8 years ago he was playing against Borussia Freialdenhoven in the fourth division: and now he is captain of Fortuna Düsseldorf: Andreas “Lumpi” Lambertz.
The Bundesliga has broken yet another record: Bayern Munich have paid 40 million euros for a new signing. Never in the history of the league has a club spent so much on one player.
Even growing up in Warsaw, Robert Lewandowski was a Dortmund fan. He was the top scorer in Poland's third division, before moving up to become the top scorer in the second division the next season.
In this week's interview, we speak to Augsburg midfielder Axel Bellinghausen. He was instrumental in helping the small Southern German club defy the odds and stay in the first division.
But Leverkusen are in just 7th place right now, and have had just a mediocre season so far. But according to German football magazine Kicker, their goalkeeper Bernd Leno gets the best grades of any keeper in Germany.
After 16 matches without a win, Kaiserslautern parted ways with coach Marco Kurz on Tuesday. Former Stuttgart star Krasimir Balakov will be taking the reins.
Nuri Sahin and Mario Götze may have gotten the headlines, but no one was more central to Dortmund's title drive last season than Mats Hummels.
Kick off! went to visit the new "old" coach from Schalke. He's the one who won the fans’ hearts - if not the championship - back in an incredible final round in 2002.
Kick Off talks to defender Andreas Hinkel for the third time. We initially met up with him in 2005 in Stuttgart, where he was one of the so-called “Young Wild Ones.“
Max Eberl is nicknamed the "Indian" - the result of former coach Hans Meyer remarking that a club needed Indians like Eberl and not just chiefs.
This summer, coach Holger Stanislawski moved from one of the most beloved, inconic German clubs, St. Pauli, to nouveau riche, new-kids-on-the-block Hoffenheim.
This week we talk to a player who's had his ups-and-downs. Midfielder Patrick Ebert was part of a golden generation which included the Boateng brothers.
At 6 p.m. on August 31, the transfer window closed in Germany. Up to that point clubs were wheeling and dealing and using every trick in the book to get more bang for their bucks.
Belgian Filip Daems was signed by Monchengladbach in January 2005. The 32-year-old defender's presence and dependability saw him quickly assume the captain's mantle.