I imagine all is not well among the traditionalists on German soccer right now.
I know this is true, but what exactly is the back story to the East German clubs. I have always assumed that the nature of the two economies at the time of reunification made the divide inevitable when the two FAs joined. East Germany was exactly what you would think it was in 1991, a depressed communist cesspool. West Germany was a leading economy in Europe even then. Was there more to it than that?JJxvi said:
I was glad mainly because I've kinda read about and followed the absolute crushing that the former East German teams have taken from the West German squads and how it seemed sad and ridiculous that an entire region was almost locked out of the German national leagues except for one (west german) team from the capital and a mere handful down in the second and third level..
I also think that is patently ridiculous the beating they take for having corporate backing and control, when you have another team flat out named and owned by Bayer (but I guess its old so...), and a couple other teams who are basically Team SAP (Hoffenheim) and Team Volkswagen (Wolfsburg)
I would have trouble squaring that with all the modern buildings around Berlin due to much of the city having been destroyed in World War II and the years after. The former East Germany still suffers from Communist rule and probably will for a long time, just as much of the former Soviet Bloc does and will. I'm not sure I'd blame much on it being old and historic.Quote:
1) is fighting the urge to make everything a monument. A city as old and historical as Berlin has had history occur all over, thus they want to memorialize everything