VIDEO: St. Pauli Goalkeeper Tschauner scores a goal with his head!

Once in a while you see towards the end of a match the goalkeeper of the losing team come up as a last resort for a corner, but rarely do you see the keeper score. That happened last night at the 2.Bundesliga match between St. Pauli and Paderborn with Pauli keeper Philipp Tschauner heading in the 2-2 equaliser in injury time.

Coach Robin Dutt: Its important taking time off for private things!

Coach of Indian origin Robin Dutt in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt spoke about lessons he had learned and things he would change after having been fired by Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen on April 1, 2012.

One of the things which he would change at his next club would be that he would take some days off, spend sometime on his hobbies and recreation to recharge his batteries and reduce the pressure through Dutt continued to say that being a football coach in the Bundesliga was his dream job.

Since being fired by Leverkusen in April, Dutt had taken time off football to recharge his batteries and had not given any interviews to stay out of the media attention. About the break he said, "Because I was coaching for 18 years going from job to job I did not have any proper break."

"I was always preparing the next season and was tense," Dutt added.

About his future plans Robin Dutt said he was not looking at coaching options abroad and would wait to see what happens after the start in Germany with him open to options in the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga.

Bundesliga Column - Round 34: Cologne relegated, Hertha Berlin get relegation spot

As is usual in the last couple of German Bundesliga rounds all nine matches of Round 34, the final match day of the 2011/12 season were played simultaneously at 15.30 CET on Saturday. This is to ensure same chances for everyone fighting for the title, places in Europe and against relegation.

And what a match day it turned out to be though key decisions on champions, first team to be relegated and who gains places for Europe next season had already been taken. Champions Borussia Dortmund trashed an inform SC Freiburg 4-0 to finish with 81 points, a new record in the history of the Bundesliga.

The eyes were all on the relegation battle between 1.FC Köln and Hertha BSC Berlin, who would get relegated directly and who would get a second chance in the relegation playoff against the third-placed side in the 2.Bundesliga. FC Cologne that the difficult task of facing record champions FC Bayern Munich at home, while Hertha BSC Berlin faced 1899 Hoffenheim who had nothing to really play except that their coach Markus Babbel had been Hertha coach earlier on in the season.

As one would have expected Cologne suffered a 1-4 defeat at the hands of Bayern Munich, but Hertha Berlin won 3-1 against Hoffenheim to push Cologne into Division 2 while they face Fortuna Düsseldorf in the relegation playoff in the coming days to decide to play Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga next season.

The last Europa League spot was grabbed by Hannover 96 who beat relegated 1.FC Kaiserslautern 2-1 while VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen and 1.FC Nürnberg all lost in their quest for European football next season.


Round 34 Results

Borussia Dortmund 4-0 SC Freiburg
Hertha BSC Berlin 3-1 1899 Hoffenheim
FC Augsburg 1-0 Hamburger SV
1.FC Nürnberg 1-4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
SV Werder Bremen 2-3 FC Schalke 04
VfB Stuttgart 3-2 VfL Wolfsburg
Hannover 96 2-1 1.FC Kaiserslautern
1.FC Köln 1-4 FC Bayern München
1.FSV Mainz 05 0-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach

Record TV revenue for German Bundesliga

The German Football League (Deutsche Fussball Liga, DFL) yesterday announced the new television contract for the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga following an extraordinary general meeting of the 36 current clubs and capital companies of the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga in Frankfurt/Main. The new deal for the four seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17 which will see an increase in revenues of 52% from around 1,6 Billion Euros to over 2,5 Billion Euros. That amounts to about 628 Million Euros per year on average, compared with 412 Million Euros per year of the current three year deal which ends next season.

The DFL maintained what it called the 'Classic' television coverage for the next cycle as pay TV channel Sky continues to show all matches of the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga live acquiring the pay-TV rights for cable, satellite, terrestrial and IPTV, as well as web TV and mobile phone distribution; which overall is more then in the current package which it had shared with the German Telekom.

The DFL also has maintained its free-to-air packages with ARD, ZDF and Sport1. ARD will continue to show Bundesliga from 18.30 onwards on Saturdays with the ZDF showing the late Saturday kick-off game in its Sportstudio program, while Sport1 can show highlights on Sunday morning as well as in its Doppelpass talkshow.

The ARD will furthermore continue to offer highlights of the Sunday matches and has also secured a seven-game package for live broadcast on free-to-air TV. This encompasses the opening games of the season and post-winter break restart, the promotion/relegation play-offs and the pre-season Supercup.

For the first time, the Axel Springer publishing house has secured utilisation rights from the DFL. From 2013-14 onwards, Axel Springer especially through its Bild.de platform will be able to offer clips from all the games on web TV and mobile phone networks. The clips will be available for a fee from an hour after the end of the games, and for free after midnight of the same day.

The DFL's CEO Christian Seifert said, "The agreement fuses traditional viewing patterns with innovative, forward-looking possibilities. Factoring-in the additional international revenues, the German professional game will be generating some 700 million euro annually from the central marketing of media rights in the years ahead. With that, the Bundesliga is consolidating its position as one of the world's most profitably marketable leagues. The clubs will have more financial leeway than ever before. And it is to that backdrop that we would additionally like to thank our media partners for their confidence."

VIDEO: Edgar Prib's incredible miss

Striker Edgar Prib from SpVgg Greuther Fürth had an incredible miss infront of an empty goal last night against Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2.Bundesliga in Germany.

Here the link to the video: