The future of German football with Raphael Honigstein
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is here to talk about the future of German football with Raphael Honigstein.
How much of Dortmund’s season was down to the way that Bayern’s season unfolded?
What went wrong for Julian Nagelsmann at Bayern?
Are Leipzig set up to challenge Bayern?
Is the 50+1 rule holding back German teams in the Champions League?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as ever by my good friend and producer, Mike Zimmerman and Mike. |
| 0:16.9 | How are you doing? I'm doing good, John. Just getting used to this summer heat now. How are you? |
| 0:21.2 | Yep, it's pretty, pretty warm over here as well, but we don't get a huge amount of warmth here in the UK, so I always make the most of it whenever it does crop up. But we've got a really exciting episode for our listeners today. Do you want to tell them a little bit about it? Yeah, so we had Ralph Hanekstein on to talk about the future of German football, kind of looking back at this past season, whether Dortmund blew their chances for a title in the near future, whether or not their current model is right for sustained success. |
| 0:49.4 | And we look at Bayern as well. |
| 0:50.6 | They had a down season, whether or not they'll bounce back. |
| 0:53.0 | And whether Leipzig is now taking over Dortmund as Byron's best title challenger. And yeah, I think it's a really, really interesting time for the Bundesliga, given the way that global football is moving and changing. And in many respects, there's lots of, you know, small sea conservatism about German football things. One of the things that Rafa said |
| 1:11.9 | was actually that there's an extent to which German football fans want to keep everything the |
| 1:15.3 | same and it feels as though football fans around the rest of the world want to move things forward. |
| 1:19.7 | They want to always be progressing into these new and bigger and better moments all the time, |
| 1:25.0 | usually through the use of vastly superior financial backing. |
| 1:29.1 | And so I think there's plenty for fans of football to get their teeth into there. |
| 1:32.9 | So I think the best thing for us to do is to just get straight into the episode, right? |
| 1:36.3 | Let's do it. |
| 1:37.2 | And so here we are with Raffer Honigstein, senior writer at The Athletic. |
| 1:50.1 | Music at The Athletic. So I'm joined today by Rafael Honigstein, a senior writer at The Athletic, who can also be found |
| 1:54.8 | at Desh Beagle on BT Sport and on the excellent podcast, Beer and Honey Podcast with his |
| 2:00.3 | co-host, Christoph Beerman. |
| 2:02.4 | Raffert, it's great to have you on today. |
| 2:03.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 2:05.2 | So today we're going to talk all about the future of German football. |
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