http://hertha.theoffside.com News from Hertha Berlin German football team Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:36:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new striker before Austria (on the 10th of July)? How about a new striker today? Well, not so much a new striker. A returning striker. Artur Wichniarek has come back, signing a two-year deal. At Armenia Bielefeld he was known as King Artur and was their main line of offense, ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/transfer-news/the-return-of-the-king.html It's signed, sealed, and exit-interviewed: Josip Simunic has left Hertha after nearly 10 years. I honestly thought it wasn't going to happen. A bit of a boy-who-cries wolf scenario. A player can talk about leaving only so much before I stop believing him, and it seems that my entire time ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/team-news/where-to-now.html Also, Josip Simunic is going to Hoffenheim. More discussion later. http://hertha.theoffside.com/transfer-news/official-i-am-a-jinx.html "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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/team-news/younger-faster-better-stronger.html 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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/team-news/just-who-is-michael-preetz.html 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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/behind-the-scenes/the-end-of-an-era.html 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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/behind-the-scenes/lulu-wins.html 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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/team-news/the-bundesligas-hottest-property.html 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 ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/the-marko-pantelic-drama/sunrise-sunset.html As I was explaining to a friend of mine, while watching my third disappointing draw of the day, Hertha's result meant that they're out of a title race they should never have been part of in the first place. That doesn't mean it doesn't sting. But it does mean that ... http://hertha.theoffside.com/match-reports/we-didnt-want-your-stupid-salad-plate-anyway.html