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Football

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Robust Germany faces rising 'burnout' problem

Society: 6 Feb 12
Germany, holding up better than its eurozone partners in the current economic crisis, is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which is supposedly costing its economy billions of euros each year. READ »

Football legend makes Alzheimer admission

Society: 2 Feb 12
Macho German football legend Rudi Assauer says he has Alzheimer’s Disease, an admission one expert told The Local could help stoke discussion of an illness still considered taboo in many circles. READ »

US football star hopes to inspire fellow Germans

Sport: 2 Feb 12
Germany's Sebastian Vollmer is hoping his exploits at Sunday's Super Bowl showdown between his New England Patriots and the New York Giants might inspire some young Germans to join him in the NFL. READ »

German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria

National: 27 Jan 12
Gunmen on Thursday abducted a German engineer working with a construction company on the outskirts of the violence-hit Nigerian city of Kano, police said. READ »

Girlfriend blames Boateng injury on sex

Sport: 24 Jan 12
The girlfriend of German-Ghanaian footballer Kevin Prince Boateng has offered Italian media an unusual explanation for his recent thigh strain: the 24-year-old AC Milan midfielder loves sex too much. READ »

Millions needed to fix five-year-old rail bridge

National: 19 Jan 12
A bridge leading to Berlin's central train station needs repairs costing at least €10 million because of a cheap construction job done in a rush to get the station finished for the 2006 football World Cup. READ »

Football head: Gay players welcome

Sport: 18 Jan 12
The head of the German Football Association has called on gay football stars to come out of the closet and openly declare their homosexuality. READ »

Punkrockers ride to ice hockey team's rescue

Sport: 15 Jan 12
Cult punk band Die Toten Hosen are loyal fans of their local ice hockey team in Düsseldorf, so much so they have decided to come to the rescue of the financially strapped club. READ »

Footballers outshines English on Facebook

Sport: 14 Jan 12
As long-standing football rivals England and Germany gear up for the Euro 2012 soccer tournament this summer in Ukraine and Poland, the competition is also heating up online. READ »

Bailiffs chase football legend Lothar Matthäus

National: 13 Jan 12
Lothar Matthäus, one of the world’s most successful football players, is being chased by bailiffs who despite employing private detectives to track him down, say they cannot find him. READ »

One woman tackles neo-Nazi graffiti

Society: 12 Jan 12
While the recently-discovered Neo-Nazi murders dominated the German media for weeks, the drip, drip, drip of xenophobic graffiti rarely gets much attention. AFP’s Deborah Cole meets a woman tackling it personally. READ »

Football hooligans 'getting more violent'

Sport: 11 Jan 12
Violence at football matches in Germany’s top leagues has reached record highs, leaving police struggling to control it, the Interior Ministry said this week. READ »

Leverkusen fans frantic for Barca match tickets

Sport: 10 Jan 12
Desperate football fans swamped Bayer Leverkusen’s phone lines with 200,000 calls on Tuesday in a frantic attempt to get tickets to the club’s Champions League match against FC Barcelona in February. READ »

Hopes shine for Olympic gold in London

Sport: 9 Jan 12
With the Summer Olympic Games just 200 days away, Germany’s top athletes are putting their all into training, hoping to strike gold in London. READ »

Football tournament scrapped after fans riot

Sport: 7 Jan 12
The second day of a football tournament in Hamburg was canceled after violent clashes Friday resulted in numerous injuries and the arrest of 74 fans, organizers announced. READ »

Retiree 'set fire to homeless man'

Society: 5 Jan 12
The trial of a pensioner who allegedly set a homeless man on fire in July began Thursday in the western German town of Essen. The homeless man died from severe burns. READ »

The Local's top five animal stories of 2011

Lifestyle: 28 Dec 11
Animals are always amusing, with their funny wet noses and their general gullibility, and no-one loves animal celebrities as much as the Germans, so we collected the year's big animal stories. What was that bear called again? READ »

Officials investigate more football violence

Sport: 21 Dec 11
The German Football Association (DFB) said Wednesday it will investigate Bundesliga strugglers Nuremberg following the violent incidents which followed a 1-0 German Cup defeat at home to Greuther Fürth. READ »

Zwanziger could quit DFB before spring

Sport: 18 Dec 11
Theo Zwanziger said Sunday he plans to step down as president of the German Football Federation (DFB) before spring 2012. READ »

Bayern Munich 'will be even better' in 2012

Sport: 17 Dec 11
The football powerhouse of Bayern Munich will be even stronger in 2012, when Bastian Schweinsteiger and Arjen Robben are fully fit, coach Jupp Heynckes predicted. READ »

Leftists wants police pepper spray ban

Society: 16 Dec 11
The socialist Left party is trying to ban police in North Rhine-Westphalia from using pepper spray in what could be a precursor to attempts to forbid its use by cops nationwide. READ »

Club sells tickets to game fans can't attend

Sport: 15 Dec 11
German second division football club Hansa Rostock is hawking tickets to the team’s Sunday match against Dynamo Dresden. The only hitch: Fans won’t be allowed inside to watch the game. READ »

German football seeks new president

Sport: 5 Dec 11
German football has launched a bad-tempered search for a new boss after the shock resignation of the DFB football association president with a meeting to discuss the options set for this week. READ »

‘Nazi ideology is filled with terrorist spirit’

National: 2 Dec 11
A former neo-Nazi tells The Local how he broke out of extremism, describes violence in the far-right scene and offers his view of the latest revelations about neo-Nazi terrorism in Germany. READ »

Discovering Munich’s past in a mediaeval loo

Lifestyle: 1 Dec 11
Construction on an underground train line in the centre of Munich has uncovered mediaeval latrines full of artefacts offering insights into the Bavarian capital’s past. Christine Madden reports. READ »

Footballing robber wimped out in toilet

Society: 25 Nov 11
German footballer Guido Kocer admitted Thursday that his criminal career got off to a bad start when he got scared during a Berlin casino robbery and sought refuge in the toilet because his fellow gang-members were too violent. READ »

Berlin football scene hits fever pitch in expat fanzine

Sport: 25 Nov 11
A new expat-run fanzine offers a loving portrayal of the burgeoning Berlin football scene in English. READ »

Dynamo Dresden booted from Cup

Sport: 25 Nov 11
Second division outfit Dynamo Dresden have been kicked out of next season's German Cup following violence by fans in last month's exit to Dortmund. READ »

Celebrating ‘Dankbarzeit’ in Germany

Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
As millions of people prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, Jiffer Bourguignon cooks up her own German version of the intrinsically American holiday. READ »

Drought chokes shipping, sparks forest fire

National: 22 Nov 11
Prolonged dry weather is disrupting shipping on some of Germany’s main waterways, the Rhine and Elbe rivers. The drought has also sparked a forest fire in Upper Bavaria. READ »

Referee's suicide attempt not football-related

Sport: 22 Nov 11
A German top-flight referee who attempted to kill himself hours before a major Bundesliga match last weekend did not have football-related motives for the act, a report said on Monday. READ »

Vuvuzela court case begins in Bavaria

Society: 21 Nov 11
A Bavarian doctor who blasted a vuvuzela trumpet in front of his practice during last year’s World Cup is being sued by one of his patients for trauma. READ »

Referee attempts suicide before Bundesliga match

Sport: 19 Nov 11
The German league match between Cologne and Mainz was called off 40 minutes before kick-off on Saturday after the Bundesliga referee tried to commit suicide. READ »

Ballack enjoys golden autumn to his career

Sport: 19 Nov 11
Former Germany football captain Michael Ballack is back on form, scoring for Bayer Leverkusen on Friday night and earning glittering praise from his trainer. READ »

Court says no to misleading Nutella labels

Society: 18 Nov 11
A German court has told makers of Nutella to change the labels which it said were misleading, giving the impression that the nut-chocolate spread had more vitamins and less fat and sugar than it did. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 17 - 23

Lifestyle: 17 Nov 11
This Week's Highlights: African film in Berlin, computer art in Dresden, and Al Di Meola plays Stuttgart. READ »

Berlin project promises urban fish and veg 'Fresh from the Roof'

Society: 15 Nov 11
Ambitious plans are being drawn up in Berlin for what will be the world's biggest roof-farm, growing vegetables on top and breeding fish in tanks inside, in a self-watering and fertilising system. READ »

Marched down the aisle

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 11
Thousands of forced marriages take place in Germany each year. Many involve German citizens but society continues to look the other way, comments Cigdem Akyol from ZEIT ONLINE. READ »

Allotments grow on urban gardening generation

Society: 14 Nov 11
More than 150 years after the idea first took root, allotments are becoming hip with a new gardening generation in Germany. READ »

The top ten most influential foreigners in Germany

Society: 10 Nov 11
From military leaders to artists, CEOs to footballers, Germany is teeming with foreign talent. The Local kicks of its new series with a countdown of influential foreigners in an array of fields. READ »

Germany, Russia to launch Nord Stream

Business & Money: 6 Nov 11
The leaders of Germany and Russia will inaugurate the controversial Nord Stream pipeline pumping Russian gas to Western Europe Tuesday, highlighting its strategic importance to both sides. READ »

German team offered big bonus for Euro2012 win

Sport: 4 Nov 11
The German Football Association (DFB) has increased its win bonus for the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine next year. Each player will get €300,000 should Germany carry home the title. READ »

Dynamo Dresden face Cup ban for fan violence

Sport: 2 Nov 11
Last week’s fan violence at a Cup fixture between Borussia Dortmund and Dynamo Dresden is set to have more consequences. The German Football Association (DFB) is now threatening to exclude Dresden from the competition. READ »

Dortmund face crunch match in Europe

Sport: 1 Nov 11
Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp admits his side must beat Greece's Olympiakos on Tuesday to keep any hopes alive of reaching the knock-out stages of the Champions League. READ »

Masked men threaten footballer at home

Sport: 31 Oct 11
Five masked men broke into the home of Magdeburg footballer Daniel Bauer on Friday night and threatened him and his girlfriend if he didn’t improve his performance in Sunday’s regional league match against Halle. READ »

'Turks are a part of German culture'

Society: 28 Oct 11
Fifty years after the first Turks came to Germany, Michael Hofmann, an expert in Turkish-German relations, measures the influence the immigration has had on Germany. READ »

A global education - a Bavarian community

Education: 27 Oct 11
An international school near Munich provides so much more than a quality education. For many expat children and parents it also provides a vital sense of belonging to a community. READ »

Missing link in Roman conquest of Germany a 'sensational find'

Society: 27 Oct 11
Archaeologists are celebrating the find of a Roman military camp which was a crucial link in Emperor Augustus’ conquest of Germany – after more than a century of looking for it. READ »

Germany looks back at 50 years of Turkish immigration

Society: 26 Oct 11
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the treaty bringing hundreds of thousands of Turkish "guest workers" to Germany, a move which dramatically altered the fabric of German society. READ »

Football referees protest surging violence

Sport: 25 Oct 11
German referees are protesting what they say is an increase in violence and threats directed against them at lower division football matches. The situation has deteriorated to the point that some officials are boycotting specific teams. READ »

VW and Telekom workers accused of corruption

Business & Money: 17 Oct 11
The Stuttgart prosecutor’s office has indicted five employees affiliated with Volkswagen and Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems in connection with an alleged anti-competitive bribery scheme involving VfL Wolfsburg football club. READ »

CDU wants stop to EU talks with Ukraine

National: 12 Oct 11
Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign policy committee, has demanded a temporary halt in negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union after the conviction of former Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko. READ »

Özil wants to sit out Turkey football clash

Sport: 6 Oct 11
One of Germany’s high-profile ethnic Turkish footballers, Mesut Özil, has asked to sit out Friday’s match against Turkey to avoid angry Turkish fans – but has been told he has to play. READ »

Football fan killed by train while urinating on tracks

Society: 1 Oct 11
A German football fan died on Friday evening after urinating on a train track and being hit by a high-speed train. READ »

Heidi the cross-eyed opossum dead at three

Society: 28 Sep 11
Heidi, a cross-eyed opossum who became an internet and real-life sensation in Germany, winning three times more Facebook admirers than Chancellor Angela Merkel, died on Wednesday, Leipzig Zoo said. READ »

Burnout forces Rangnick to quit as Schalke coach

Sport: 22 Sep 11
Schalke 04 coach Ralf Rangnick on Thursday said he was resigning his post at the Bundesliga side due to extreme burnout syndrome. READ »

Bulgaria sacks Matthäus for Euro 2012 failure

Sport: 19 Sep 11
German football icon Lothar Matthäus was sacked as coach of Bulgaria on Monday following the national team's failure to qualify for Euro 2012. READ »

Turkish president urges integration, respect for Turks in Germany

Society: 16 Sep 11
Ahead of a visit to Germany on Monday, Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said Turks in Germany deserve more respect, but should also work harder to integrate. READ »

Hooligan violence raises football stadium worries

Sport: 16 Sep 11
Stadium security is extremely lacking in Germany’s lower football divisions, according to the unions representing police and security personnel, who believe the atmosphere is growing increasingly toxic at matches. READ »

Blackface Obama billboard sparks outrage

National: 15 Sep 11
German comedian Martin Sonneborn is well-known for jokes bordering on the tasteless. But a satirical political billboard of him posing in blackface makeup as US President Barack Obama is sparking outrage. READ »

Oktoberfest – the main tents

Lifestyle: 13 Sep 11
The Local's Oktoberfest guide tours the best of the big tents. READ »

US ambassador laments ‘racist jerks’ in Germany

Society: 8 Sep 11
Philip Murphy, the US ambassador to Germany, has written an open letter admonishing German ‘jerks’ for racially abusing a black member of his staff in Berlin recently. READ »

Fewer people abroad learn German

Society: 8 Sep 11
Around 15 million people are learning German as a foreign language overseas, five million fewer than just ten years ago, according to new statistics from the Goethe Institute. READ »

Second Hannover goalie battling depression

Sport: 6 Sep 11
Bundesliga side Hannover 96's second-choice goalkeeper Markus Miller has announced he is mentally exhausted and will check himself into hospital for treatment, just two years after the suicide of the club's keeper Robert Enke. READ »

Customers unlikely to see TelDaFax money

Business & Money: 2 Sep 11
The official insolvency procedures of energy firm TelDaFax have begun in a Bonn court, but refunds appear to be a pipe dream for most of the failed utility's 700,000 former customers. READ »

Alcohol ban begins on Hamburg public transport

Society: 1 Sep 11
A ban on alcohol in Hamburg's public transport system starts Thursday – though drinkers are being given one month's grace before the €40 fines are levied. READ »

Women footballers heat up the pitch for calendar

Sport: 1 Sep 11
Following a racy Playboy photo shoot by German football players ahead of the Women's World Cup this summer, twelve female footballers have gathered together for a sexy 2012 pin-up calendar. READ »

Rich call for higher taxes

Business & Money: 31 Aug 11
Wealthy Germans are joining what is becoming a European trend: Ultra rich people saying they are willing to carry a higher tax burden in order to help the continent’s economies struggling with crushing levels of debt. READ »

Lahm denies gay rumours in new book

Sport: 30 Aug 11
The captain of Germany's national football team Philipp Lahm said he is not gay, in excerpts of his new book released Monday, but he cautioned footballers against coming out. READ »

Bayern's Lahm exposes deep rifts with ex-coaches

Sport: 23 Aug 11
A new book by Bayern Munich and German national team captain Philipp Lahm exposes deep rifts with his former coaches Jürgen Klinsmann, Felix Magath and Louis van Gaal at the Bavarian football club. READ »

Bayern Munich players hit back against legend Kahn's criticism

Sport: 17 Aug 11
A war of words has broken out between current Bayern Munich stars Bastian Schweinsteiger and Philip Lahm and former goalkeeper Oliver Kahn over leadership of the Bavarian football club. READ »

Shit hits the fans at Bundesliga match

Sport: 16 Aug 11
Bundesliga matches took bizarre and unappetising turns at the weekend, with a Hoffenheim employee blasting Borussia supporters with a high-pitched siren – and Cologne fans showering their Schalke rivals with faeces and urine. READ »

Panic in train stuck in Hamburg tunnel for 30 mins

Society: 14 Aug 11
Panic broke out among 600 people packed into a dark, unventilated metro train stuck in a tunnel for half an hour in Hamburg on Saturday evening, after a fight at a station stopped traffic. READ »

Bundesliga preview: Bayern Munich looks to bounce back this weekend

Sport: 12 Aug 11
Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger insists his team must unite at Wolfsburg on Saturday to bounce back from last weekend's shock defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach in their season opener. READ »

1. FC-Nürnberg has most stylish football kit

Sport: 12 Aug 11
As the Bundesliga, Germany's top football league, kicks off its season, the College of Media Design (MD.H) announced the results of its own annual completion: the football jersey championships. 1 FC-Nürnberg is the winner. READ »

Footballers power past team Brazil

Sport: 11 Aug 11
Germany's young guns proved they are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with as they turned on the style to beat Brazil 3-2 here on Wednesday with rising star Mario Götze in dazzling form. READ »

Iron Age people gave interiors of dwellings a decorative streak

Science & Technology: 8 Aug 11
Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered a 2,600-year-old wall painted in colourful patterns, revealing that Iron Age houses were not the drab constructions they were once thought to be. READ »

Stuttgart off to a flyer in the Bundesliga

Sport: 7 Aug 11
Germany's Brazil-born striker Cacau warmed-up for Wednesday's friendly against the South Americans with a goal as 2007 German champions VfB Stuttgart beat Schalke 3-0 to open their season on Saturday. READ »

The changing face of Germany

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Aug 11
The definition of what it means to be German slowly appears to be changing – and that’s a good thing, according to The Local’s Marc Young. READ »

Muslim footballers allowed to eat during Ramadan

Sport: 3 Aug 11
The Central Council of Muslims said it was advising professional football players in Germany that they need not fast during Islam's holy month of Ramadan ahead of the regular season resuming Friday. READ »

Germany happy with World Cup qualifying draw

National: 31 Jul 11
Germany has often had the luck of the draw in World Cup qualifying group selection, and the story was no different on Saturday night in Rio. While its Group C competitors aren't lightweights, the challenge is manageable, officials say. READ »

Klinsmann named coach of US national team

National: 30 Jul 11
Former German international Jürgen Klinsmann was on Friday named as the new coach of the United States national football team to succeed the sacked Bob Bradley with qualification for the 2014 World Cup his prime mission. READ »

Giving beer a home in the Rhineland

Lifestyle: 28 Jul 11
Traditional beers are experiencing a renaissance among German drinkers. Alexander Bakst takes a tour of the Rhineland to compare Kölsch and Alt, two regional brews steeped in history and ancient rivalry. READ »

One killed, 15 injured in Bavarian bus crash

National: 27 Jul 11
One man was killed and 15 people injured, some seriously, when a Czech tourist bus crashed in Bavaria overnight. READ »

Duisburg mourns Love Parade victims

Society: 24 Jul 11
Thousands of people are expected to attend a memorial event at the MSV football stadium in Duisburg on Sunday to remember the 21 people killed in a crush at the Love Parade one year ago. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 21 - July 27

Lifestyle: 21 Jul 11
This Week's Highlights: Pyrotechnics in Munich, silent film in Hamburg, and sound art in Berlin. READ »

Underdogs Japan ready to topple giants US

Sport: 17 Jul 11
Japan coach Norio Sasaki has said his side are ready to pull off another giant-killing in Sunday's women's World Cup final when they take on two-time winners the USA in Frankfurt. READ »

Fallen media mogul Leo Kirch dies

Business & Money: 14 Jul 11
German media mogul Leo Kirch died on Thursday at the age of 84, ending the spectacular rise and fall of a man who built an empire only to see it crumble. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 14 - July 20

Lifestyle: 14 Jul 11
This Week's Highlights: A Bollywood festival comes to Stuttgart, Hamburg hosts a triathlon, and the Alvin Ailey Company dances in Berlin. READ »

US, Japan to face-off in epic finals clash

Sport: 14 Jul 11
Japan and the United States set up a clash for the biggest prize in women's football after seeing off European hopefuls Sweden and France by identical 3-1 scorelines in Wednesday's semi-finals at the World Cup. READ »

Berlin mayor wants to make Olympics bid

Sport: 13 Jul 11
Less than a week after Munich’s Winter Olympics bid was defeated, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said he wants the German capital to host the Summer Games. READ »

Women's football coach considers resigning after shock defeat

Sport: 12 Jul 11
Germany coach Silvia Neid said Tuesday she will consider stepping down following her team's shock quarter-final exit from the women's World Cup. READ »

The Women's World Cup is not over

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jul 11
Now that Germany have been tossed out of the World Cup and the black, red and gold flags are being packed away, we'll see whether women's football has really caught on, writes Robert Ide from Der Tagesspiegel. READ »