Posts by David Bevan

July 3, 2012

Euro 2012: Germany Pick Up the Pieces, Joachim Löw Shoulders the Blame

On Sunday in Germany, Joachim Löw was everywhere all at once. In the Frankfurt airport, his frown was plastered across nearly every paper on the stand. The Frankfurter Allgemeine, a burly broadsheet not unlike the the Wall Street Journal in this country, featured an illustration of his face on its front page, crumpled and then […]

May 16, 2012

The Present and Future of Borussia Dortmund

This didn’t feel like just another end to a season. In the hours following Borussia Dortmund’s 5-2 triumph over Bayern München in Saturday’s DFB Cup Final in Berlin, we were gifted with reactions as illuminating as the bit of theater that unfolded on the Olympiastadion pitch earlier that night. The victors were flush. Bayern CEO […]