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Next season’s coming
By: jhb |And once again the world proves to be a village. In this weekend’s drawing for the DFB cup – which like last season marks the beginning of the season, I see a pattern there.. – we’ve been drawn to play at Lotte. Yeah, plenty of knowledge at wikipedia, huh? Anyways, the world being small etc., [...]
We have a signing!
By: jhb |Swedish midfielder Andreas Johansson is heading our way. Can’t say that his name rings a bell. 27 years of age (though looking at his wikipedia image, I’d say ‘age undefined’), playes for Halmstads, capped once for Sweden (this January), which is a good sign (I hope). I haven’t eben seen some youtube of him, so [...]
More breaking news – we have a logo for 2011..
By: jhb |For the women’s world cup, that is. The Ruhrstadion has been selected as one of the nine venues for the second world cup in Germany in the space of 5 years. For the occasion, the city and club have now produced a “composite logo”, which is basically a mash-up of the official world cup logo [...]
summer “news”
By: jhb |Not much happening at the Castroper Strasse. Rumour has it the VfL is in negotiation with the new shirt sponsor, whoever that might turn out to be. Several candidates to replace KiK (and their hideous red logo) have already turned away (Reno, and a local energy company), so it might be a very real prospect [...]
The Season Review In High and Lowlights
By: jhb |Finally, I am going to give a somewhat lengthy season recap, with more detail the longer back the events. My apologies for the length, I’m going to post a reduced version pretty soon.
Bochumers on international duty
By: jhb |Over the weekend, our Iranian striker Vahid Hashemian travelled to North Korea for a world cup qualifier. Apparently he played a little over one hour, and the match ended in a goalless draw. I didn’t follow the match, but according to USA today Hashemian missed two good chances early in the match. Still good to [...]






