To quote Duke Ellington, things ain’t what they used to be over in Germany’s top soccer league. For starters, not a single player from last season’s Bundesliga was on the podium at the Ballon d’Ata awards. Okay, maybe that doesn’t seem so important, but also: no Champions League finalists after 2012-13 no Europa League finalists after 2008-09 dropped from second to fourth place in UEFA rankings since 2017-18 sliding Elo ratings may rank the league fourth by the end of 2019-20 mostly Bundesliga-based squad lost twice in 2018 World Cup group stage executives and players of flagship club seem out of touch with social issues These are…
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