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Article: Broke Stuttgart figures out how to win with young team and marine drills
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 24, 2003
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Dateline: STUTTGART, Germany
Maybe the secret of VfB Stuttgart's success, which has surprised everyone
in Germany, is that practice sometimes resembles a Marine boot camp.
On a hot day recently, the players on the Bundesliga's youngest team
ran up a steep hill forward and backward. Afterward, they jumped obstacles
in a sandpit barefoot, then scrambled under the hurdles on their bellies.
"That's why we run everybody off their feet," said the club's Bulgarian