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 In the short two years he's been in Germany, Matt Hermann has become a Bundesliga junkie, and he’s happy to have found a job where he can get paid to watch it. On those "working" weekends you'll hear him hosting Deutsche Welle Radio's Sports Report; other weekends you’ll find him drinking at various taverns in Cologne or Bonn, because he's too cheap to spring for satellite TV at home. As far as where his loyalties lie, Matt follows the fortunes of his old loves, the Uniteds of D.C. and Manchester, but the German club he stays up at night worrying about these days is Hertha BSC. |
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| 31.07.2008 |
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 Jefferson Chase is an American journalist whose first encounter with "saw-ker" came in grade school, where he played sweeper and perfected the art of kicking smaller boys in the shins. Years later, while teaching German at an English university, he decided to support Arsenal because they had a firearm in their logo. The Arse went on to win the double, clinching the league title at Old Trafford -- and a love affair was born. In 1999, Chase moved permanently to Berlin, where he developed a similar, if infinitely less rewarding relationship with city's only first-division club, Hertha. His hobbies include spending sunny afternoons in dimly lit barrooms screaming at television screens. |
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| 30.07.2008 |
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 A native of the United States, Sean has relished in the ever-present glow of first-rate soccer since moving to Europe nearly six years ago. A national team devotee, he is still working to develop fervor for the Bundesliga that approaches that of a German male's. As a traditional supporter of the underdogs, Sean has spent the past two seasons trying to think of reasons not to like Bayern Munich and is running out of reasons -- suggestions are welcome. (This is the only time Sean will talk about himself in the third person.) |
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 Nick has been covering the Bundesliga and international soccer tournaments for DW-WORLD.DE since 2001 and despite being a Premiership snob he has cultivated an appreciation of the German game over the years. Having briefly flirted with Borussia Dortmund and FC Köln on whose terraces he also expanded his repertoire of Germanic expletives, Nick is now a Bundesliga neutral while maintaining a life-long (although ex-pat) commitment to his beloved Liverpool FC. He sometimes wonders, however, if he would be better off following Schalke 04. |
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