Bundesliga Splashes

Today’s Splashes do not really come from the Bundesliga as Germany played in China while Werder Bremen defeated Bayer Leverkusen in order to win the national cup, the DFB-Pokal.

Those who are students or did not had to work or whatever had the grateful opportunity to watch the China-Germany game at 0230pm (CET) on Friday. What they saw was a really horrible game as Lukas Podolski had to equalize early to bring the 1-1 draw home. Mario Gomez wasn’t able to score for Germany yet again, maintaining his two faces, the successful Bundesliga scoring performance as well as the international failing one. ‘Two Nations, One Passion’ was the motto of the China-trip, trying to make the Bundesliga and German football more popular in Asia. This did not only come a few years late after all other big European leagues have at least one foot in Asia’s market, but the only team who showed a bit of passion in this game, was the Chinese team. While they fought bravely against the apparently jet-legged German squad, Deutschland hardly did any advertizing with their performance. The next upcoming opportunity will be on Tuesday as they’ll take on the United Arab Emirates in hot hot Dubai.

Congratulations to Werder Bremen! The only goal of the match from Mezut Özil meant another DFB-Pokal win for Bremen as they’ll thereby have the desired chance to play in the new established UEFA-Euro-League after losing the UEFA-Cup final a couple of weeks ago. While the Bremen fans bid farewell to star midfielder Diego who leaves for Junventus FC and for retiring Captain Frank Baumann, the Bayer fans had to suffer a lost final once again. Bayer Vice-kusen’s Coach Bruno Labbadia is facing rough days now as he criticized his management before the game and is linked to several other Bundesliga clubs such as Hamburger SV where he should become the successor of Martin Jol.

See highlights of the final here!