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Official: I Am A Jinx
By: Abby |Also, Josip Simunic is going to Hoffenheim.
More discussion later.
Younger Faster Better Stronger
By: Abby |“Hertha has to become like the city of Berlin: young, passionate, brave, open and direct.” So says Michael Preetz, the new Berlin manager. And it’s hard not to agree with him- while Berlin has turned into one of the world’s coolest cities, Hertha itself has been stuck in the image of die Alte Dame. Old, [...]
Just Who Is Michael Preetz?
By: Abby |He’d always been slated to take over for Dieter Hoeness, but Michael Preetz is now manager of Hertha a year before he was supposed to start the job. So who is our new boss?
Well, a familiar face, actually. Michael Preetz is Hertha’s former captain and all-time leading scorer. He played 227 games for Hertha from [...]
The End of an Era
By: Abby |Dieter Hoeness has been the manager of Hertha BSC Berlin for 13 years. He’s been the manager as long as Hertha’s been in the Bundesliga- since 1997.
As of this week, he is no longer the manager.
There’s a lot to be said for his tenure. Despite everything, the club has stayed in the Bundesliga since it’s [...]
Lulu Wins
By: Abby |Reports are coming in that say the Dieter Hoeness era is over. The details aren’t clear at this point as to what’s actually happening, but basically, he’s out and ex-captain (and record goalscorer) Michael Preetz is in.
This comes on the news that the coaching positions at Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen, both of whom had [...]
The Bundesliga’s Hottest Property
By: Abby |It isn’t Edin Dzeko. Or Franck Ribery. It isn’t a player at all, actually.
No, the most coveted man in the Bundesliga is the son of a farmer from Saint-Barthélemy, Switzerland, our very own Fußball-Lehrer Lucien Favre. After Hertha’s participation in this season’s title race and the eventual 4th-placed finish that he brought us, Lulu is [...]
Sunrise, Sunset
By: Abby |I needed a bit of a break before I could write this- the mix of emotions for a Hertha supporter over the last just about a week and a half. From highs to lows, hope to despair, and the final confusion of what, exactly, to make of everything?
I still haven’t read up on, much less [...]






