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Jürgen Klopp looks ahead to 'fairy tale' Champions League final - video

Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp describes being in the Champions League final as an extraordinary achievement despite the club winning the Bundesliga two years ago and the German double last year        

Bayern Munich's Jupp Heynckes reflects on career and discusses future – video

Jupp Heynckes talks to reporters about the achievement of taking Bayern Munich to the Champions League final        

German fairytale in the Champions League: not the same old spiel

Bundesliga success is widely seen as a reward for doing things the right way, but many are afraid it could be fleeting These are German football's proudest days in more than 15 years. An all-German Champions League final, Bayern Munich v Borussia Dortmund, was confirmed on Wednesday when Bayern overwhelmed Barcelona, most people's favourite other team, 3-0 at Camp Nou; a day after Dortmund did just enough to stave off Real Madrid, the most successful European Cup side in history, at the Bernabéu. This is a final not many would have predicted before the first-leg thrashings from the…

It's Spain v Germany – in football as in life | Francesc Tomas

The Champions League semi-final clashes mirror Europe's political tensions in uncomfortable fashion for Spain After many years of untenable economic growth, the current crisis is slowly but surely turning my home country of Spain into a place where average families struggle to get to the end of the month due to a deadly combination of shrinking wages and disproportionate inflation. The situation is far from ideal, to say the least. The Iberian country has been in recession for three consecutive years; unemployment has now reached a whopping 27% (including a desperate 50% within the 18- to…

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Bayern Munich look forward to Barcelona second leg – video

Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller and head coach Jupp Heynckes predict a tough game way at Barcelona        

Dortmund and Bayern have fans revelling in German football fairytale

The usually modest nation is glowing with pride in its Champions League brilliance and the praise from its European rivals "We've just vowed we're going to go to London, however we can get there, and even if we have to sleep in the car," said Lukas, a Borussia Dortmund fan celebrating his team's victory along with thousands of other supporters on Alter Markt, the central square of the west German city on Wednesday night. Among the songs they chanted was "Take off the Bavarians' Lederhosen", a reference to their rivals' traditional tight-fitting leather trousers, as they celebrated their…

'The last four have a fraternal similarity'

A mixture of national styles for Bayern v Barça, and Dortmund v Real has put them at the forefront of European football It is tempting to read a great deal into the swaggeringly four-square German-Spanish dominance of this season's Champions League semi-finals. Football loves a sweeping narrative and in Bayern v Barça and Dortmund v Real there is a sense of certain shared sporting values that go beyond mere geography, a butterfly print of matching elites from which the committed Rorschach theorist might draw all manner of overheated conclusions. But if the significance of such…