that negotiations are still ongoing behind the scenes the square should have been unveiled already it's unclear when this will happen now. and you're up to but i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the al in the meantime there's always the website of the dot com at any time for now but i'm at the help from the team here in berlin thanks watch. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the book. rico is in germany to learn german one on one with him it's simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos fake german made easy. beethoven is for me. is for. beethoven is for him.

and beethoven is for. beethoven is for everyone. beethoven 2020. 150th anniversary here on d w. manchester madrid role it's been liverpool moscow milan it's 10 bold london just about every major european city has at least a couple world famous soccer teams. what about here in berlin. despite capital

of football players germany bruins are known as being a bit of a soccer black hole better known for thumping techno and fine are going for sports . chair to are the city's biggest team yes they usually play in the bunch but they struggle and they've been the only top team in town for a long time berlin hasn't had 2 teams in the bundesliga since the seventy's. with a lot of football but i don't think it's a football city there is there to legend and current manager mickael it's his response when i ask him to berlin it's a football city. it could be better of course but that looks at the change of this season it's now the newly promoted known berlin from the east and heritage in the west both represent berlin in the bundesliga something you can't say for anywhere else in germany. is this 5th season for linda finally becomes

a football city. or has it always been one there is constantly a team got the most teams playing at every level in the country side like people don't love soccer here but there are reasons it's not seen as a football city let's start with those. really has a historical feature that sets it apart from just about every city in the world even today all this is played out in the shadow of the berlin wall. it's not just the dark rooms that make berlin special few places on earth have witnessed such a ton more choice passed as the city and its this history that continues to define . the city was smack in the center of the cold war germany was split between east and west while the capital was divided as well roughly 40 years of division shape today's football landscape. passion for football is built on arrival you can get out with a good neighbors. not easy to do when there's literally

a wall cutting your city and if. you don't phantom writer in go knows all about this. in the west when you want to watch the clock in the east so disappointed each other so it was like a friendship. in east and west they drank different beers they even had different lights at their crosswalks no surprise they had vastly different football. east and west germany had separately meaning many of biggest clubs like heritage and you know and have rarely played each other west berlin was surrounded by use germany cut off from regional competition. isolation meant most teams couldn't push each other or develop lasting rivalries. when the wall came down and stablished clubs in the west of germany had the cash to poach players from the eastern sides and berlin's been a relatively poor city until recently. has been a heritage fan for decades. and. she's

proud of how much her club has gotten out of a limited budget. over . time rich western clubs have dominated since the fall of the wall 30 years back former east german clubs are a rarity in the upper leagues which means her to enter in your own don't have much competition nearby in the top tier not easy to be a football city with empty coffers and limited local competition but constant change is built into berlin's d.n.a. on paper character the biggest club in the city should be a footballing power and their own. top side were founded before the turn of the century have plenty of history and are in a regional but this league i'm. heritage on average of $49000.00 fans

a game more than chelsea you pay in p.s.g. unfortunately big crowds in a boisterous also aren't enough to guarantee a good atmosphere at that massive the olympic stadium which is still half empty with 40000 people on it. its heritage they just haven't captured the city's imagination salomon kalou is probably heritage most recognizable player still he told us his favorite part of living in berlin is the peace and quiet. you go outside to see the number of the market farms i think that will be the big difference. i am not sure if that springs football city characters ads from last season actually had the motto of in berlin you can be anything even a haircut fan inspired. despite their tradition and fan culture hair to have a reputation for being a bit soulless it doesn't help that they're so middle of the road on the field just because then ferry covers berlin's lower league football for bloody hell magazine.

nothing shoot me against head but they had to find them very boring because what some find boring means authenticity it's a long time spans the whole tension she believes it's just you know i have one gee i thought i might be. that might change care to clearly have grander designs and investor pumped 125000000 euros into the club this offseason leading to some exciting new signings including breaking their transfer record and dodie league of bucky oh. we need some some some success too to build a big. football community as we're. conceived and bought into good. hair to claim to represent the whole city on your own haven't strayed from their local eastern warrants. on your own stand for the best of berlin soccer they

have a storied history presenting themselves as an alternative to the state police back to normal for a win in the d.d.r. era and they all have an intractable relationship to their neighborhood of kerpen it plus the fans had literally given up blood sweat and tears for their. it's not like 20089 that was like the last rebuilding off the stadium where a lot of modern like 2000 fans actually took part in terror really. 10 actions have made global headlines perpetuating an oft oversimplified myth but now many fans roll their eyes when they hear the phrase cold club yes i'm tired of that really. improves play and the legendary status of their fan culture has caused some growing pains. this family feeling was being. challenged at the moment in the past 3 years the stadium was almost every game sold out we have 30000 members you know we have like i think. just go with the wrong

12000. in typical fashion didn't raise ticket prices for their 1st ever promotion to the bundesliga it will be a tough slog at the top but selling out the stadium won't be a problem on your own inherit some may have had across well friendship in the old days and this is only their 3rd ever season in the same league still promotion could reset things. new and inherit so far and in fact a fierce rivals one of whom your own can manage to stay up long enough for the cue props to develop a history of playing against one another this therapy might just be what it takes to weeknight the soccer scene in this. but does berlin really need hair to them to succeed to become a football city or has it been one all along. what's affordable city it's not when you look only like it to see the success like in professional football when you look at the culture of culture is

a very. powerful culture and we have more debt for the football club berlin has just about as many soccer teams as a journalist can't walk more than 5 minutes about stumbling i mean charming historic ground the clubs dotting the city have proud histories and ties to their local community is so let's run through a dense and diverse footballing landscape a little known to those outside of the german capital. founded in berlin and 888 is the country's oldest active club ethnic clubs like to keep. community centers for immigrant or minority groups came forward even on the verge of promotion to the 2nd division in the ninety's but were falsely penalized for incorrectly registering a foreign player i guess that's just multicultural berlin for you babbles derek base just outside of berlin playing the same ground as weapons powerhouse to being a part stem and sport a politically engaged ultra scene you. are going to sleep inside tennis or. take

a day of a different style support equally progressive identity because i might be in the movie. i just talked about it with i think what i found i was of crimes forgotten that i hope to abide by them because the condition. of what i'm writing their history in west berlin and the regional leagues in the ninety's means that taping you seen both known and heritage as rivals and t.v. it was we were inside. the body take metallica when you were visiting or to out of the movie by the you also if you've. got me when i'm not trying to find out which will print shop i'm going off on how to friends who are involved when i'm also not all berlin football history is glorious just look at his money after a win because money have the crowd distinction of the bundesliga is the worst ever record or there's dino time time d.d.r.

champs formerly favored by the east german secret police today they play in the 4th division but are still probably union's biggest rivals can't even go one even say their name though i'm not going to say the name. they might have noticed a fair amount of bald heads heading into the stadium and i wish i could tell you that they're within alopecia outbreak in east berlin but unfortunately it has a reputation of being filled with right wing fans so in the off chance they can smell my ethnic background i think it's time we get out there. for every cool team playing at the local or regional level berlin has about 15 non-league side it's nonstop football here in berlin and all of these lower division clubs have their own identities and stories to tell. the scene is fantastic but it seems like a waste with all these awesome teams whiling away in the 4th 5th and 6th divisions . berlin is nothing if not constantly changing soccer here is no different. but

expect more from a german city with 4000000 residents but berlin is buzzing about having 2 teams in the bundesliga but up 1st time in over 40 years. it would be of course a lot of pressure to do so in the city like who will sit to troll a month between. have been you. know plenty of the city's football fans might not even be watching the derby. but if you're living in berlin and you're watching just these 2 clubs in your own head you're missing out on so much football and there is drama there is action that you're liable to get laughed at for suggesting berlin is a soccer city it's still a far cry from london or madrid but things finally seem set to change at the top thanks so when you own any character and as we've seen the basis is there for even more once you scratch past the surface.

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