Bundesliga Goalkeeper Chart

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The work between the sticks of 19-year-old Germany youth international MARC ANDRE TER STEGEN, who began his career in the top flight by starting the final six games of last season for die Fohlen, is a major reason why BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH, despite scoring just nine goals in their first eight league matches this term, are currently occupying a surprising third place in the Bundesliga standings.
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GERMAN BUNDESLIGA
Goalkeeper Chart as of 10/13/2011
(source : espn soccer net)

93.75% — 15 sv —– 1 go — Manuel NEUER, Bayern Munich
87.10% — 27 sv —- 4 go — Marc Andre TER STEGEN, Bor. Moenchengladbach
85.36% — 35 sv —- 6 go — Sven ULREICH, Vfb Stuttgart
79.17% —- 19 sv —- 5 go — Tim WIESE, Werder Bremen
77.78% —– 7 sv —- 2 go — Fabian GIEFER, Bayer Leverkusen
77.41% — 24 sv —- 7 go — Tom STARKE, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
76.92% — 30 sv —- 9 go — Thomas KRAFT, SC Hertha Berlin
76.67% — 23 sv —- 7 go — Roman WEIDENFELLER, Borussia Dortmund
72.22% — 26 sv – 10 go — Ron Robert ZIELER, Hannover 96
71.42% —– 5 sv —- 2 go — Patrick RAKOVSKY, 1.FC Nuremberg
71.11% —- 32 sv – 13 go — Ralf FAEHRMANN, Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen
68.42% — 13 sv —- 6 go — Alexander STEPHAN, 1.FC Nuremberg
66.67% — 32 sv – 16 go — Simon JENTZSCH, FC Augsburg
66.67% — 24 sv – 12 go — Kevin TRAPP, 1.FC Kaiserslautern
66.67% —– 6 sv —- 3 go — Marvin HITZ, Vfl Wolfsburg
64.00% — 32 sv – 18 go — Heinz MUELLER — FSV 05 Mainz
60.71% —- 17 sv – 11 go — Diego BENAGLIO — Vfl Wolfsburg – (Switzerland)
58.49% —- 31 sv – 22 go — Oliver BAUMANN — SC Freiburg
57.44% — 27 sv – 20 go — Jaroslav DROBNY, SV Hamburg – (Czech Rep)
55.56% —— 5 sv —- 4 go — Miro VARVODIC, 1.FC Koeln – (Croatia)
54.83% —- 17 sv – 14 go — Michael RENSING, 1.FC Koeln
52.63% —- 10 sv —- 9 go — Bernd LENO, Bayer Leverkusen
44.44% —– 4 sv —- 5 go — Sebastian MIELITZ, Werder Bremen
33.33% ——- 1 sv —- 2 go — Raphael SCHAEFER, 1.FC Nuremberg

A goalkeeper certainly needs to be able to do more than just make saves in order to be competent, to speak nothing of world class. Taking high balls out of the air and knowing when to come off the line in order to smother dangerous balls are just two examples of important actions required of a goalkeeper which are not, in fact, reward with a ‘save’ on the statistics chart. Still, the old ‘save-percentage’ does provide some information with respect to any given goalkeeper’s current form.

Bundesliga Torjaeger

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(John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images
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BUNDESLIGA
2010-11 season
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18 goals — Mario GOMEZ — Bayern Munich
16 goals — Papiss Demba CISSE — SC Freiburg — Senegal
14 goals — Theofanis GEKAS — Eintracht Frankfurt — Greece
11 goals — Lucas BARRIOS — Borussia Dortmund — Paraguay
11 goals — Didier YA KONAN — Hannover 96 — Ivory Coast
11 goals — RAUL Gonzalez — Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen — Spain
11 goals — Srdjan LAKIC — 1.FC Kaiserslautern — Croatia
10 goals — Andre SCHUERRLE — FSV 05 Mainz
10 goals — Lukas PODOLSKI — 1.FC Koeln
10 goals — * Edin DZEKO — Vfl Wolsburg — Bosnia / Herzegovina

9 goals — Arturo VIDAL — Bayer Leverkusen — Chile
9 goals — Milivoje NOVAKOVIC — 1.FC Koeln — Slovenia
9 goals — * Hugo ALMEIDA — Werder Bremem — Portugal
8 goals — Shinji KAGAWA — Borussia Dortmund — Japan
8 goals — Thomas MUELLER — Bayern Munich
8 goals — Sami ALLAGUI — FSV 05 Mainz — Tunisia
8 goals — Martin HARNIK — Vfb Stuttgart — Austria
7 goals — Mladen PETRIC — SV Hamburg — Croatia
7 goals — Julian SCHIEBER — 1.FC Nuremburg
7 goals — Gylfi SIGURDSSON — TSG Hoffenheim — Iceland
7 goals — Klaus Jan HUNTELAAR — Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen — Holland
7 goals — GRAFITE — Vfl Wolfsburg — Brazil
7 goals — Pavel POGREBNYAK — Vfb Stuttgart — Russia

Bundesliga Torjaeger

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Despite the disastrous defeat over the weekend, Germany international striker MARIO GOMEZ, a purchase of 30.0 million Euros by the Bavarians from Vfb Stuttgart in the summer of 2009, scored a goal for Bayern Munich against 1.FC Koeln and assumed sole possession of top spot on the Bundesliga goal-scoring chart. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)
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BUNDESLIGA
2010-11 season
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16 goals — Mario GOMEZ — Bayern Munich
15 goals — Papiss Demba CISSE — SC Freiburg — Senegal
14 goals — Theofanis GEKAS — Eintracht Frankfurt — Greece
11 goals — Srdjan LAKIC — Kaiserslautern — Croatia
10 goals — Andre SCHUERRLE — FSV 05 Mainz
10 goals — Didier YA KONAN — Hannover 96 — Ivory Coast
10 goals — RAUL Gonzalez — Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen — Spain
10 goals — Edin DZEKO — * Vfl Wolfsburg — Bosnia / Herzegovina

9 goals — Lucas BARRIOS — Borussia Dortmund — Paraguay
9 goals — Arturo VIDAL — Bayer Leverkusen — Chile
9 goals — Hugo ALMEIDA — * Werder Bremen — Portugal
8 goals — Shinji KAGAWA — inj Borussia Dortmund — Japan
7 goals — Gylfi SIGURDSSON — TSG 1899 Hoffenheim — Iceland
7 goals — Klaus Jan HUNTELAAR — Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen — Holland
7 goals — GRAFITE — Vfl Wolfsburg — Brazil
7 goals — Pavel POGREBNYAK — Vfb Stuttgart — Russia
7 goals — Lukas PODOLSKI — 1.FC Koeln
7 goals — Milivoje NOVAKOVIC — 1.FC Koeln — Slovenia

Bundesliga Torjaeger

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Germany international striker MARIO GOMEZ, pictured here scoring at the expense of Brazilian goalkeeper JULIO SERGIO in the late November UEFA Champions League match against AS Roma at the Stadio di Olimpico in Rome, has scored 23 goals in all competitions for Bayern Munich this season. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
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BUNDESLIGA
2010-11 season
as of 1/25/2010

15 goals — Mario GOMEZ – Bayern Munich
15 goals — Papiss Demba CISSE – SC Freiburg – (Senegal)
14 goals — Theofanis GEKAS – Eintracht Frankfurt – (Greece)
11 goals — Srdjan LAKIS – 1.FC Kaiserslautern – (Croatia)
10 goals — Didier YA KONAN – Hannover 96 – (Ivory Coast)
10 goals — RAUL Gonzalez – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen – (Spain)
10 goals — Edin DZEKO – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Bosnia / Herzegovina)
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9 goals — Andre SCHUERRLE – FSV 05 Mainz
9 goals — Hugo ALMEIDA – Werder Bremen – (Portugal)
8 goals — Lucas BARRIOS – Borussia Dortmund – (Paraguay)
8 goals — Shinji KAGAWA – Borussia Dortmund – (Japan)
8 goals — Arturo VIDAL – Bayer Leverkusen – (Chile)
7 goals — Klaus-Jan HUNTELAAR – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen – (Holland)
7 goals — GRAFITE – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Brazil)
7 goals — Lukas PODOLSKI – 1.FC Koeln

To review, both Bosnia / Herzegovina international striker EDIN DZEKO and Portugal World Cup striker HUGO ALMEIDA have been sold to English club Manchester City and Turkish side JK Besiktas Istanbul, respectively.

Bundesliga Goal-Scoring Chart

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Greece World Cup striker THEOFANIS GEKAS of Eintracht Frankfurt, who leads the German top flight with 14 goals in the league this season, fails to score against outstretched 2.Bundesliga goalkeeper DAVID HOHS (22) of Alemania Aachen in the Deutscher Fussball Bund Pokal match three days before Christmas at the New Tivoli in North Rhine-Westphalia. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
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BUNDESLIGA
goal-scoring leaders
statistics as of 12/22/2010

14 goals — Theofanis GEKAS – Eintracht Frankfurt – (Greece)
13 goals — Papiss Demba CISSE – SC Freiburg – (Senegal)
12 goals — Mario GOMEZ – Bayern Munich
11 goals — Srdjan LAKIC – 1.FC Kaiserslautern – (Croatia)
10 goals — Edin DZEKO – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Bosnia/Herzegovina)
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9 goals — Andre SCHUERRLE – FSV 05 Mainz
9 goals — Didier YA KONAN – Hannover 96 – (Ivory Coast)
9 goals — RAUL Gonzalez – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen – (Spain)
9 goals — Hugo ALMEIDA – Werder Bremen – (Portugal)
8 goals — Lucas BARRIOS – Borussia Dortmund – (Paraguay)
8 goals — Shinji KAGAWA – Borussia Dortmund – (Japan)
8 goals — Arturo VIDAL – Bayer Leverkusen – (Chile)
7 goals — Klaus Jan HUNTELAAR – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen – (Holland)
7 goals — GRAFITE – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Brazil)
6 goals — Sidney SAM – Bayer Leverkusen
6 goals — Sami ALLAGUI – FSV 05 Mainz – (Tunisia)
6 goals — Gylfi SIGURDSSON – TSG Hoffenheim – (Iceland)
6 goals — Demba BA – TSG Hoffenheim – (Senegal)

German Bundesliga Goalkeeper Chart

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30-year-old ROMAN WEIDENFELLER, who only played six games in two seasons for 1.FC Kaiserslautern but has made 212 Bundesliga appearances since joining die Schwarzgelben on a free transfer in the summer of 2002, smothers the ball for Borussia Dortmund during the Herbstmeister’s 2-0 shutout of Bayern Munich at Signal Iduna Park in early October. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)
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GERMAN BUNDESLIGA
goalkeeper chart
statistics as of 12/22/2010

79.17 % – 38 sv – 10 go — Roman WEIDENFELLER – Borussia Dortmund
77.78 % – 14 sv —- 4 go — Stefan MIELITZ – Werder Bremen
77.33 % – 58 sv – 17 go — Oliver BAUMANN – SC Freiburg
75.81 % – 47 sv – 15 go — Christian WETKLO – FSV 05 Mainz
74.28 % – 26 sv —- 9 go — Tom STARKE – TSG Hoffenheim
73.85 % – 48 sv – 17 go — Oka NIKOLOV – Eintracht Frankfurt – (Macedonia)
72.60 % – 53 sv – 20 go — Diego BENAGLIO – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Switzerland)
72.22 % – 13 sv —- 5 go — Marvin HITZ – Vfl Wolfsburg
68.85 % – 42 sv – 19 go — Frank ROST – SV Hamburg
68.42 % – 52 sv – 24 go — Manuel NEUER – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen
68.11 % – 47 sv – 22 go — Thomas KESSLER – FC St. Pauli
67.47 % – 56 sv – 27 go — Florian FROMLOWITZ – Hannover 96
67.07 % – 55 sv – 27 go — Tobias SIPPEL – 1.FC Kaiserslautern
66.67 % —- 8 sv —- 4 go — Ralf FAEHRMANN – Eintracht Frankfurt
66.67 % —- 4 sv —- 2 go — Heinz MUELLER – FSV 05 Mainz
66.01 % – 68 sv – 35 go — Sven ULREICH – Vfb Stuttgart
65.52 % – 38 sv – 20 go — Hans Joerg BUTT – Bayern Munich
65.17 % – 58 sv – 31 go — Tim WIESE – Werder Bremen
63.89 % – 23 sv – 13 go — Daniel HAAS – TSG Hoffenheim
63.63 % – 14 sv —- 8 go — Simon POUPLIN – SC Freiburg
63.49 % – 40 sv – 23 go — Rene ADLER – Bayer Leverkusen
62.96 % – 34 sv – 20 go — Faryd MONDRAGON – 1.FC Koeln – (Colombia)
61.90 % – 13 sv —- 8 go — Mathias HAIN – FC St. Pauli
61.53 % – 32 sv – 20 go — Christofer HEIMEROTH – Bor.Moenchengladbach
60.87 % – 42 sv – 27 go — Raphael SCHAEFER – 1.FC Nuremberg
53.45 % – 31 sv – 27 go — Logan BAILLY – Bor.Moenchengladbach – (Belgium)
50.00 % —- 9 sv —- 9 go — Jaroslav DROBNY – SV Hamburg – (Czech Rep)
50.00 % —- 2 sv —- 2 go — Fabian GIEFER – Bayer Leverkusen
50.00 % —- 2 sv —- 2 go — Martin PIECKENHAGEN – FSV 05 Mainz
43.37 % – 10 sv – 13 go — Miro VARVODIC – 1.FC Koeln – (Croatia)
00.00 % —- 0 sv —- 1 go — Alexander STEPHAN — 1.FC Nuremberg

The Right Thing To Do

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Visiting 1.FC Nuremberg goalkeeper RAPHAEL SCHAEFER attends to some requisite paperwork just prior to the 181st edition of the Bayrisches Derby, the duel between the two Bavarian clubs founded at the turn of the 20th century – Bayern Munich and 1.FC Nuremberg – at the Allianz Arena in the city founded by Benedictine monks which dates back to the 12th century. (Matthias Schrader/AP)
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As the regular blog readership has seen here before from the Hamburgderby earlier this season, decorating the rival goalkeeper’s net area before the big derby match is certainly a wonderful and entertaining tradition associated with the history and culture of German football.

The readership is also well aware, the blog has been looking back at East German football in addition to celebrating the reunification of Germany recently, an important event in world history to be certain.

Of course, there is a reason why two separate entities — the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany) and the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany) — existed in the first place for such a long time to literally divide the German people.

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(Matthias Schrader/AP)
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The 9th of November is, of course, the date that the Berlin Wall symbolically fell when East German border guards bowed to the demands of the great numbers that had appeared at the gates that night in 1989.

Unfortunately, exactly fifty-one years earlier prior to that long-awaited evening, another event occured in Germany — a rather ugly and notorious one — which, any amateur historian can easily conclude, actually contributed to the building of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union starting in August of 1961.

November 9, 1938 — KRISTALLNACHT.

If one is not aware of what Kristallnacht would be, perhaps one would do well to find out. After all, those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it. A fine starting point for reference would be :

http://molovinskyonallentown.blogspot.com

Decorating the visiting rival goalkeeper’s net and surrounding area before the big derby match is absolutely the right thing to do without question — so is acknowledging important as well as impactful events of world history, not to mention arriving at the proper conclusions resulting from such.

Greek Renaissance Continues On Bundesliga Goal Chart

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Greece international striker THEOFANIS GEKAS tallied 11 goals in 29 Bundesliga games his last full season for Bayer Leverkusen during the 2007-08 season; to start the 2010-11 campaign, the 30-year-old off-season purchase costing one million Euros has collected 11 goals in as many matches for Eintracht Frankfurt. (Bayrische Henne/worldfootball.net)
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BUNDESLIGA
Goal-scoring chart
stats as of 11/10/2010

11 goals — Theofanis GEKAS – Eintracht Frankfurt – (Greece)

9 goals — Papiss Demba CISSE – SC Freiburg – (Senegal)
7 goals — Edin DZEKO – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Bosnia/Herzegovina)
6 goals — Lucas BARRIOS – Borussia Dortmund – (Paraguay)
6 goals — Demba BA – TSG Hoffenheim – (Senegal)
6 goals — Hugo ALMEIDA – Werder Bremen – (Portugal)
6 goals — GRAFITE – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Brazil)
6 goals — Srdjan LAKIC – 1.FC Kaiserslautern – (Croatia)
6 goals — Klaus Jan HUNTELAAR – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen – (Holland)
5 goals — Shinji KAGAWA – Borussia Dortmund – (Japan)
5 goals — Mario GOMEZ – Bayern Munich
5 goals — Didier YA KONAN – Hannover 96 – (Ivory Coast)
5 goals — Pavel POGREBNYAK – Vfb Stuttgart – (Russia)

Two more goals in the Bundesliga last Saturday for Eintracht Frankfurt opposite Vfl Wolfsburg saw Greece international striker THEOFANIS GEKAS become the first player to reach double-digits for goal-scoring this season in the German top flight.

Gekas, who has scored eleven of his team’s twenty Bundesliga goals to start the new campaign, is a major reason why Eintracht Frankfurt currently occupy a surprising fourth place in the standings.

German Bundesliga Goalkeeper Chart

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36-year-old Macedonia international goalkeeper OKA NIKOLOV has appeared in 210 Bundesliga games and another 119 matches in the 2.Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany, the only professional club the West German-born shot-stopper has ever played for. (Getty photo)
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German Bundesliga
goalkeeping chart
stats as of 11/1/2010

79.41 % – 27 sv —- 7 go — Oka NIKOLOV – Eintracht Frankfurt
77.78 % – 14 sv —- 4 go — Stefan MIELITZ – Werder Bremen
77.42 % – 24 sv —- 7 go — Roman WEIDENFELLER – Borussia Dortmund
77.27 % – 34 sv – 10 go — Christian WETKLO – FSV 05 Mainz
75.00 % —- 6 sv —- 2 go — Mathias HAIN – FC St. Pauli
74.29 % – 26 sv —- 9 go — Tom STARKE – TSG Hoffenheim
72.22 % – 13 sv —- 5 go — Marvin HITZ – Vfl Wolfsburg
70.27 % – 26 sv – 11 go — Frank ROST – SV Hamburg
69.44 % – 25 sv – 11 go — Diego BENAGLIO – Vfl Wolfsburg – (Switzerland)
67.31 % – 35 sv – 17 go — Manuel NEUER – Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen
65.52 % – 19 sv – 10 go — Hans-Joerg BUTT – Bayern Munich
65.52 % – 19 sv – 10 go — Oliver BAUMANN – SC Freiburg
65.45 % – 36 sv – 19 go — Sven ULREICH – Vfb Stuttgart
65.22 % – 30 sv – 16 go — Florian FROMLOWITZ – Hannover 96
64.86 % – 24 sv – 13 go — Thomas KESSLER – FC St. Pauli
64.58 % – 31 sv – 17 go — Tim WIESE – Werder Bremen
64.29 % – 27 sv – 15 go — Rene ADLER – Bayer Leverkusen
63.64 % – 14 sv —- 8 go — Simon POUPLIN – SC Freiburg
63.64 % —- 7 sv —- 4 go — Daniel HAAS – TSG Hoffenheim
62.86 % – 22 sv – 13 go — Raphael SCHAEFER – 1.FC Nuremberg
62.86 % – 22 sv – 13 go — Faryd MONDRAGON – 1.FC Koeln – (Colombia)
62.50 % – 30 sv – 18 go — Tobias SIPPEL – 1.FC Kaiserslautern
53.85 % —- 7 sv —- 6 go — Miro VARVODIC — 1.FC Koeln
53.45 % – 31 sv – 27 go — Logan BAILLY – Bor.Moenchengladbach – (Belgium)
25.00 % —- 1 sv —- 3 go — Ralf FAEHRMANN — Eintracht Frankfurt
00.00 % — 0 sv —- 3 go — Jaroslav DROBNY – SV Hamburg – (Czech Rep)

NOTE — statistics from soccernet.espn.go.com