
Football dispatches from a patchwork nation. Played in Germany is a regular, English-language dispatch on German football and what it tells us about the country at large.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 15 | Founded | 9 months ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Photo: Getty/Bundesliga International
For just a few seconds, Vincent Kompany let it all hang out. As the Südkurve chanted his name, the Bayern Munich coach stepped forward and started punching the air in a frenzy, bellowing in joy at ever...
Bayern’s Senegalese striker Nicolas Jackson may be stripped of his AFCON winner’s medal after the title was retroactively handed to Morocco this week. (Credit: Bundesliga Collection via Getty Images)
Football’s descent into self-parody con...
Ninety years on from Adolf Hitler's first and only visit to a football match, Berlin is once again hoping to host the Olympic Games.
At the end of January, Berlin mayor Kai Wegner fired the starting gun on his city’s bid to host the Olympi...
Reform, realpolitik and Cold War rivalry: Why almost every major club from the former GDR celebrated its 60th anniversary in the last few weeks.
Temperatures were below freezing in south-east Berlin last Tuesday, and the floodlights were v...
Bayern Munich are once again ruling the Bundesliga with an iron fist. But are Vincent Kompany's side good enough to win the treble?
The evil empire is back! No, not that one. Although in a world where even the most basic of old certainties...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Kit Holden is a British-German author and journalist based in Berlin. He has covered German football for over a decade for Der Tagesspiegel, AFP, The Athletic and others. His two books are "Scheisse! We're Going Up!" and "Played in Germany".
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