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Featured Story #1

Americans in the Bundesliga: Six Actors Covered in Week 20

Round 20 of the 2022/23 German Bundesliga welcomed back an American head-coach to the sidelines. Hoffenheim’s Pellegrino Matarazzo received a graded section in this installment, as did five other players.

Shadow Scholar Syndicate

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  • FEM 2022–Final Goodbyes and Championship Pick
  • Final S.S.S. Index (2002-2022)
  • FEM 2022–Day Nineteen Recap
  • FEM 2022–Day Eighteen Recap
  • FEM 2022–Semi-finals
  • FEM 2022–Day Seventeen Recap
  • FEM 2022–Day Sixteen Recap
  • FEM 2022–Day Fifteen Recap
  • FEM 2022–Day Fourteen Recap

Featured Story #2

Americans in the Bundesliga: Paredes leads the Pack in 2023’s Second Report

The second “Americans” column of the new calendar year took round 19 of the 2022/23 German Bundesliga into account. A player highly praised in the previous piece earned top marks.

Featured Story #3

Americans in the Bundesliga: Five Players Assessed in 2023’s First Report

Another multi-match column caught up with the work of U.S. actors after the turn of the most recent calendar year. Three German Bundesliga rounds and the DFB-Pokal Round-of-16 were assessed.

Magazines
Five years, 4,073 articles and counting.

2023-2024 Ball

Bulinews.com

2023/24 Bundesliga Season

Articles (214 and counting)

  • Freiburg award Atubolu another new contract: “We will support him.”
  • Heidenheim’s Maloney targets USMNT: “My heart beats for the USA.”
  • Kane ready to step on the pitch: “I’ll be right there for the Supercup.”

Columns

  • Bundesliga Tactics Talk
  • Bundesliga Americans

Bulinews.com

2022/23 Bundesliga Season

Articles (1,397)

  • Darmstadt ecstatic after promotion: “Don’t give a damn if we tear the house down.”
  • Füllkrug jokes about setting new record goalscoring low: “A good horse jumps only as high as it must.”
  • Klos comments on relegation and future: “No tears left in me after last week.”

Columns

  • Bundesliga Tactics Talk
  • Bundesliga Americans

Bulinews.com

2021/22 Bundesliga Season

Articles (1,120)

  • Defeated Mittelstädt and Lotka explain decision to lay jerseys before ultras: “The fans gave us everything.”
  • Zoller and Riemann react to fan incident: “You have no place in the stadium!”
  • Felix Nmecha and Patrick Osterhage among new additions to di Salvo’s Juniors

Columns

  • Bundesliga Tactics Talk
  • Bundesliga Americans
  • Fans in the Bundesliga

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Bulinews.com

2020/21 Bundesliga Season

Articles (1,056)

  • Bundesliga’s conclusion: Rostock secure first promotion in over a decade, FC Bayern II relegated to fourth tier
  • Müller, Neuer, Alaba, and others react to Flick’s decision: “He didn’t need to explain it to us.”
  • Day Three of ‘Super League’ Legal Fight: Germany stands on European football’s fault line

Columns

  • Bundesliga Tactics Talk
  • Bundesliga Americans
  • Fans in the Bundesliga

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The Runner Sports

2019/20 Bundesliga Season

Articles (127)

  • 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup
  • NWSL
  • UEFA Women’s Champions League
  • 2020 SheBelieves Cup
  • Footy Book Reviews
  • COVID-19 Sports Related News
  • Various other Football Essays

Columns

  • Bundesliga Bulletin
  • Americans in the Bundesliga
  • Bundesliga UEFA Report
  • Nationalelf Tactical Focus

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