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[En] 2nd Bundesliga: 1. FC Union Berlin – 1. FC Kaiserslautern

When I travelled to Berlin four years ago, I saw some people wearing Union shirts at Warschauer Straße station. I wondered if there was a game in Berlin. At that time, I didn’t know much about anything outside Bundesliga. I remember I checked the fixtures and knew that there wasn’t a (Bundesliga) game in Berlin. But I followed them to board a S-Bahn anyway without knowing where they were heading to.

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[En] J1 League: Kashiwa Reysol – Vegalta Sendai

It was the first Japanese club that made most of the Germans, including me, realised that Japanese football also had fan culture like Europe: they had ultras with their own banners, flags and chants. Almost everyone in Europe, especially Germany, watched the video of Sendai’s legendary away support in Yokohama in 2009. But it was also a club, that became famous because its tragic history.