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[QUOTE="ETSA, post: 4823654, member: 2606"]
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 division, but has finished the first half of the season in first place.  The coach is an American, Joe Enochs. He was hired for the last couple of games last season and has recently renewed his contract.

If my septugenarian memory serves Jahn Regensburg underwent a complete revamping of its roster and staff with 18 new players this year, the new coach, and a new club operations director, who is a former coach of the team prior to moving up to be manager at Köln, Mainz, and Leipzig.  To me this all indicates there is an extremely broad pool of competent players and managers that make the third division a fully professional league.

Regensburg has had a habit of having good early season performance and then faltering, but right now, with Dresden in a close second, have opened up a lead in the table to head into the winter pause.
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