Sports
Fußball (football/soccer) is sometimes called the national sport of Germany because so many people play it and even more people are fans. But Germany is not all about Fußball. Other sports such as hockey, tennis, skiing, cycling, handball, gymnastics and many more are also popular in Germany.
Attractive football, a fast game, plenty of variety, full stadiums and a colourful fan culture – that’s what makes the Bundesliga so fascinating. Just a few years ago, it was considered too static, comparatively backward and no match for Europe’s best. Now it has joined the ranks of the world’s strongest leagues.
Fascinating Bundesliga
Times have changed in Germany as a football country: nowadays, parents no longer take just their sons to training sessions on the pitch – they’re taking their daughters, too. Long gone are the days when the fascination of football was an exclusively male domain
Women’s football is booming in Germany
Sixty-one years after fast-footed men got the chance show off their skills to a worldwide audience, women entered the field for their first World CupGames. Now, 20 years later, they will play in their...
The history of women's football
It stands for fairness, tolerance and peaceful competition: International Sports Promotion of the Federal Foreign Office is a global success story and one example of how sport can build bridges across linguistic, political and cultural divides. In the past 50 years the Federal Foreign Office and its partners – including the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), the German Football Association (DFB), the German Athletics Federation (DLV) and the Sport University in Leipzig – have supported more than 1,300 sporting projects in 100 countries as part of its International Sports Promotion.
Sport without Borders
They are social bridge builders and promote international understanding: language and sport have more in common than one might initially think. How are they similar? Both create identity, have an integrative effect and bring people of different nationalities together.
How Language and Sport Break Down Barriers
Deutschland magazine on sports
Germany is mad about sport. The Deutschland magazine tells you more about it.
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Deutschland portal on sports
Fußball (soccer), hockey, tennis, skiing, cycling, handball, gymnastics and many more are popular in Germany.
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Sportal.de
Stay on the ball: Sportal.de delivers news on football, basketball, tennis, golf and many other sports. The portal reports what’s going on on the German sports scene and on American sports as well. Users who love Formula One and all the rest will find all the current tables, game schedules, rankings and statistics they need.
Fans of the biathlon or cross-country skiing can look up the times and dates of the events and find out which athletes will be at the starting line. The platform sends out news on the sports landscape conveniently via newsletter and ticker service into every corner of the country. A photo gallery records memories of tragic finishes, dramatic neck-and-neck races and happy champions.
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Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (German Qlympic Sports Association)
The Deutsche Olympische Sportbund (DOSB) is the world’s largest sports organization: Some 27 million recreational, amateur and professional athletes train under its umbrella. The DOSB sends the German Olympic teams to the Games, looks after them on location and fights against doping. The executive committee defines the strategic direction of the organisation. In doing so it focuses on the sportsmen and sportswomen on all structural levels. The main office is situated in Frankfurt/Main.
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Further links (in German)
Players launch it over the bar or thrill spectators with step-overs and nutmegs. Not many people other than football (soccer) fans would know what you were talking about here, but the “Dictionary of Football Language” by Armin Burkhardt could be of help.
Dictionary of Football Language
