Even the greatest teams suffer. Mention 1991/92 to Bayern Munich fans and they’ll shudder about a year of minnow defeats and mediocrity
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In 2010 Kevin-Prince and Jérôme Boateng would make history as the first brothers to play against one another in an international match
With a surname meaning “golden ball”, one Altıntop would appear for some of the biggest clubs, whilst the other stayed in their birth nation
Circumstances meant Johan Micoud didn’t get the acclaim his talent deserved, but the adulation of those in Bremen more than makes up for it
Before RB Leipzig emerged on the scene a few years ago, East German football was irrelevant in the great scheme of things
Union Berlin in the 2001 UEFA Cup: the club that made their European bow before their Bundesliga one
Small and largely ignored in the German football spectrum, in 2001 Union Berlin burst onto the map thanks to an iconic DFB-Pokal run
Rebranding former Bundesliga chasmpions Eintracht Braunschweig to Jägermeister Braunschweig would have far-reaching consequence for the world of football
A hero to many of the game’s greats, a player who struck fear into Paolo Maldini, Cha Bum-kun came to Europe and conquered as it’s first great Asian import
In the history of Bayer Leverkusen, no man has done more, seen more or won more at the club than former goalkeeper and all-round hero, Rüdiger Vollborn
In 2010, Mesut Özil was untouchable for Werder and Germany. He was elegant, audacious and daring. He was, and always will be, unapologetically, Özil
Featuring a goat that’s named after one of the club’s greatest managers, the 1. FC Köln logo is one of German football’s most interesting and recognisable
The tale of Sebastian Deisler’s career is a dismaying one, but it was also important in raising awareness of depression in football and the reality for many
in a script aptly suited to the screens of Hollywood, Giovanni Trapattoni’s wild, Oscar-worthy four years will surely stay with him, and the fans, forever
Between the DFB-Pokal, UEFA Cup and Bundesliga, Werder Bremen and rivals Hamburg would unforgettably face each other four times in 19 days in 2009
Why Owen Hargreaves never quite found the adulation he surely deserved in Canada, Germany or England
Owen Hargreaves could have had it all and, in some ways, he did – there’s just a niggling feeling that it could’ve been so much more
A freak of nature, Lothar Matthäus should long be remembered as one of the most complete footballers to ever play the game
Every sugar-coated pass and madcap dash from the goal that football taught him he could never leave only serve to carve Neuer’s name deeper into stone
As Schalke grew into one of German football’s early powers, migrants from modern-day Poland would stream into Gelsenkirchen – and become legends