2 days ago
Pellegrino Matarazzo is proving to be an American success story in Germany. The New Jersey native has made the step up from Julian Nagelsmann s assistant to successful head coach in his own right with VfB Stuttgart, and is now ready for the greatest challenge in football right now with a trip to Bayern Munich.
It s been a long journey for the 43-year-old, and that only started with his move from the USA to Germany in 2000, fresh from earning a degree in applied mathematics from Columbia University. The defender spent a decade in Germany s lower leagues before settling in the reserves at Nürnberg. He would later become the team s assistant coach under Rene Müller and Michael Wiesinger ahead of being put in charge of the club s U17s in 2012.
4 days ago
We’re into the final straight in the 2020/21 Bundesliga season, and a number of clubs are jostling for position as the race for European qualification intensifies.
The top four qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, while the club finishing fifth will enter the group stage of the UEFA Europa League, together with the winners of the DFB Cup. Whoever finishes sixth enters the new UEFA Europa Conference League in the play-off round, unless the cup winner is among the top six. In this case, the club finishing seventh will enter the UECL.
bundesliga.com assesses the candidates…
Sebastian Rudy sent out an early sighter for the Stuttgart goal, missing by a margin, but signalling the Sinsheimers intentions to attack. It was therefore no surprise that a Hoffenheim player got his name on the scoresheet first, although the fact it was an own goal was unexpected. Adams was the unlucky blue-shirted player who turned Silas Wamangituka s cross into his own goal and did the hosts a huge favour. Unfazed, Hoffenheim continued to ask most of the questions and they very nearly levelled just before the break when Andrej Kramaric met Pavel Kaderabek s cross, but his header was turned away well by Gregor Kobel.
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Bundesliga in 10 games: Bayern and Leipzig fight for title, Dortmund battle for Europe, Schalke down
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1. Bayern Munich | 55 points: What a strange season this has been for the
Rekordmeister as they shoot for nine league titles in a row. Their shooting hasn t been the problem: Robert Lewandowski is on his way to breaking Gerd Muller s record of 40 goals for a single season and as a team (71 goals) they score on average once every 5.5 attempts, which is staggeringly efficient. Defending remains the question mark for Hansi Flick s team: This is Bayern s most generous campaign at the back in nearly 30 years, having given up 34. But if you can give Dortmund a two-goal lead inside nine minutes (as they did during the recent