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A Patriotic Guide to the Bundesliga

Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski (9) and Thomas Muller (25) celebrate a goal We, as sports fans, have been wandering aimlessly in the Sinai Desert for the last forty years, with no new sporting content. Okay, maybe it’s only been two months, but it feels like forty years. We have sadly subsisted on manna in the form of the NFL Draft-a-thon , classic games, The Last Dance, and *sigh* televised H-O-R-S-E. But, at last, sports are beginning to return. The Korean Baseball Organization returned this week, the MLB is gearing up for an epic labor battle, and the German government has returned like Moses, strolling down from the Mount with The Eleven Page Plan for Playing Soccer Again. That’s right--the Bundesliga is back next Saturday, and we will once again have high level sports to distract us. There’s just one small problem; it’s German soccer, and many Americans are not too familiar with the dynamic players, why Bayern always wins and why everybody hates RB Leipzig. So, I...