Wolfsburg won his first title of the German Bundesliga to win 5-1 at Werder Bremen yesterday. Felix Magath's team ended the season with 69 points, two more than last year's champion Bayern Munich, which won 2-1 at Stuttgart in the last date.
Magath's Wolfsburg will train for Schalke.
"At the beginning of the season, I did not believe we could win the title," said Magath, soaked in champagne and poured that his players. "But I knew we had a good team, we played well and deserved the title."
Wolfsburg and Bayern vie for the Champions League next season. Stuttgart, which finished third with 64 units, will dispute the preliminary phase of the main club tournament in Europe.
Hertha Berlin, who lost 4-0 to the fallen Karlsruhe quarter ended with 63 points along with Hamburg and will play in the new League Europe (UEFA Cup before).
Frankfurt Hamburg overcame a 3-2 and finished fifth with 61 units. Karlsruhe and Arminia Bielefeld fell, while Energy repechaje a dispute with the third team for the second place in the Bundesliga.
The Brazilian Grafite scored two goals against Werder and ended up with 28 targets with artillery. His partner added an Edin Dzeko and closed the campaign with 26. Their combined 54 goals is a new record for the Bundesliga.
Origin - Mediocrity is the image that comes dragging Wolfsburg, the club just as the city of 120,000 in habitants, both synonymous with Volkswagen, the automotive giant.
Volkswagen owns the club, the finances, given the economic framework for living. Like the city, founded seven decades ago, when the Nazi regime installed at the site of Lower Saxony factory to be the "people's car", the Volkswagen.
In the early decades, The Wolves moved in the local and regional leagues, but he drew attention for the first time in 1995 when he was a finalist of the Cup two years later, he came to the millions injected Volkswagen took the first results, to achieve promotion to the First Division.
Things took a turn with a change in Volkswagen, took the lead when Martin Winterkorn, a fan of cars but also football, recognizing that all-or-nothing gamble and hired in 2007 to Magath, who came out two champion times with Bayern Munich.
The backbone of the new champion form goalkeeper Diego Benaglio, Swiss International, the coupling Bosnian Zvjezdan Misimovic, world champion Italian duo Andrea Barzagli and scorers, Grafite and Dzeko.
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5/24/2009 |
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