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Tor history of german football11/19/2023 I’ve been regaling friends who have little interest in football with anecdotes and history from this book for the past week, and I don’t intend to stop anytime soon. I’ve just finished reading Tor! The Story of German Football by Uli Hesse, and I can’t recommend it more highly. And as an Arsenal supporter, I’ve cheered on German players like Mesut Özil and Lukas Podolski.īut now that I’m here in the land of Bundesliga, I want to go deeper. It looks rather like a map of the Berlin Wall.)īefore coming here, I knew a few things about German football: the successes of its national team, the perennial dominance of Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga’s low ticket prices and teams’ ownership by their fans. (A few years ago, Berliner Morgenpost put out a map showing where Hertha members and Union members live. READ ALSO: Inside the world of the east Berlin club that rallies against commercializationįC Union Berlin greet fans in their stadium 'An der Alten Försterei' on August 18th. For the first time since 1977, this year will bring a Berlin derby to the Bundesliga, as league regulars Hertha Berlin take on upstarts FC Union Berlin in their first-ever run in the top division. Will Bayern Munich win an eighth consecutive title?Īlas, Berlin, where I’m living, doesn’t really feel like a football mecca - though this season will test that. Now's the perfect time to dig in, as the new Bundesliga (as the German league is known) season kicked off last weekend and will stretch on through May.
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