about Fussball in that town. Was told there is not much history of upper division Fussball there, but that Sandhausen, gets some interest there. Turns out rowing is real big in Heidelberg.

American born Joe Enochs is the new head trainer of Jahn Regensburg. Why it took so long to fire Selimbegovic I cannot figure out. Enochs is from California and had one cap for the US national team. He played 14 years in Germany, mostly for VfL Osnabrück as they yo-yo'd between 2nd and 3rd...

The 2. Bundesliga opened the second half of the season last week and now 10 of the 18 clubs are within four points of last places. Nerves are stretched incredibly tight. If Regensburg loses to Bielefeld tomorrow at home I don't think I will be able to read the post game comments.

By Bavarian tradition an Oktoberfestbier is pretty much by definition a Märzenbier. It used be that they did not brew beer in the summer months, so in March (März) they would brew a style of beer with more hops, malt and alcohol content so they could store it for several months in cool cellars...

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Thanks for speaking now Sepp! (I suppose I need to point out that's sarcastic.) https://www.npr.org/2022/11/08/1135102137/sepp-blatter-qatar-world-cup-mistake-fifa-sarkozy

Well, spsct, I am glad I did not feel heavily invested in today's Pokal game - 5 minutes in 0-1, 11 minutes later 0-2. Ended 0-3. Düsseldorf seems to have our number.

Yup, those 3 points are big. They gave us a little separation from the relegation zone, at least for now. Mainz is doing well and it is saved a lot of potential embarassment to beat Regionalliga opponent Lübeck in the second round of the DFB Pokal today. As far as I am concerned Regensburg's...

I was too disgusted with Jahn to make any comments the last couple of weeks, but finally got a point in a 0-0 remis at home. Still not happy though - One point in four games and zero goals. There are a new loan players now available on offense who may help an the manager shook up the defense...

Middle of the table for Regensburg? Sort of - Jahn spends many weeks in the middle of table after getting off to good starts and then fading - dropping through the middle of ranks until ending the season in 14th or 15th as in the last two years. And this year the first month was very good with...

Well for Mainz Klassenerhalt means remaining in the 1. Bundesliga and if you fall into the second division the goal seems to be to get promoted back up. In Regensburg fans often suffer from nervousness about demotion to the 3. Liga. If Jahn ever made to the 1st there isn't the financial...

Following the Zweite Bundesliga (or the 3rd league if it comes to that) is much more suspenseful. Always several teams competing for promotion, demotion and/or the chance to play in the relegation play-offs. Big city teams are frequently playing teams from smaller towns in league play in...

I first heard of Pete Carril when I was at Lehigh. He grew up in Bethlehem and played at Lehigh's biggest rival, Lafayette, just a town away. However he moved on to Princeton after only one year at Lehigh and what an amazing job for 30 years at Princeton.

My experience in foreign languages might be a little different than most. I learned both Czech and German after age 20. Words in both languages do come involuntarily to mind depending on the topic of conversation, but I almost always automatically suppress them and use the English. The Czech...

I was a Czech linguist on TDY to Berlin from a remote border site in Bavaria. The big German from years ago was Marc Suhr. The German who had the most impact was Niels Giffey. UCONN also had Enosch Wolf and Leon Tolksdorf for short stays in Storrs.

I also often do what you do with the pronunciation of German names. You won't find any German words spelled with an "umlaut" over the letter "e", or "i" for that matter. You're more likely to see it in English denoting that the vowel is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel, like Chloë...

I don't believe the combination "öu" exists in German. Could have been Hüggler, but to keep the original sound they would have spelled it Hueggler as Chickenhawk points out above. The "s" ending for Bueckers isn't necessarily a transcription error as Chickenhawk suggests - many German...

Competition is enhanced at the end of the season for teams trying to avoid demotion. Every game, even at the bottom of the league, is important to maintain their level. At the top of the league the competition is not just for the top spot, but also for second and sometimes third place for...

Schalke is finding out that life in the 2nd Bundesliga can be tough on clubs accustomed to being in the top division. The Gelsenkirchen club was down 3-0 in Regensburg in the 81st minute before they got their one goal. Match ended at 4-1. That was the first goal scored against Jahn since the...

Things could change soon and likely will so I will take this opportunity to brag on Jahn Regensburg, currently leading the 2. Bundesliga and all those Big Name clubs. It helps Jahn to have Canadian national team player Scott Kennedy on the back line and Sarpreet Singh, a New Zealand...

Aargh, last game Jahn Regensburg beat Paderborn (demoted from the Bundesliga to Second Bundesliga last year) without the head trainer because he had tested positive for the Covid. Other tests were negative. Now all of a sudden others on Jahn have tested positive and the whole team, trainers...

Waquoit, Maybe I should have written it as Fußball to differentiate from foosball. Rechtschreibung still lets us write "ß" instead of "ss" after long vowels. I usually use it after the short vowel "a" to differentiate dass/daß from das, although it takes extra strokes on my keyboard (ALT 0223).

The draw for the quarterfinals of the DFB Pokal was held today. There will be at least one non-Bundesliga team advancing to the semifinals, because one match is Rot-Weiss Essen vs. Holstein Kiel (4th division Regionalliga West vs. 2. Bundesliga.) It would be cool to see another Second Bundesliga...

It's been and interesting year so far so I figured I would try to start a thread for the first time ever. The 2020/2021 DFB Pokal (German Cup) has some real surprises. Bayern got knocked out by second division Kiel in the 2nd round. Regionalliga Rot-Weiss Essen (4th division) just advanced to...

I graduated from IU and my oldest son attended PennState, living on campus for four years and in town for two. The three other kids went to UConn, two of them after Storrs Center was built, or at least most of it. I am ecstatic about what has happened at UConn and Storrs in the last 20 years...

Lee, Passaic Germany?? or do you mean Passau - beautiful little city at the confluence of three rivers. I know that for a long while the 11th Cav. covered that area and the Czech border all the way up to about Waidhaus.

CTyankee, Just to clarify: You say the "DoD has backdated all the documentation on the war to include the earlier period." The VA designation of a Vietnam Era veteran is a bit odd. If I understand it everyone who served August 5, 1964 to on May 7, 1975 whether they went to Vietnam or not is...

CTyankee, the first US KIA in Vietnam, James Davis, was in the 3rd RRU, wasn't he?

CDR-Ret, Did you know that BARB's battle flag is now on display at the Nautilus Museum in Groton? With the locomotive patch from when a landing party from the submarine set charges on a rail line resulting in destruction of Japanese train.