TIM CARROLL charts the forgotten years of East German football
Dynamo Berlin stadium
With World Cup success in Brazil, German football is on a high. But it is only a dozen years since German football was in the doldrums and just 25 years ago that football in a divided country was reunited. We may know a lot about retiring World Cup winning captain Philip Lahm, Pep Guardiola’s Bundesliga champions Bayern München, and the 5-1 defeat to England in September 2001, but a more fascinating facet of Germany’s soccer story that remains little known is that of football in the ...
