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European giants bound for Brisbane in landmark sports deal
One of Europe’s “big five” football leagues will bring expertise – and big-ticket games – to Queensland under a deal signed with the state.
- Cameron Atfield
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Ange, Nestor and co: These are the Aussies to follow in Europe
Almost everywhere you look across Europe’s most important football leagues, there’s a local storyline worth keeping an eye on this season. Here are the best of them.
- Vince Rugari
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Fifty-one and done: Atalanta stun Leverkusen in Europa League final
Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman scored the first hat-trick in Europa League and UEFA Cup final history to condemn the German champions to their first loss of the season.
- Padraic Halpin
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- Pop culture
Those boots ain’t made for skolling
The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey, but that’s no source of national pride.
- Cameron Atfield
‘Neverkusen’ no more: This is world football’s best fairytale since Leicester City
Bayer Leverkusen have never won Germany’s Bundesliga title before – but under Xabi Alonso, they’re unbeaten in 41 games and in contention for a remarkable treble.
- Vince Rugari
‘He’s gone to another level’: How Hrustic went from forgotten man to Socceroos star
Ajdin Hrustic began World Cup qualifying seemingly as a fill-in. Now, he’ll enter the do-or-die play-off against Peru as Australia’s major goal threat.
- Dominic Bossi
Socceroo finds perfect match in Germany’s home of pirates, punks and politics
FC St Pauli has fiercely remained a sum of its parts, and its culture has lured Australia’s own cult midfielder Jackson Irvine to the club.
- Dominic Bossi
Why the A-League’s brightest talent couldn’t refuse Stuttgart’s ‘Diamond Eye’
Sven Mislintat has made a career out of finding value in places where others don’t bother to look. Alou Kuol could be his next great success story.
- Vince Rugari
Kuol runnings: A-League’s brightest young star to be poached by German heavyweights
The teenager is on the cusp of a “life-changing” move engineered by the same talent-spotter who discovered Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
- Vince Rugari
Tasmania still the worst ever team in German soccer and they couldn't be happier
A Berlin football club with an unusual Australian link was worried it could lose its record for most Bundesliga games without a win.