After a week's hiatus for World Cup qualifiers, the Bundesliga is back for round 8. And this weekend features the mother of all German derbies.
Broadcast times
23.10.12 | 03:30 - 04:00 UTC 23.10.12 | 09:03 - 09:30 UTC 23.10.12 | 11:30 - 12:00 UTC 23.10.12 | 15:30 - 16:00 UTC 23.10.12 | 18:03 - 18:30 UTC
Wolfgang Overath was one of Cologne's best ever players. He played 765 times for the club, scoring 287 goals. He's won the Bundesliga once and the German Cup twice. And he was on the 1974 World Cup winning team.
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.
The German Bundesliga is booming, on the football field and financially as well.
Learn how Germany's soccer league (re)started
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