Word: borussia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...team's starting goalkeeper at next year's World Cup in South Africa. He had played eight games for Germany since taking over for Jens Lehmann in goal after the European Championships last year. In his club career, he played in more than 190 Bundesliga games for the teams Borussia Moenchengladbach and Hannover 96 over a nine-year span...
Germany will be a favorite; it always is. "The Germans just find a way," says Kasey Keller, who played with Borussia Mönchengladbach. Keller remembers the mediocre German team that reached the World Cup final in 2002 and controversially beat the U.S. 1-0 in the quarters. "I could put you on the phone with some of those guys: how they got to [the final], they have no idea; they don't know how they did it, but they did it." This summer, the German team is more talented up front, and rock solid as ever at the back...
...stood in the standing room only section of a game between Borussia Dortmund and Kaiserslautern," Brill says, "and to hear the crowds sing and chant, to get thrown all over the place when a goal was scored...it was so exciting...
...with soccer. Many European teams wear corporate logos on their jerseys along with their club symbol. As one who grew up watching the North American Soccer League, I could not understand what Borussia Moenchengladbach had to do with Hitachi...
Football and bigotry seem to go hand in hand among some West German youth gangs. Fans for Dortmund's Borussia soccer team regularly sing Nazi songs and chant Heil, Hitler! in the stands and terrorize immigrants after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi...