Welcome to the Dortmund London Fan Club community podcast, join us for a fan led journey to the heart of the ‘die Südtribüne‘, BVB‘s Yellow Wall, the South Terrace of 26,000 fans behind the goal, one of the world‘s biggest single stands and greatest football fan experiences. On each of the shows, we meet guests from BVB past and present, coaches, players, writers and fans, our aim is to bring the world of Borussia Dortmund to English-speaking audiences with insight, commitment and ’Echte Liebe’. Amongst our guests so far we have had TV Presenter Rapha Honigstein, former coach Bert van Marwijk, former players like Philipp Degen, Knut Reinhardt, Niclas Jensen, Bernd Klotz, Andre Bergdolmo, Sunday Oliseh, Christoph Zimmerman, Steffen Karl and Mayor of Dortmund Ulli Sierrau as well as England legend Tony Woodcock and Celtic supporters clubs president Joe O’Rourke. Please note we are not the official podcast of Borussia Dortmund, we are a podcast run by fans of the club and are not affiliated in any way to the football club in Dortmund. The official Borussia Dortmund podcast can be found at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/borussia-dortmund-podcast/id1503379263 If you would like more information on joining our 100% unofficial fan club of BVB in London, go to: Facebook.com/Borussiadortmundfanclubengland Thank you for checking out our show, please subscribe and share with your friends.
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision-makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's show, our guest is a 45-time Ghana international and current U18 coach of NAC Breda.
The 1.77m former striker, played 17 matches for BVB between 2005-7.
The former Ghana senior international striker who gained 45 caps scoring 13 goals.
The now fourty-two-year-old's former clubs include Vitesse Arnheim between 1998-2005, playing 174 games in which he scored 72 goals.
He also played for Fortuna Sittard on loan for one season in 99/00. After leaving Borussia Dortmund he joined NAC Breda (Eredivisie) where he played 137 games scoring 43 goals.
In 2011/12 Amoah was transferred to the Turkish league where he played for newly-promoted SK Marsin Talimyurdu.
After a season in Turkey's Superlig, he returned to Holland to play for SC Heerenveen, before moving to Heracles Almedo where he completed his career in 2014.
Amoah scored 137 goals in 384 games in his professional career.
On today's show, we discuss life in the Eredivisie, the Bundesliga, the Turkish league, and the Ghana national team, a professional career that spanned 16 years.
1. First steps in football growing up in the Netherlands from the age of fifteen after coming from Ghana.
2. Academy life and playing with Vitesse Arnhem alongside players like former BVB Scottish striker Scott Booth, former Nottingham Forest player Pierre van Hooidonk and being coach by Ronald Koeman.
2. Bert van Marwijk and BVB come calling: A chance to join the champions league winner in the team with Sebastian Kehl, Dede, Tomas Rosicky, Nuri Sahin and Ebi Smolarek.
3. Two seasons in the German game, two top ten finishes but no European competition. Jurgen Rober and Thomas Doll follow on from Bert van Marwijik and competing with Lars Ricken and Jan Koller up front.
4. Highlights of two seasons at the Westfalenstadion including a hattrick in his pre-season debut, first appearance in front of the 'Yellow Wall' against Hannover 96, and a 6 goal thriller at Bayern Munich.
5. What is special about BVB? What could have worked better? What was different about the German game v playing in the Netherlands?
6. A spectacular return to NAC Breda and goals galore, a heroes welcome in Turkey and life as the big star signing. Before final seasons with Heerenveen and Heracles.
7. On the road with the Ghana national team, the magic of the 'Black Stars', the World Cup 2006 in Germany, a first for Ghana, reaching the quarterfinals and in South Africa 2010, getting to the the final of the African Cup of Nations in 2010 and meeting Nelson Mandela.
8. Post playing career coaching and media work and what advice he can give young players.
09. So near and yet so far: Why BVB will be back stronger; the current BVB season 22/23 and views on the squad and potential.
Social media.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's podcast our guest is Ed Aarons who is deputy Sports Editor at The Guardian newspaper and a Crystal Palace season ticket holder.
The long-awaited white paper on reform of the English game, a working document which was based on a consultation which took almost two years of fan groups, including the Dortmund Fan Club London, and a wide section of participants in the football industry including managing directors, club owners, journalists, former players, fans and supporters groups.
Among the key points the policy paper seeks to address, which we discuss on the podcast, are the following:
1. Financial sustainability: The introduction of a regulator will ensure closer monitoring and higher standards of reporting. Clubs will be required to ensure they have reserves and plans to ensure they can maintain the business in the instance of financial shocks.
2.Suitability of owners: Directors and club owners will be more closely vetted for propriety and there will be commensurate licensing conditions to ensure higher standards. This will also affect the over-gearing of buy-outs and unsustainable debt levels.
3. Fan engagement: Clubs will be required to consult with fans and there will be minimum standards of engagement including fans having a say, a veto over changes to historically important aspects of the club such as colours, badge and kit colours and geographic location.
4. Breakaway leagues: The white paper aims to protect the football pyramid in the English game and exclude 'closed shop' type leagues like the proposed 'European Super League'.
5. Financial distribution: The white paper aims to ensure a fairer distribution of income across the clubs in the English football pyramid and give power to the regulator to impose workable solutions on the clubs.
6. Compliance/sanctions: The regulator will have the power to take action including withdraw licences from clubs ignoring breaches of conditions of licensing.
The regulator will cover 116 clubs in the top five tiers: The Premier League, The Championship, League 1, League 2 and the National League of the English professional game.
A second part to the podcast series on the governance of German football will appear here shortly.
The football match to raise money for the DEC British Red Cross Earthquake Appeal 2023 which is mentioned takes place on Tuesday 7th March at 3pm at the Linford Christie Stadium, White City. There will also be a BVB and Chelsea raffle. All spectators are well.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's podcast our guests are 'Stamford Chidge' who is a board member of the shadow board at Chelsea FC and a season ticket holder, the man who calls Hampshire his home, is also the host of the Chelsea Fancast podcast.
Our second guest is Kevin Burgess a Leicester-based BVB and Liverpool FC fan, football blogger and member of the London fan club.
On the show we preview Borussia Dortmund's Champions League double-header against 6-time English champions Chelsea FC.
Between the 15th February and 7 March Borussia will play a double header against 'The Blues' in their first ever fixtures in 118 years.
So what can BVB expect? Seldom have the 2021 Champions League winners been more unpredictable. Thomas Tuchel is out Graeme Potter is in, results are very mixed, and the squad is one of the most impressive ever assembled in world football lets take a look:
1. How Chidge came to be a CFC fan, introduction to member Kevin and highlights of their fan lives.
2. A brief history of Chelsea FC,
3. The great and the less great who have played for Chelsea including Christian Pullisic, Pierre-Emeric Aubameyang and the ones who got away.
4. From Dortmund via PSG to Stamford Bridge, the Thomas Tuchel era and why both clubs 'should never have let him go'.
6. Following Chelsea in the Roman Abramovic era has been like 'Jimmy Hendrix on Acid'.
7. The January transfer window ultra spending spree and the 22/23 season under Graham Potter.
8. Memories of Gian-luca Vialli RIP.
09. What can be expected from the UCL tie.
10. A quick plug for the Chelsea v Dortmund London charity fan match.
11. Social Media.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's podcast we have two guests Stuart Rayner has played a good amount of football in his time and he is the chief football writer at the Yorkshire Post.
Connor Southwell is the Norwich City editor at the Eastern Daily Post, he is also the voice of the 'Pink Un' the Norwich City fanzine and a life-long member and season ticket holder at Carrow road.
The subject of our show is former BVB U23s coach David Wagner who was with 'Die Schwarz-Gelben' between 2011-2015. Frankfurt-born Wagner took BVB II to the 3. Liga in 2012. A very good friend of Juergen Klopp the 51 year-old went on to manage Huddersfield Town getting them promoted in 2017/18 and staying up the following season. Wagner managed Schalke for a year and a half achieving the 13th place in the Bundesliga. He then went on to YB Bern who he led to a second place finish in 21/22. But who is Wagner? What is his style? What did he achieve at former clubs and what can Norwich expect?
1. Life of Wagner playing career and early life
2. Stadion Rote Erde, the BVB II years
3. Kloppo and Wagner
4.Huddersfield Town
5. Gelsenkirchen times with Schalke
6. Following in the Gerardo Seaone footsteps at YB Bern
7. Legacy of die Kanarienvoegel and Daniel Farke
8. Norwich City rationale and prospects
09. Social media and acknowledgements
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Saturday Dec 10, 2022
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's podcast we have three guests Kai Dambach is a journalist DWTV match commentator and a Maryland native. Cedric van der Gun is a youth coach with 36-time Eredivisie champions Ajax and a former winger whose former clubs include Borussia Dortmund, Swansea and FC Utrecht. Cedric played 272 matches and scored 56 goals and was selected for The Netherlands U21 side 5 times.
On today's show we look at the footballing action in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The cup has been taking place in Qatar since 20 November and finishes with the final on December 18th and is the first winter world cup ever to take place.
The tournament has produced many upsets and surprises including the early exits of top sides including Spain and Belgium. As well as wins for smaller sides and a final four place for a team that 'came out of nowhere'.
1. A world cup in a gulf state, the first world cup in he Middle East. Has it been a good setting?
2. Novelties, the announcement of yellow cards, kick off count-downs, extra extra time, air conditioning and dyed pitches are amongst the new developments.
3. Surprise teams Japan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Cameroon.
4. First round exits for disappointing Spain, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Germany.
5. Croatia into the last 4 were they underestimated?
6. England does the quarterfinal exit mean the end of the 'promising generation' and Gareth Southgate?
7. How good are France really can they go all the way?
8. Morocco, the first African team and Arab team to reach the last four.
09. Will it be a golden send off for Messi's Argentina?
10, Some greats who will not be seen again at the best tournament in the world: Ronaldo, Pepe, Messi, Neymar, Witsel, Mueller, Robert Lewandowski, Luca Modric, Luis Suarez.
11. Social Media
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Vielen Dank für Ihre Interesse am BVB London Fan-Community-Podcast. In jeder Episode geht es uns in der Sendung darum, eine Facette des Lebens von Borussia Dortmund im Gespräch mit Experten und ehemaligen Teilnehmern des Vereinslebens wie Spielern, Fans, Trainer oder auch Journalisten, die diesen Verein in seiner Entwicklung beeinflusst haben, in der Podcast zu entdecken.
Unser Gast ist heute Martin Kree, der Verteidiger spielte zwischen 1994-98 beim BVB.
Der in der Dortmunder Stadt-Teil Holzwickede geborene, und in Dortmund aufgewachsener Spieler, absolvierte 6 Spiele bei der Deutschland U21.
Er machte auch 81 Spiele bei Borussia Dortmund zwischen 1994-98 und gewann dabei zwei Meisterschaften in 1995 und 1996 und die Champions League in 1997.
Martin Kree entwickelte sich als Spieler in der Akademie des VFL Bochum und spielte bis 1989 für diesen Verein.
Von 1989 - 1994 spielte er für Bayer Leverkusen, mit dem er 1993 den DFB-Pokal gewann.
In den Jahren 1995 und 1996 gehörte er zu der Mannschaft, die mit dem BVB die Meisterschaft und 1997 die Champions League gewann.
Insgesamt bestritt er 401 Profispiele und schoss 51 Tore.
Martin Kree ist seit 2012 Vorstandsmitglied des VfL Bochum und betreute den Aufstieg des Vereins in der Saison 20/21.
1. Die Bedeutung der Juventus-Spieler in der BVB-Champions-League-Siegermannschaft von 1997.
2. Wie ein Junge aus Holzwickede die Champions-League-Trophäe, den Höhepunkt seines Lebens, in die Höhe stemmte.
3. Erinnerungen an die BVB-Fußballspiele in der Kindheit in Westfalenstadion auf der Tribüne.
4. Die Fahrt mit dem offenen Bus zum Borsigsplatz "ich habe in meinem Leben noch nie einen Tropfen Bier getrunken".
5. "Eric Cantona war einzigartig, sein Trikot hängt immer noch an meiner Wand".
6. "Ich werde Old Trafford nicht vergessen, die besten Zuschauer, die ich in meiner Karriere erlebt habe".
7. "Es ist unglaublich, dass der BVB Fans in Großbritannien und anderen europäischen Ländern hat".
8. Erinnerungen an Tokio 1997 und den Toyota Cup.
09. Ein geplante London Reise.
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Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
The 22/23 UEFA Champions League draw season draw takes place this evening, to take a look at the groups and preview the tournament guests on the podcast are Conor Pfister from Ligue 1 champions PSG and Colin Farmery of WSC football magazine.
A social media lead and editor with 10-time French champions and 2021 Champions League finalists PSG, Maine-born Conor Pfister has a wealth of experience of producing digital media for some of the world's most popular football clubs.
A graduate of Canada's Bowdoin college, Conor also brings experience of the Eredivisie having worked for Ajax between 2020-2022.
Second guest is football writer Colin Farmery, Colin is a journalist with WSC When Saturday Comes, one of the most popular UK football magazines as well as The Guardian newspaper.
Colin is also the author of 6 books including 17 miles from Paradise and Desert Island Football Histories.
On today's podcast we talk about the Champions League draw, 32 teams are in the draw and BVB are in pot 3 along with teams including RB Salzburg and Shakhtar Donetzk.
The first ties will take place on 06/07 September with the final taking place in Istanbul on 10 June.
So who will BVB be drawn with? What are the prospects for the 8-time Bundesliga champions and what are the other ties of interest in the tournament?
1. Key dates, a winter break and a final in Istanbul.
2. Favourites for the trophy how far can BVB go?
3. Safe standing allowed, UEFA starts a trial including in the UK but will it work?
4. A focus on the draw, group by group favourites and key matches.
5. Stars on the ascend who to look out for amongst the players and coaches.
6. Social media and acknowledgments.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision-makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
The 22/23 2. Bundesliga season kicks off this coming Friday and to preview the season guest on the podcast is a familiar face for football fans in Germany, Sport 1 football presenter Ralf Bosse.
Ralf Bosse who is also presenter on Sport Radio Deutschland the national sports radio station in Germany has been working as a Bundesliga football presenter for over 25-years and has covered all the major tournaments including Champions League, World Cup and European Championship.
He is a regular presenter for 1. and 2. Bundesliga maches and DFB Pokal and has interviewed many of the good and the great of German football.
Bosse's recent guests include German national team coaches Hansi Flick and Joachim Löw, Marco Rose and Adi Huetter, Borussia Moenchengladbach's Valentino Lazaro and Ghana national coach Otto Addo.
On the podcast, we preview the 2. Bundesliga season ahead looking at which are the teams taking part, who are some of the key coaches and players, which teams are the favourites for promotion and which will be fighting for relegation in the coming season plus how do promotion and relegation work in Germany's second tier.
1. Introducing the league and how it works for promotion and relegation and the Christmas break and what will be different in 22/23.
2. The top half of the table the promotion candidates.
3. The bottom half of the table the relegation candidates.
4. A highlight of the biggest teams in the league including Hamburger SV, Arminia Bielefeld, 1 FC Kaiserslautern, Fortuna Duesseldorf,FC St Pauli Hannover 96 and 1.FC Nuernberg.
5. The teams from the Eastern side of Germany Hansa Rostock and 1 FC Magdeburg.
6. Predictions for the season 22/23 who is going up and who is going down.
7. Key stadiums to visit including classic grounds like the Bielefelder Alm and Kaiserslautern's Betzenberg (Fritz Walter Stadion).
8. Social media
Note: FC St Pauli beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in the league in 2001/2.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision-makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
Our guests on the show are Vinny Samways and Rimmel Daniel. Vinny is a former midfielder well-known in England for winning the FA Cup with both Everton (1995) and Tottenham Hotspurs.
Vinny Samways (1991) played for Sevilla FC in season 02-03 and for Las Palmas between 1996-02 as well as playing with Wolves, Birmingham City and Algeciras of the Spanish third tier as well as winning five England caps at U21 level.
Samways has been active in Spanish football for the last twenty years as a player agent and is also a football pundit on Spanish television and is based in Malaga.
Rimmel Daniel is a defender who has played for Gillingham and is currently with Grays Athletic FC near London and has won 5 senior caps for Grenada which he played for from U17-U20 levels.
Our show is an introduction to football in London, the good, the bad and the ugly. we introduce the biggest clubs and some smaller ones but with a big heart.
London is an amazing football city and there are few better guides than three Londoners who see the game from different sides:
Ben McFadyean is the host of the podcast, president and founder of the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club of London, the first to be founded in England and a journalist from Fulham, Vinny grew up in Mile End in the East End and Daniel is from Leyton.
Three different generations; the same passion for the beautiful game. For the teams, we talk about great players, great titles, fans and classic venues.
1. Arsenal; Founded at the end of 1886 by workers from the Royal Arsenal, the royal arms factories in Woolwich.
2. Tottenham Hotspurs The biggest rival of Arsenal, 'spurs' saw the light of day on September 5, 1882. In recent years, the club have performed so well that they have been part of the top 6 in the Premier League for the last five years.
3. West Ham United was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks. In 1900 the name changed to West Ham United and in 1919 the club joined the Football League (the predecessor of the Premier League).
4. Charlton Athletic plays its matches in the southeast of London. The Addicks play their matches in the iconic stadium The Valley.
5. Chelsea founded on March 10, 1905, is the only London club ever to win the Champions League. Since the first of July in 2003, Chelsea has been a permanent member of the top 6 of the Premier League.
6. Fulham founded in 1879, is the oldest London club to play in the Premier League. However, throughout history, interestingly Fulham has never managed to win a trophy.
7. Wimbledon now AFC Wimbledon has a fascinating history, having been bought and then rebadged and then refounded by the fans.
8. QPR was founded in 1882. They achieved the most important result in club history in 1967, when QPR won the League Cup.
09. Millwall from the south of London, was founded in 1885.
10. Crystal Palace is a South London football club from Selhurst in the borough of Croydon and was founded in 1905.
11. Social media and projects
Another club in the London area which is in the top two tiers is Brentford (Premier League).
Brentford known as 'The bees' were founded in 1889 and are based in West London, they play at the GTech community stadium which has a capacity of 17,250.Their greater achivements were the second Division title in 1935 and third tier titles in 1933, 1992. Their main rivals are Fulham and QPR. They play in white and red stripes with black shorts. Famous former players include Christian Eriksen, Marcus Gayle, Dean Holdsworth.
Addendum: Vinny was the coach of UD San Pedro in the Spanish fifth tier. The quote if you are bored of London you are bored of life is of course by Samuel Johnson.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision-makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
The 1.93m defender has notched up 350 matches at a professional level and scored 25 goals. The 34-year-old worked his way up through the BSC Old Boys youth system between 1993-2007.
He signed his first professional contract with Swiss top-tier club FC Thun in 2009. In 2011 he signed a contract with then Bundesliga team 1. FC Nürnberg which he stayed with until 2013. In 2013/14 he was signed by VFL Wolfsburg.
Klose was then hired by former BVB II coach Daniel Farke for Norwich City which he stayed with from 2016-2021.
In 2020-21 Klose spent a season at FC Basel before being signed for EFL Championship side Bristol City who are known as 'The Robins' who have played their football at Ashdon Gate stadium since 1904.
1. Swiss football roots, was football always on the cards as a career? Youth career with Old Boys Basel. FC Basel under coach former Borussia Dortmund U23 and Germany player Thorsten Fink and first professional contract with FC Thun.
2. Some great clubs and classic names for the clubs Old Boys, Grasshoppers, Young Boys, Xamax what makes the Swiss League unique?
3. 'Der Club' 1. FC Nürnberg the 9-time Deutsche Meister with Ilkay Gundogan and Julian Schieber under coach Dieter Hecking an impressive 6th place finish in 2010-11 and a 5-1 Pokal win at the Alm.
4. Two seasons with VFL Wolfsburg and a second-place finish and that 2015 DFB Pokal win against BVB, the story of Klopp's last match at the Berlin Olympiastadion, playing alongside Kevin De Bruyne and Ivan Perisic. Who are Wolfsburg really and are fans too harsh on the club?
5. Promotion and relegation at Norwich City's Carrow Road, a debut at Tottenham Hotspurs, first goal against Newcastle, that great black kit in 16/17, the 6 'Kanarienvoegel' flatter in, that shocking purple away kit in 17/18 and something of a win over Reading.
6. 2018/19 Campioni, the championship title and promotion to The Premier League, a 95th-minute winner at Ipswich, what was the special Farke factor? The 19-20 relegation battle and back to the promised land in 20-21.
7. Ashdown Gate and Bristol City. Life with 'The Robins', former Watford and Leicester coach Nigel Pearson and what makes Bristol a top place to be.
8. 'Die Nati' the U21 and Switzerland A team, the 2012 Olympics, 2014 qualifying matches against England at Wembley.
09. Social media and close.
We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.
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