Roughly translated from German, ‘ein kampf zwischen brüdern’ means ‘a struggle between brothers’ and has been used to describe the game that took place as part of the initial group stages of the World…
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When RB Leipzig were promoted to the Bundesliga in 2016 they were only the fifth club from the former East Germany to grace the Bundesliga, and the first since 2009. Of those…
This feature is part of A Tale of One City On 13 August 1961, the Berlin Wall was built. It stood for 10,316 days, until it was torn down on 9 November…
When the full-time whistle was blown was blown on the 2014 World Cup final at the Maracanã in Rio, more Polish-born players collected winner’s medals than East German-born players did, as part of a…