Focus on Germany

A league of their own - part one

August 17, 2012
By Uli Hesse
The new Bundesliga campaign, which will kick off in a week's time, is a special season - the league's 50th.

This Golden Jubilee will no doubt be marked by an avalanche of books and special programmes, though most of them are being held back for next summer, I suppose, which will see the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga's very first round of games, played on August 24, 1963.

However, the decision to scrap the old system and create a nationwide professional league was made, ...

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