"Play forward, not backwards" is the intent of Schröder's slightly sarcastic urgings, and it has become a familiar refrain heard by the new Australian arrival at the top Frauen Bundesliga club, based on the outskirts of Berlin.
That includes wanting to dominate midfield, based on a 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 mosystembs in the Bundesligas
What do we think – or know, I'm asking for help here – about the growing number of such Bundesliga-based players in the US squad and what they say about the unexpected fruits of US involvement and strategic investment in western Europe after the second world war?
But just as no eastern football club plays in the elite Bundesliga, none of Germany's biggest 30 listed companies, which make up the DAX stock index, is based in the east.
To get a list of the top 10, we turned to Castrol Rankings, which bills itself as the world's first soccer rankings system based on actual player performance in Europe's top five leagues La Liga (Spain), Premier League (England), Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A and Ligue 1 (France).
The study is based on data compiled by Impire AG, a German company that catalogues statistics on major European sports, including seven soccer seasons in the Bundesliga (85,262 fouls committed) and the Champions League (32,142), and three World Cups (6,440), a tally of more than 100,000 fouls.
Based on data provided by Opta and taking in "over 200 raw statistics", the top eight players this season across the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 are listed as follows: 1. Neymar (Barcelona), 2. Mahrez (Leicester), 3. Ibrahimovic (PSG), 4. Messi (Barcelona), 5. Costa (Bayern Munich), 6. Vardy (Leicester), 7. Suárez (Barcelona), 8. Lewandowski (Bayern Munich).
Under the watchful eye of Flick, who goes to all the Bundesliga games that require more than an hour's travel time from Löw's Freiburg base, Poldi was but an extra in the Cacau show at the weekend.
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