Bundesliga
Analysis
Australian soccer
Ange, Nestor and co: These are the Aussies to follow in Europe
Almost everywhere you look across Europe’s most important football leagues, there’s a local storyline worth keeping an eye on this season. Here are the best of them.
- by Vince Rugari
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Europa League
Fifty-one and done: Atalanta stun Leverkusen in Europa League final
Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman scored the first hat-trick in Europa League and UEFA Cup final history to condemn the German champions to their first loss of the season.
- by Padraic Halpin
Perspective
Pop culture
Those boots ain’t made for skolling
The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey, but that’s no source of national pride.
- by Cameron Atfield
‘Neverkusen’ no more: This is world football’s best fairytale since Leicester City
Bayer Leverkusen have never won Germany’s Bundesliga title before – but under Xabi Alonso, they’re unbeaten in 41 games and in contention for a remarkable treble.
- by Vince Rugari
‘He’s gone to another level’: How Hrustic went from forgotten man to Socceroos star
Ajdin Hrustic began World Cup qualifying seemingly as a fill-in. Now, he’ll enter the do-or-die play-off against Peru as Australia’s major goal threat.
- by Dominic Bossi
Socceroo finds perfect match in Germany’s home of pirates, punks and politics
FC St Pauli has fiercely remained a sum of its parts, and its culture has lured Australia’s own cult midfielder Jackson Irvine to the club.
- by Dominic Bossi
Why the A-League’s brightest talent couldn’t refuse Stuttgart’s ‘Diamond Eye’
Sven Mislintat has made a career out of finding value in places where others don’t bother to look. Alou Kuol could be his next great success story.
- by Vince Rugari
Kuol runnings: A-League’s brightest young star to be poached by German heavyweights
The teenager is on the cusp of a “life-changing” move engineered by the same talent-spotter who discovered Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
- by Vince Rugari
Tasmania still the worst ever team in German soccer and they couldn't be happier
A Berlin football club with an unusual Australian link was worried it could lose its record for most Bundesliga games without a win.
Australian sports tech firm Catapults over virus
Listed sports technology outfit Catapult has avoided becoming a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and is ready to tackle the 'new normal' for professional sports.
- by Colin Kruger
'I could've dropped dead': Timotheou's journey from Schalke to heart surgery
In 12 months, the young Australian defender went from playing against superstars in Germany's Bundesliga to having a life-saving operation.
- by Dominic Bossi
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