The new football museum
The German Football Museum is opening in Dortmund. 7 curious facts about football in Germany.
Did you know that…
… the four current Champions League participants VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich were not in the Bundesliga when the competition was founded in 1963/64?
… National coach Joachim Löw began his coaching career in 1994 as a youth coach for FC Winterthur in Switzerland? 20 years later the German team won the World Cup in Brazil under his leadership.
… in his youth Franz Beckenbauer, who celebrated the greatest successes with FC Bayern Munich, considered changing to TSV 1860 München? In a match against 1860 an opponent slapped him in the face, so he changed his mind.
... in 1973 Eintracht Braunschweig was the first team in the Bundesliga to carry advertising on its shirts causing a storm of indignation?
… Adi Dassler was the founder and name giver of Adidas? And that his brother Rudolf Dassler founded Puma? Both of these sportswear manufacturers are now among the largest in the world.
... if they had beaten Germany in the qualifying round, the team from the (present-day federal state) Saarland would have prevented Germany from taking part in the 1954 World Cup? Germany won and gained its first World Cup title.
… women’s football was banned in Germany until 1970? Today Germany, alongside the USA, has the world’s most successful women’s national football team.
The German Football Museum opens on 25 October 2015 in Dortmund
