VfB Stuttgart Americana

In episode 47, Matt and Travis break down the most recent match before answering the age old debate - Philipp Förster or Christian Gentner?!  In Part One, the home draw versus Wolfsburg is discussed as is John Brooks, defensive breakdowns on set pieces, the lack of offense anywhere, and Travis' ability to nail the contributions of Enzo Millot even before they took place.  In Part Two, the guys...

Join Matt and Travis as they break down the most disappointing defeat of the season, the 2:0 loss at Hertha Berlin.  In Part One, the fellas reminisce about Mario Gomez's goals, Kevin Großkreutz's tutelage, and Timo Werner's whining before doing some whining of there own when taking a look back at BSC:VfB.  Questions are asked regarding Müller's status, Mata's coaching, Sven's squad plan...

In this episode Matt and Travis start off by debating the immortal question - Sean Dundee or Cacau?! - before turning their attention toward the loss at home to BVB.  In Part One, they discuss the offensive opportunities versus the defensive breakdowns, including Omar and chip shots, Ito vs. Haaland, and whether much maligned goal keeper Flo Müller really came to VfB this summer with "large a...

In this episode, Matt and Travis start off by paying homage to old friend Alex Maxim before breaking down the disappointing 1:1 draw at Arminia Bielefeld.  In Part One, the fellas cover missed opportunities, Mata's apparent lack of trust in the bench, xG, Sasa's first ever penalty kick, Anton's "damned if I do, damned if I don't moment," and whether Sven's optimism is on target (unlike many o...

In this episode Matt and Travis talk about the Schwaben derby between Stuttgart and Augsburg!  In Part One, we talk Team Comeback and the amazing home support in which Sven Mislintat praised the "horny voices" of the home team!  WHOA!  Then we cover the defense missing Ito, the offense finding Tiago, the usual defensive breakdowns, our "love" of Markus Weinzierl, Omar's amazing free...

Matt joins us as we talk about the late draw at Union Berlin and give some praise to the Union fans before ripping their team apart for complaining about the officiating.  In Part One we break down the match, ask how Dino is playing, praise Mata’s tactical changes, and give some applause to the return of Mangala before Travis’ undying support of Sasa proves to be the difference in the match!...

In this episode, Matt and Travis get giddy over the first VfB win of 2022 and celebrate the return of the phrase "Sosa to Sasa!".  In Part One, we talk the players, the support, and pretty much anything colored white and red and with a brustring before moving on to the match itself.  Along the way we ask if the lineup is now set even without Mangala, ponder Coulibaly's bicycle kick attem...

In episode 40, we're joined by Matt as we break down the most recent hard-fought, gut-wrenching defeat, this time to Baden-Württemberg rivals TSG Hoffenheim.  Part One highlights the amazing away support, the newest lineup, and poor Pellegrino's inability to make a non-injury related substitution nowadays.  Part Two attempts to answer the most questions we've ever tried - emphasis on "tr...

In this episode we surprise Matt as we officially bequeath VfB Stuttgart Americana co-host status upon him!  Or blame him for being part of the podcast.  Or both!  In Part One, Travis admits he didn't even watch the match so he checks out the #VfBBOC stats to pepper Matt, who actually did watch the match, with all kinds of questions about the disappointing home draw.  In Part T...

Episode 38 is our one year anniversary and we celebrate in style by bringing back long-time hosts Jeff and Austin to not only review the most recent match but look back on a full year of podcasting about one of the most iconic clubs in all of Europe!  In Part One we review the recent match at Leverkusen, where the lads showed spirit but once again fell short.  In Part Two we take a break...

Episode 37 celebrates the end of the VfB scoring drought in style!  In Part One, Matt joins us to balance the initial optimism of matchday 21 with the residual disappointment of the final result before we then ask everyone to stop listening to us and instead head over to the Hey Eintracht podcast as they did a much better job of analyzing the match with the help of the amazing Derek Rae. &nbs...

In this episode we are joined in Part One by resident Freiburg supporter Austin who helps us break down yet another disappointing performance, this time a listless 2:0 loss on the road.  In a fairly passive-aggressive segment, Austin tells us why, "by the letter of the law" VfB should have been granted a penalty kick but why he agrees with the VAR decision to overturn the penalty kick.  ...

In Part One, Austin rejoins the podcast to help us break down the home loss to RB Leipzig and gives us his thoughts on the non-call against Alexis Tibidi in the RBL box in his "Are you REFFING kidding me?!" segment before we hand out our first ever Rust-Oleum (unofficial) Player of the Match award in which Austin will somehow incorporate the 1980s film Buckaroo Banzai into the conversation.  ...

In this episode, we travel deep to the heart of Texas and talk to Josh and Jens, two supporters who are both from Stuttgart - one from Germany and one from America (?!) who head the VfB Central Texas supporters group!  We first dive into their VfB origin stories before finding out what the soccer, MLS, and Bundesliga scene is like in the middle of Texas.  Then, in Part One we get Josh an...

In this episode Rob joins us as we review the results of our VfB Holiday Hinrunde Review and preview the Rückrunde!   In Part One, we summarize our Hinrunde Report cards and see where the club ranks (at least in the eyes of super knowledgable* Americans).  In Part Two, we take a look at some of the big player news heading into the second half of the season, talk about old friend Gon...

It's the second segment of our VfB Stuttgart American Holiday Hinrunde Review!  In segment one we chatted with Ted, Doug, and Daniel while in segment two we talk with Joe, Matt, Rob, and Robin!  In Part Four, we travel to Maryland and talk with Joe, a frequent contributor to the podcast, who started his VfB fandom after his FIFA career started off by being loaned from Barcelona to Stuttg...

Welcome to our first ever VfB Stuttgart American Holiday Hinrunde Review!  In the next few episodes we'll chat with local(ish) American-based VfB supporters to get their thoughts on the first half of the season.  We'll give VfB a report card for their performance, name team MVPs, and predict the future of the club's success heading into 2022.  To get started, in Part One of Episode...

In this episode Matt joins us to celebrate VfB ending the hinrunde in the playoffs!  Which, as it turns out, is nothing to celebrate.  Be that as it may, in part one we break down the last minute loss to Effzeh, compare the threatening crosses of the home team to the toothless dribbling of VfB, discuss the same 'ol same 'ol, ask some uninformed questions about substitution patters, and t...

In this episode we briefly break down match day 16 before spending as much time as possible on the final match of 2021!  And as a special treat, California's resident Hennes supporter Jeff joins us FOR THE ENTIRE EPISODE!  In part one we talk about the loss to Bayern as little as possible before moving on the part two and listener questions, discussing our views on a particular defe...

In episode 28 we are joined by Matt as we break down the 0:2 win at Wolfsburg!  In part one we discuss everything we know about this much needed win (which is different than everything there IS to know), including how Matt knew VfB would win (The Rule of Florian), Dino's power goal, our combined love of Philipp Förster, the maddeningly positive chaos of Coulibaly, and that cheeky fella on loa...

In part one of episode 27 we break down the 2:2 draw versus Hertha Berlin with special guest Ed @edzelaski from @bearcast1892!  Not only is Ed an official Hertha supporter, but he's also from Cleveland, meaning this podcast goes out of it's way to be Cleveland-centric as we force you to listen to our thoughts on the impact of FIFA2000, AFC Cleveland, and the greatness of local soccer legend V...

In Parts 1-3 of Episode 26, our longest episode to date, Matt joins us once again as VfB gets back to that winning feeling at home versus Mainz 05!  In an incredibly lengthy review (hey, we haven't won in a while, give us a break), we talk the big 2:1 home win versus Mainz, answer some listener questions about how the team will look once healthy, and preview the upcoming match versus Hertha a...

In episode 25 part-time co-host Matt joins us to review the most recent match versus Dortmund as we celebrate a "good" loss before we look forward to the home match versus Mainz and predict the future of the rest of the Bundesliga.  Along the way we kick Austin off the podcast for supporting a team that's too good, add Matt for supporting a team that's in the "playoffs," answer Joe's question...

In Part One of episode 24, we break down the home loss to Bielefeld by trying to ignore the home loss as much as possible.  In Part Two we give our Good, The Bad, and The Ugly breakdown as Austin tries to hijack the show by adding a question and answer period to the segment.  We do, in Part Three though, answer some listener questions on who our favorite VfB players of today, yesterday,...

In episode 23 we review the debacle of a result on the road to the Mighty Flaming Acorns, consider which is uglier, the team's form or the team's increasing injury rate, answer a pretty interesting listener question with a less-than interesting answer, get some random thoughts from part-time co-host Jeff, and make our predictions for the increasingly huge VfB match versus Bielefeld.  Along th...