Derek Rae

The Kicker headline is “One last dream.”
“In the summer they’ll go their separate ways at Bayern. Friends Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich have plans until then.”

The DFB-Pokal semi finals will be Wednesday & Thursday matches due to calendar pressure & European participation.
Leverkusen-Bayern, Wed 22 April
Stuttgart-Freiburg, Thurs 23 April
Both kick off at 20:45.

Brutal im #dopa bezüglich #Wolfsburg (Telefonaufnahme) und warum er absteigt.
„Man kann aus einem Esel kein Rennpferd machen.“

Kicker reporting Wolfsburg have reacted to their results crisis by letting go coach Daniel Bauer and sporting chief Peter Christiansen.
Charged with stopping the club’s first ever demotion from the Bundesliga will be former coach Dieter Hecking.

Have to say when we got the first look of Couto‘s arm position in Köln last night, fully expected Daniel Siebert to go to the review area. Does anyone disagree?
#Effzeh

Someone is going to get a very good player without having to pay a transfer free.
Still, understandable that Julian Brandt who’ll be 30 by the start of next season is not who Dortmund want to plan with for the longer term. #BVB

Köln might have lost the game but not a bad performance with 10 men for more than a half. Dortmund did enough.
2 huge games tomorrow involving the relegation fight.
As ever grateful to everyone who watched the world feed from Köln tonight.

If you’re watching the Goal Arena-Bundesliga Konferenz around the world, getting fabulous late drama today!

Ebenso! Bin im üblichen Veedel :) Mach et jot.

Morning from Köln!
Big day here today with the home game against Dortmund & an ever more anxious situation in the lower reaches of the table. On comm duties for Köln-BVB world feed…
(then quickly to a monitor to watch the end of Dunfermline-Aberdeen.)
Happy ⚽️ Saturday!

How Fraser Hornby's German renaissance might be making Scotland think again After 'Big Dunc' comparisons, under-21 heroics and Aberdeen misery, Fraser Hornby is enjoying a renaissance in Germany. Could he win a Scotland…

Nice piece here by Graeme McGarry on Scottish attacker Fraser Hornby who is having the season of his career with Darmstadt.
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/259139...

If you’re in the UK, just found out another way to watch Bayern-Gladbach tonight (19:20) is on the Bundesliga App in addition to other rights holding outlets.

Lost a very good one today. A special person I’ve known for 34 years. He had a great life but it’s going to feel strange without him around. Raising a glass to him tonight.
Hug & cherish the people you hold dear.

DFL setzt Spieltage 28 bis 30 der Bundesliga und 2. Bundesliga zeitgenau an | DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga Die DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga hat die zeitgenauen Ansetzungen für die Begegnungen der Spieltage 28 bis 30 der Bundesliga und 2. Bundesliga vorgenommen.

Fixtures update.
www.dfl.de/de/fans/dfl-...

Kicker headline is “Friends & Opponents.”
“Who is the best number 10 at Bayern as well as in the national team?
Jamal Musiala, Serge Gnabry - or is it already Lennart Karl?”

Nein keine Zusammenarbeit aber natürlich kennen sie sich schon und Spielideen sind ähnlich.

Sandro Schwarz ist heute zu Gast beim FC Aberdeen und wird das Abendspiel gegen Celtic mit dem Vereinsvorstand anschauen.
Aus meiner Sicht ein guter Trainer-Kandidat für einen großen Traditionsklub im schottischen Sinne und er würde der gewünschten Spielweise passen.
Was meint ihr?

Köln-Dortmund live 🎙️ this Saturday with Owo alongside for expert analysis.
World feed: ESPN+, Sky UK & the usual 🌎 channels.
Always nice to be in the Domstadt all week ahead of the Topspiel.

Do you agree with Thomas Muller? 🤔

"It’s not spoken about in the office on a Monday morning," he said of North American football fandom to Kicker (translation via Derek Rae). "But the football bubble is not in fact so small. ... The people are interested in the game."

Good question especially for a freelancer. Different channels/companies book us at different times, sometimes several weeks or even months before. Others leave it quite late so it’s a lot of juggling prep & assignments.

Never because I make sure to plan well ahead often staying the night before in the city of the game :)

War noch nie bei einer Partie am Aachener-Tivoli aber glücklicherweise gibt‘s am Mittwoch ein Heimspiel gegen Schlusslicht Schweinfurt und so habe ich ein Ticket abgeholt. Ein neues Stadionerlebnis lohnt sich.

You too Jörg! 🙌

Müller: “However: in the playoffs our stadium was packed with 50,000 spectators.”

Müller: “They grew up with ice hockey, basketball & (American) football. The ranking of football is perhaps comparable to handball in Germany. Due to the topography in Canada, there are significantly fewer football pitches than ice hockey rinks.”

Müller: “But the football bubble is not in fact so small. In the stadia there’s euphoric atmosphere. The people are interested in the game. The rest of the population doesn’t know the football bubble at all. They have other topics & sports.”

Thomas Müller responding to a Kicker question about ⚽️ in North America. (In several parts.)
“You must separate 2 different things.
Football here still has no big significance in the life of the general population. It’s not spoken about in the office on a Monday morning.”

Kicker has itself a very good Nagelsmann interview in which he - amongst other things - gives his thoughts on World Cup squad selection. A lot of the basic criteria are not what you might think!

Thanks, Pia! Pleasure to be with you & @beveswelt.bsky.social :)

Just a brilliant day in FFM & spring weather for good measure.
Enjoyable win for Eintracht.
Thanks to everyone who came over to the Waldtribüne, a true #SGE matchday institution in Frankfurt.