2 weeks Tomorrow I’ll be BACK in 🇩🇪 Leverkusen v Mainz 💥 Bochum v St. Pauli 💥 E. Frankfurt v Dortmund 💥 Bochum v RB Leipzig 💥 & LOTS OF STADIUM TOURS 🏟️🤩
Pauli vs bochum....im conflicted as you know....but a draw will do the clubs little good ...forgive me Ry....Cmon Pauli !!!!!!....but ofc against Leizig i shall be supporting Bochum
Another excellent video. Love your enthusiasm for german football culture and the way you put things into perspective gently. Very british. Btw. SC Tasmania 1900 went bust in 1973. The current SV Tasmania started from scratch in the same year at level 7. They regard SC Tasmania 1900 as their forerunner - inofficially.
Hi Ry! When i was younger a club called "Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin" played in 1. Bundesliga ( 1986-87 season) . It was a very nice time and a very sympathetic club :) Unfortunately they were relegated as the last-place team. And later they hat to file for bankruptcy.
There was nothing sympathetic about this club, the promotion was only made possible due to an investor, Kropatschek was his name, a real shady character...
@@matthiashaverland1730 I was a kid and didnt know anything about this guy. I just found the players likeable when they where still in the second division and later in the 1. Bundesliga.
Union are so interesting - I have been lucky enough to work on them for a couple of different projects, including interviewing one of their players for my vlog! Their rise is nothing short of extraordinary! Great video as always
Hanau 93 and VfL Germania Frankfurt 94, the two oldest football clubs in Hesse, have both disappeared into the lower leagues of amateur football. But they still exist. That would be worth a trip.
The fun part about Germania 94 is, in my opinion at least, their tendency to move venues over time… they originally started north of the river, then moved around there, then south to Sandhöfer Wiesen („Sandhof Meadows“, close to the river Main, to the west of Sachsenhausen and at the district border to Niederrad where the German Championship final was played in 1920 - unfortunately, the original grounds badly deteriorated after/during WW2, and in the mid-1970s you couldn‘t really tell that this used to be a football ground with a 30k capacity…), then…uhm… wandered around? in the south, and are currently at Mainwasen („Main Meadows“) close to the river again, but on the opposite, eastern side of the Sachsenhausen district, between Oberrad and the river.
15:40 you made my day 🤣This video is highly recommended! Two thumbs up! 18:04 Ditmar Jakobs (Captain in front of the pic) 493 BL-Apps, HSV-Idol, obviously former Tennis Borussia Centre back..."Jakobs' career ended prematurely on 20 September 1989 in a game between Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen. When an attacker lobbed the Hamburger SV goalie, Jakobs lunged feet-first into his goal and scraped the ball off the line. However, he fell into the hooks fixing the goal to the ground..." [Wikipedia] One of the most tragic moments in BL-History...
In danish, a "Spandauer" is a kind of pastry. 😀 Joking aside, it's another highly interesting vlog. You can explore Berlin for days, even weeks, and never get bored. It deserves more football clubs on a higher level. Happy New Year to you. 🎉🎊🥂
Actually the Mommsenstadion was not a first bundesliga stadium. During the two years in 1st Bundesliga, TeBe went to play in Olympiastadion. But most of the games in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1999 were played in Mommsenstadion.
This is the first video of yours I've seen and it was excellent! I just subscribed so will look thru some more. I'm an English Gladbach fan living in Cyprus who loves watching the Bundesliga (sadly only on TV these days) and learning about the history.
@@RysFootyParadise Same here really. When my wife and I used to travel over to Gladbach to watch a game we always felt welcome and part of the club. It was great meeting and speaking with other fans, even with supporters of other clubs. As well as Die Fohlen we watched Fortuna Düsseldorf, obviously Borussia Park is better but the atmosphere at Fortuna was great too 😀
That sign kolonie Germania is a sign for a holiday home colony .....we have them here in sweden too and they are called the same...great video m8 and informative...Happy new year to you and all your viewers🙂
Used to live close to the Germania pitch (my balcony is on screen), nostalgia kicking in. You actually went to take a peek in the backyard of my block!
Nice one, if you ever make it down to Switzerland, maybe as an addition to a Bochum away game in Freiburg or so, let me know if you need some Infos. Couple of very underrated fan scenes there!
Excellent video on all of the Berlin teams. It's amazing that they don't really have a team that can be classed "up there" like a Bayern, but maybe thats a hangover from the East/West split and they are still fighting to catch up?
It’s seems to have slowed the momentum of the Berlin clubs - the reorganisation of the clubs/leagues over the years. I think Union are making great progress with the new stadium expansion coming soon
@@RysFootyParadise Unions stadium plans look promising, but they've produced a few of these stadium renders already. It feels like we're heading into "I'll believe it when it happens" territory now.
Nice Vid man! Next time you should take a look to the Stadium from Lichtenberg 47. They have second biggest pure football stadium in Berlin (looks like a bit the old version from "Die Alte Försterei") They a currently first place in the 5. Division. Also check out BFC Dynamo (really nice ground and super fan base), than we also have Clubs linke Viktoria Berlin, BFC Preußen or Berliner AK (also a nice grounds, but they dont have fans)
@@RysFootyParadise BAK has about a dozen recognisable fans, including a few english lads. Come on a match day, and hang out at the merch stand (it's run by the fans, and they sell their beer for a fraction of the price at the official catering).
Great video again!! I am from Berlin and i didn‘t know some of these things, it was very interesting 👍🏼 I also was at the Union-Bochum match right next to the away area, wish i would‘ve seen you to give you probs Keep it going i love your videos ⚽️
I saw Vorwärts Berlin play twice in Dublin in the European Cup as it was at the time 1963 and 1965.Their colours were Red and Yellow.They were an East German Army team.Their home base was in East Berlin but I think they were at one time based in Frankfurt/Oder.
Sadly, the Mommsenstadion never saw a (men's) first Bundesliga match. Hertha and Union are the only Berlin clubs that got to play in their own stadiums (in Hertha's case at least initially). Tasmania, TeBe and Blau-Weiß all had to play in the Olympiastadium for security reasons.
@@RysFootyParadise Gi's a shout if you need a guide for BFC. I might join you if time permits (and the Mighty Whites are not on the box at the same time). 😉
If you like to visit a Game of BFC Dynamo at Sportforum Berlin - better visit a late game on Friday evening - then you'll see the full "charm" of that Stadium. As a Fan "Ultra" -you need more Informations about the Club , let me know. Nice Vid. Btw. it's ashamed with that History of Clubs Berlin have, the politics doing nothing for the Clubs..... As Hertha wants a new "real-football" Stadium, BFC also fighting to get support for making the Sportforum Berlin-Stadium ready for the 3rd. Division.
@@RysFootyParadise depends on where you do it :D Like I said, I'd like to help you since I'm member of "Fraktion-H 2006" - I'm sure you'll have no problem filming ;)
It might be interesting to know, that East German clubs did follow a "naming rule". Under socialism, there were no professional sports, so they were company sports communities (BSG = "Betriebssportgemeinschaft". Clubs with “Dynamo” belonged to the internal security organs. “Lokomotive” for railroad companies, ‘Traktor’ for forestry, ‘Vorwärts’ (Forward) for military clubs, etc. This led to name creations such as: BSG Rotation Babelsberg, HSG Technische Hochschule Dresden (HSG Sciences University of Technologies Dresden) or BSG Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe (BSG Activist Black Pump). A German list can be found online in a Kicker article. Would be interesting for you Ry, also the other sites of that article about foreign called clubs and latin clubnames etc. E.g. we have 53 clubs with greek names.
@@RysFootyParadise I thought so. The list is called "Welche Vereinsnamen dominieren Ihr Bundesland?" and has 7 parts with different topics. Can´t post the url here sadly.
0:27 Just one Bundesliga team from London? Borussia Hammersmith? :D Just kidding, not trying to be a fusspot or even a smart-arse. Another brilliant video on your channel! Somehow I've always liked that little 'grandstand' of Tennis Borussia's (TeBe's) Mommsenstadion. They should have built a classic football stadium with these kind of stands on all four sides, haha! P.S. When I started to get really amazed by football in the 90s as a teenager, there was no team from Berlin in the Bundesliga at all for many years. Hertha BSC was stuck in the second tier even more than today with awful attendances mostly below 10,000 and other clubs from Berlin such as Union, BFC Dynamo (renamed into 'FC Berlin' at that time) and TeBe were in the Regionalliga Nordost (the third tier of German football back then) at best.
Haha I didn’t notice how that came across until you said 😅 you know what I mean though haha seeing as there are Turkish and Polish clubs in Berlin, I’ll have to set up a German club here…
The only fans who try to make a claim of Union not being located in Berlin as they are based in Köpenick are 'certain' (not all) Hertha fans with chips on their shoulders at being knocked off their 'big city club' perch. Anyone claiming Köpenick isn't part of Berlin doesn't know their geography of the city. No further from the central districts that Charlottburg and Hohenschönhausen.
As someone from Berlin, I must admit that Berlin soccer is in a very poor state. 1 team in the Bundesliga and 1 team in the Zweite Bundesliga is kinda the best case scenario. Hertha is highly indebted and doesn't have an own stadium, so I doubt they will make the jump back to the Bundesliga. The German partition is the main reason for the poor state. East Berlin clubs didn't have the infrastructure or financial opportunities to reach the Bundesliga, and BFC Dynamo has the Stasi past. And Hertha BSC was the only competitive club in West Berlin with long away journeys because of its geographic isolation. However, I also want to blame the Senate of Berlin. The road network in East Berlin is so bad that soccer fans can't use cars to reach the stadiums. And the Senate of Berlin didn't provide any financial help to construct pure soccer stadiums. Hertha BSC was basically forced to use the Olympia Stadium because without Hertha BSC the stadium would have barely any usage. The stadium of SV Lichtenberg 47 is actually the second biggest pure soccer stadium in Berlin with its capacity of 10,000 spectators - I assume this antiquated "stadium" wouldn't even get a permit for 3rd tier football. The Sportforum Berlin / Hohenschönhausen is meant for German competitive sport. For example, some famous swimmers and speed skaters trained there and for a long time Germany's best ice hockey club played there. However, its soccer "stadium" is in a very poor state, and the Senate of Berlin does nothing. I have never spectated football in real life but maybe in 2025 I will attend a match of SV Lichtenberg 47 or BFC Dynamo. I live close to where those 2 clubs. Maybe, SV Lichtenberg 47 will make the jump back to 4th tier (Regionalliga Nordost) this season.
I looked around on Google Maps and I think the "Tempelhofer Feld" would be the ideal spot for a soccer stadium. Part of it lies next to the freeway A100 and the S-Bahn. Actually, before the construction of the airport there was a huge soccer stadium on that spot. The airport was closed 15 years ago and nothing really happened since then.
I want to go Germany in 2025, where would you recommend for history ww2 and football? Thinking of Berlin. But can’t decide which team to follow😂 Great Vid mate
So for football it is the best to get to Western Germany like the "Ruhrpott" with Schalke, Dortmund, Bochum, but in western Germany there is also the Rhine-Region with Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leverkusen, M'Gladbach. For Ww2 I'd definately recommend to.. Of course... Berlin, but also Brandenburg or in general eastern Germany
@The2Losties thanks mate, i opened a secret shirt box the other day and got 1.FC Magdeburg in the box and wondering how they are and are they worth following? I see some clubs are hard to get tickets and some not, i just want to start supporting a club in Germany!
@@obaboiio3449 Well, as someone from western Germany I do not really like Magdeburg, but I can imagine that they have a great football culture. I think we also know some background story's from 20th December there, I think they need every follower. If you like to cheer for clubs with a special story, try clubs like Heidenheim (with one coach, Frank Schmidt, they went from 5th division all the way up to Conference League) or SV Elversberg, a Club from a city which has 11k residents but they are in 2nd division and maybe they'll get even promoted to Bundesliga. Please make a good decision, it wouldn't be nice to support Hoffenheim,Leipzig or Wolfsburg as an English fan (?), the football cuture in Germany is way better than that. Have a nice evening + I can tell you really much about almost every club in 1st and 2nd bundesliga, just ask if questions! (:
I'm not sure what you mean by history ww2. Do you mean the remains of the Nazi era? In that case, next to Berlin, Nuremberg would probably worth seeing. You could visit the documentation centre on the soil of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds including the (unfinished) Congress Hall which was planned for 50,000 seats. Nuremberg also has a picturesque historic city just below the castle on the top. But, most importantly, 1. FC Nürnberg (commonly just called 'der Club') is probably one of the most passionate supported clubs in the 2. Bundesliga and was, once upon a time, a real powerhouse in West German football, winning nine championships including Bundesliga titles in the 60s. I guess the historic derby vs. Fürth has to be a very special experience. But in case you want to see as many matches as possible and spend much more time than just a few days, more densely populated areas such as the mentioned Rhein-Ruhr area (where I live) or Berlin would be the ones I'd prefer. In Berlin, you have the opportunity to see some clubs and stadiums of the DDR-Oberliga of former East Germany as well.
@@RysFootyParadise Funny enough because of nationalists/seps in last few yrs, more fellow Brits/citizens north of Gretna have started supporting south of Gretna = football.
the thing is that Berlin has much more sports. I mean a long time basketball and this season again great hockey with the Eisbären, Volleyball and all that stuff.
2 weeks Tomorrow I’ll be BACK in 🇩🇪 Leverkusen v Mainz 💥 Bochum v St. Pauli 💥 E. Frankfurt v Dortmund 💥 Bochum v RB Leipzig 💥 & LOTS OF STADIUM TOURS 🏟️🤩
Pauli vs bochum....im conflicted as you know....but a draw will do the clubs little good ...forgive me Ry....Cmon Pauli !!!!!!....but ofc against Leizig i shall be supporting Bochum
Another excellent video. Love your enthusiasm for german football culture and the way you put things into perspective gently. Very british. Btw. SC Tasmania 1900 went bust in 1973. The current SV Tasmania started from scratch in the same year at level 7. They regard SC Tasmania 1900 as their forerunner - inofficially.
Glad you enjoyed it! True, it was only afterwards I noticed the Tasmania name change 😅
11:47 hilarious because it literally says "UPS we are in"
😅 I work for Evri part time and im guessing UPS “chuck and run” too 😬
Hi Ry! When i was younger a club called "Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin" played in 1. Bundesliga ( 1986-87 season) . It was a very nice time and a very sympathetic club :) Unfortunately they were relegated as the last-place team. And later they hat to file for bankruptcy.
I should have given them a mention! Maybe a part 2 after another visit to Berlin 😊👍🏾
@@RysFootyParadise It s all ok! But that would be cool 😎 They even had their own song back then 🤭
There was nothing sympathetic about this club, the promotion was only made possible due to an investor, Kropatschek was his name, a real shady character...
@@matthiashaverland1730 I was a kid and didnt know anything about this guy. I just found the players likeable when they where still in the second division and later in the 1. Bundesliga.
Union are so interesting - I have been lucky enough to work on them for a couple of different projects, including interviewing one of their players for my vlog! Their rise is nothing short of extraordinary! Great video as always
That’s class mate! Thanks as always for watching!
TENNIS BORUSSIA MENTIONED 💜🤍💜
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Thanks for the video, looking forward to the videos when you return back to Germany in a fortnight. Have a happy New Year.
Happy new year! 🥳 thanks for following along mate!
Hanau 93 and VfL Germania Frankfurt 94, the two oldest football clubs in Hesse, have both disappeared into the lower leagues of amateur football. But they still exist. That would be worth a trip.
Good to know! Cheers 🍻
The fun part about Germania 94 is, in my opinion at least, their tendency to move venues over time… they originally started north of the river, then moved around there, then south to Sandhöfer Wiesen („Sandhof Meadows“, close to the river Main, to the west of Sachsenhausen and at the district border to Niederrad where the German Championship final was played in 1920 - unfortunately, the original grounds badly deteriorated after/during WW2, and in the mid-1970s you couldn‘t really tell that this used to be a football ground with a 30k capacity…), then…uhm… wandered around? in the south, and are currently at Mainwasen („Main Meadows“) close to the river again, but on the opposite, eastern side of the Sachsenhausen district, between Oberrad and the river.
Great blog love all the information you are telling us.
4:42 I mean they had at least a little sign with "The oldest German soccer club greets its guests." at the entrance where you started your tour.
True - what was I expecting - a big sign with it in English? 🤣
15:40 you made my day 🤣This video is highly recommended! Two thumbs up! 18:04 Ditmar Jakobs (Captain in front of the pic) 493 BL-Apps, HSV-Idol, obviously former Tennis Borussia Centre back..."Jakobs' career ended prematurely on 20 September 1989 in a game between Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen. When an attacker lobbed the Hamburger SV goalie, Jakobs lunged feet-first into his goal and scraped the ball off the line. However, he fell into the hooks fixing the goal to the ground..." [Wikipedia] One of the most tragic moments in BL-History...
My, I had totally forgotten about Ditmar; I should not, as he was the second-most well-known guy to play for MSV in my lifetime (after Ennaz Dietz).
Dir einen guten Rutsch und viel Erfolg im nächsten Jahr
Another amazing video mate. Love the history and looking around the city.
Thanks mate! An usual football history for most Berlin clubs
In danish, a "Spandauer" is a kind of pastry. 😀 Joking aside, it's another highly interesting vlog. You can explore Berlin for days, even weeks, and never get bored. It deserves more football clubs on a higher level. Happy New Year to you. 🎉🎊🥂
Happy new year mate! 🥳 love a Danish pastry 🥮
Actually the Mommsenstadion was not a first bundesliga stadium. During the two years in 1st Bundesliga, TeBe went to play in Olympiastadion. But most of the games in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1999 were played in Mommsenstadion.
Ahhh makes sense 😬
This is the first video of yours I've seen and it was excellent! I just subscribed so will look thru some more. I'm an English Gladbach fan living in Cyprus who loves watching the Bundesliga (sadly only on TV these days) and learning about the history.
It’s an underrated place for Football 🤩🇩🇪 I’m more into the fan culture than expensive players which is why I prefer German over English football
@@RysFootyParadise Same here really. When my wife and I used to travel over to Gladbach to watch a game we always felt welcome and part of the club. It was great meeting and speaking with other fans, even with supporters of other clubs. As well as Die Fohlen we watched Fortuna Düsseldorf, obviously Borussia Park is better but the atmosphere at Fortuna was great too 😀
Great Video. Greetings from Bochum. Nur der VFL
That sign kolonie Germania is a sign for a holiday home colony .....we have them here in sweden too and they are called the same...great video m8 and informative...Happy new year to you and all your viewers🙂
Happy New Year mate! 🥳 thanks for the support as always
Used to live close to the Germania pitch (my balcony is on screen), nostalgia kicking in. You actually went to take a peek in the backyard of my block!
Nice one, if you ever make it down to Switzerland, maybe as an addition to a Bochum away game in Freiburg or so, let me know if you need some Infos. Couple of very underrated fan scenes there!
Excellent video on all of the Berlin teams. It's amazing that they don't really have a team that can be classed "up there" like a Bayern, but maybe thats a hangover from the East/West split and they are still fighting to catch up?
It’s seems to have slowed the momentum of the Berlin clubs - the reorganisation of the clubs/leagues over the years. I think Union are making great progress with the new stadium expansion coming soon
@@RysFootyParadise Unions stadium plans look promising, but they've produced a few of these stadium renders already. It feels like we're heading into "I'll believe it when it happens" territory now.
As always big thumbs up 👍
Happy new year mate 🥳
Nice Vid man! Next time you should take a look to the Stadium from Lichtenberg 47. They have second biggest pure football stadium in Berlin (looks like a bit the old version from "Die Alte Försterei") They a currently first place in the 5. Division. Also check out BFC Dynamo (really nice ground and super fan base), than we also have Clubs linke Viktoria Berlin, BFC Preußen or Berliner AK (also a nice grounds, but they dont have fans)
I had plans to visit them all, just ran out of time as I went to Cottbus & Leipzig but will definitely return! 🤩👍🏾
@@RysFootyParadise BAK has about a dozen recognisable fans, including a few english lads.
Come on a match day, and hang out at the merch stand (it's run by the fans, and they sell their beer for a fraction of the price at the official catering).
Great video again!! I am from Berlin and i didn‘t know some of these things, it was very interesting 👍🏼
I also was at the Union-Bochum match right next to the away area, wish i would‘ve seen you to give you probs
Keep it going i love your videos ⚽️
Cheers mate! An unusual game for sure 😅
„Casino“ can actually mean „(company) restaurant“ in German… and I‘m pretty sure that‘s the case for the one you found…
Makes more sense than an actual casino 🎰 🤣
And an officer´s mess.
I saw Vorwärts Berlin play twice in Dublin in the European Cup as it was at the time 1963 and 1965.Their colours were Red and Yellow.They were an East German Army team.Their home base was in East Berlin but I think they were at one time based in Frankfurt/Oder.
Sadly, the Mommsenstadion never saw a (men's) first Bundesliga match.
Hertha and Union are the only Berlin clubs that got to play in their own stadiums (in Hertha's case at least initially).
Tasmania, TeBe and Blau-Weiß all had to play in the Olympiastadium for security reasons.
In Berlin we say: „In Berlin Only Hertha BSC“ (since 1892)
Love your videos, mate. Glück auf & Mia san mia! 💙🤍❤
Ohhh Glücckkk auuuffff 🥳💙
in the Mommsenstadion the austrian nationalteam trained during the european championship. Oh and the Casino is not a real Casino it is a restaurant
Thanks for the info! 😊👍🏾
So did you make it to Sportforum Hohenschönhausen/BFC Dynamo this time round?
Ran out of time in this trip and chose to see Cottbus v Hansa instead of Dynamo v Babelsberg BUT I will definitely be back 😊
@@RysFootyParadise Gi's a shout if you need a guide for BFC. I might join you if time permits (and the Mighty Whites are not on the box at the same time). 😉
I bought the Union shirt because I like Star Trek.
Shout-out to millwall from Berlin
Nobody likes them but they DONT CARE 😁
If you like to visit a Game of BFC Dynamo at Sportforum Berlin - better visit a late game on Friday evening - then you'll see the full "charm" of that Stadium. As a Fan "Ultra" -you need more Informations about the Club , let me know.
Nice Vid.
Btw. it's ashamed with that History of Clubs Berlin have, the politics doing nothing for the Clubs..... As Hertha wants a new "real-football" Stadium, BFC also fighting to get support for making the Sportforum Berlin-Stadium ready for the 3rd. Division.
I’ll also go a bit more “low key” with the vlogging as I’ve heard Dynamo Berlin fans don’t like it 😅👍🏾
@@RysFootyParadise depends on where you do it :D Like I said, I'd like to help you since I'm member of "Fraktion-H 2006" - I'm sure you'll have no problem filming ;)
Lets hope, that Bockum wont break Tasmanias record😅😢😮
😬💙 we’ll be fine!
HA HO HE ✊️💪💙🤍
It might be interesting to know, that East German clubs did follow a "naming rule". Under socialism, there were no professional sports, so they were company sports communities (BSG = "Betriebssportgemeinschaft". Clubs with “Dynamo” belonged to the internal security organs. “Lokomotive” for railroad companies, ‘Traktor’ for forestry, ‘Vorwärts’ (Forward) for military clubs, etc.
This led to name creations such as: BSG Rotation Babelsberg, HSG Technische Hochschule Dresden (HSG Sciences University of Technologies Dresden) or BSG Aktivist Schwarze Pumpe (BSG Activist Black Pump).
A German list can be found online in a Kicker article.
Would be interesting for you Ry, also the other sites of that article about foreign called clubs and latin clubnames etc. E.g. we have 53 clubs with greek names.
That’s interesting to know! I’m fascinated by the DDR Oberliga
@@RysFootyParadise I thought so. The list is called "Welche Vereinsnamen dominieren Ihr Bundesland?" and has 7 parts with different topics. Can´t post the url here sadly.
5:42 quite insane considering where the city of Rostock is located 😂
Way up North isn’t it 😅
Eisern!
Victoria Berlin is one of the oldest Football Clubs in Berlin!
In Berlin, an der Spree, da gibts nur Hertha BSC! Olee olee....
Paris isn't into football, either. I don't think the English text is for the 'dopey British',more to do with a billion global speakers of English.
Just me trying to be funny…
German football is underrated ⚽️
0:27 Just one Bundesliga team from London? Borussia Hammersmith? :D Just kidding, not trying to be a fusspot or even a smart-arse. Another brilliant video on your channel! Somehow I've always liked that little 'grandstand' of Tennis Borussia's (TeBe's) Mommsenstadion. They should have built a classic football stadium with these kind of stands on all four sides, haha!
P.S. When I started to get really amazed by football in the 90s as a teenager, there was no team from Berlin in the Bundesliga at all for many years. Hertha BSC was stuck in the second tier even more than today with awful attendances mostly below 10,000 and other clubs from Berlin such as Union, BFC Dynamo (renamed into 'FC Berlin' at that time) and TeBe were in the Regionalliga Nordost (the third tier of German football back then) at best.
Haha I didn’t notice how that came across until you said 😅 you know what I mean though haha seeing as there are Turkish and Polish clubs in Berlin, I’ll have to set up a German club here…
The only fans who try to make a claim of Union not being located in Berlin as they are based in Köpenick are 'certain' (not all) Hertha fans with chips on their shoulders at being knocked off their 'big city club' perch. Anyone claiming Köpenick isn't part of Berlin doesn't know their geography of the city. No further from the central districts that Charlottburg and Hohenschönhausen.
Yeah I had the Hertha fans in mind when I said that 😅
As someone from Berlin, I must admit that Berlin soccer is in a very poor state. 1 team in the Bundesliga and 1 team in the Zweite Bundesliga is kinda the best case scenario. Hertha is highly indebted and doesn't have an own stadium, so I doubt they will make the jump back to the Bundesliga.
The German partition is the main reason for the poor state. East Berlin clubs didn't have the infrastructure or financial opportunities to reach the Bundesliga, and BFC Dynamo has the Stasi past. And Hertha BSC was the only competitive club in West Berlin with long away journeys because of its geographic isolation.
However, I also want to blame the Senate of Berlin. The road network in East Berlin is so bad that soccer fans can't use cars to reach the stadiums. And the Senate of Berlin didn't provide any financial help to construct pure soccer stadiums. Hertha BSC was basically forced to use the Olympia Stadium because without Hertha BSC the stadium would have barely any usage. The stadium of SV Lichtenberg 47 is actually the second biggest pure soccer stadium in Berlin with its capacity of 10,000 spectators - I assume this antiquated "stadium" wouldn't even get a permit for 3rd tier football. The Sportforum Berlin / Hohenschönhausen is meant for German competitive sport. For example, some famous swimmers and speed skaters trained there and for a long time Germany's best ice hockey club played there. However, its soccer "stadium" is in a very poor state, and the Senate of Berlin does nothing.
I have never spectated football in real life but maybe in 2025 I will attend a match of SV Lichtenberg 47 or BFC Dynamo. I live close to where those 2 clubs. Maybe, SV Lichtenberg 47 will make the jump back to 4th tier (Regionalliga Nordost) this season.
I looked around on Google Maps and I think the "Tempelhofer Feld" would be the ideal spot for a soccer stadium. Part of it lies next to the freeway A100 and the S-Bahn. Actually, before the construction of the airport there was a huge soccer stadium on that spot. The airport was closed 15 years ago and nothing really happened since then.
very cool , only story that dynamo berlin got the best player is not true , only from Berlin and Brandenburg 😀
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I want to go Germany in 2025, where would you recommend for history ww2 and football? Thinking of Berlin. But can’t decide which team to follow😂 Great Vid mate
Cheers mate!
So for football it is the best to get to Western Germany like the "Ruhrpott" with Schalke, Dortmund, Bochum, but in western Germany there is also the Rhine-Region with Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leverkusen, M'Gladbach. For Ww2 I'd definately recommend to.. Of course... Berlin, but also Brandenburg or in general eastern Germany
@The2Losties thanks mate, i opened a secret shirt box the other day and got 1.FC Magdeburg in the box and wondering how they are and are they worth following? I see some clubs are hard to get tickets and some not, i just want to start supporting a club in Germany!
@@obaboiio3449 Well, as someone from western Germany I do not really like Magdeburg, but I can imagine that they have a great football culture. I think we also know some background story's from 20th December there, I think they need every follower. If you like to cheer for clubs with a special story, try clubs like Heidenheim (with one coach, Frank Schmidt, they went from 5th division all the way up to Conference League) or SV Elversberg, a Club from a city which has 11k residents but they are in 2nd division and maybe they'll get even promoted to Bundesliga. Please make a good decision, it wouldn't be nice to support Hoffenheim,Leipzig or Wolfsburg as an English fan (?), the football cuture in Germany is way better than that. Have a nice evening + I can tell you really much about almost every club in 1st and 2nd bundesliga, just ask if questions! (:
I'm not sure what you mean by history ww2. Do you mean the remains of the Nazi era?
In that case, next to Berlin, Nuremberg would probably worth seeing. You could visit the documentation centre on the soil of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds including the (unfinished) Congress Hall which was planned for 50,000 seats.
Nuremberg also has a picturesque historic city just below the castle on the top. But, most importantly, 1. FC Nürnberg (commonly just called 'der Club') is probably one of the most passionate supported clubs in the 2. Bundesliga and was, once upon a time, a real powerhouse in West German football, winning nine championships including Bundesliga titles in the 60s. I guess the historic derby vs. Fürth has to be a very special experience.
But in case you want to see as many matches as possible and spend much more time than just a few days, more densely populated areas such as the mentioned Rhein-Ruhr area (where I live) or Berlin would be the ones I'd prefer. In Berlin, you have the opportunity to see some clubs and stadiums of the DDR-Oberliga of former East Germany as well.
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British fan you mean.
We’re seperate when it comes to football 😉 the Scottish don’t like us
@@RysFootyParadise Football yeah ok fair enough, but outside it = British.
@@RysFootyParadise Funny enough because of nationalists/seps in last few yrs, more fellow Brits/citizens north of Gretna have started supporting south of Gretna = football.
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Berlin has never really been a football city. When you compare that to other european capitals - let alone London - it's quite underwhelming.
True! PSG got the monopoly
the thing is that Berlin has much more sports. I mean a long time basketball and this season again great hockey with the Eisbären, Volleyball and all that stuff.
Nah thats not true. Berlin is different when it comes to football but they are a football City for sure
Thats not true. Berlin is THE Football City in Germany but its a poor City so in the top leagues you Cant See that anymore. But History Shows els