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The German Football Museum in Dortmund gives fans a new hotspot.
In Germany there are always good reasons to talk about football. Currently there are particularly many: Berlin is the host of the Champions League Finals; the German women’s football team is one of the favourites at the World Championship in Canada; and in Dortmund the German Football Museum is preparing to open its doors. The museum tells the story of the German national sport: more than six million people in the country play football in over 25,000 football clubs.
Mario Götze’s finals’ shoe
The museum in the Dortmund Königswall is expected to become a magnet for football fans. It is structured like a game. The first half tells the history of football in Germany, including the greatest triumphs: from the victory of the German team in the heartbeat final of 1954 in Bern and the legendary World Cup final match at Wembley in 1966 to the most recent success in 2014 in Brazil. There the team of national coach Joachim Löw gained the fourth star with an outstanding team performance. Visitors to the museum can learn more about the social, political, social and economic role of football, and also marvel at “relics”: for example, the original final match ball from 1954 and the left shoe of the World Cup Finals German goal scorer Mario Götze. Further topics include women’s football and football in East Germany. Through a cinema, where films about football can be seen, the visitor comes to the first floor. The second half of the museum is dedicated to club football in Germany – from the Bundesliga and the European Cup competitors to amateur sport, the grass roots movement of Germany’s most successful sport.
Champions League Finals, 6 June 2015 in Berlin
Women’s Football World Championship, from 6 June to 5 July 2015 in Canada
Start of online tickets pre-sale for the German Football Museum, June 2015
