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Where To Now?
By: Abby |
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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 doing this blog he’s been [...]
Younger Faster Better Stronger
By: Abby | 3 Comments
“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, [...]
Category: Team NewsJust Who Is Michael Preetz?
By: Abby | 1 Comment
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 Bundesliga’s Hottest Property
By: Abby | 3 Comments
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 [...]
Category: Team NewsFor Some Reason, This Happened
By: Abby | 2 Comments
No, that is not a random Photoshop job. Arne Friedrich met with Prince Charles and Camilla during their trip to Berlin. I’m not sure exactly why, except that he’s apparently a good person to have a photo op with these days.
It’s been exciting times for Arne, although perhaps not in the way he’d like. While [...]
Category: Team NewsWe’re Not Dead Yet
By: Abby | 24 Comments
Just when it seemed like the dreams were dead - 70 minutes into what looked like our fourth loss in a row - they showed a flicker of life. After the full 90, they think they’ll go for a walk.
The first half was one of those games where it looked like proof that our luck [...]
It Pours
By: Abby | 4 Comments
As the spring approaches and the Seattle weather turns to the sort of thing that we don’t tell outsiders about, all the clouds and gloom are coming instead from Hertha Berlin.
Saturday’s game against Hanover didn’t fail to stop our bad run of form; it just compounded it, with a 2-0 loss. That’s now three in [...]
Thud
By: Abby | 4 Comments
Did you hear that?
That’s the noise of the season crashing back to Earth.
It would come when I was starting to believe; when everything seemed to be falling into place and we would make things happen. I’d gone the whole season without letting myself get too far ahead of ourselves. I wouldn’t think of us as [...]
Category: Team NewsOnly Andriy Voronin Can Keep Andriy Voronin In Berlin
By: Abby | 2 Comments
In a manner of speaking, anyway.
Reports are coming in that we’ve got an agreement to purchase sexy-chested Ukrainian striker from parent club Liverpool. The only problem? It hinges on our qualification for the Champions League- the only way we can make enough money to afford him.
So basically, if Voronin keeps scoring the goals that [...]
Category: Team NewsHow can you expect to be taken seriously?
By: Abby | 3 Comments
When does this become real?
It’s a question that I’ve been asking myself, in regards to Hertha’s season. I’ve long been against considering us as title challengers. It seems odd that we would be. We didn’t start out even considering that option. The UEFA Cup was a serious consideration, and the hope was that we would [...]
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