Football’s coming home, German-style …. The newly opened “Deutsches Fussballmuseum” in Berlin features about 10,000 exhibits on the history of football (soccer). The museum also highlights the economic and political aspects of Germany’s favourite sport with a focus on its development after the Second World War. Big screens show past football highlights and are also used for live screenings of matches.

Elsewhere in Germany, in a classic Ruhr valley derby, Dortmund has pipped Gelsenkirchen to become the home to the new 30 million euro German National Football Museum, which the German Football Federation (DFB) hopes to open in 2012. The cities of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen are located just half an hour apart, and their respective principal football clubs, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04, are bitter rivals. Ordinarily, the two cities’ fans receive just two chances per year – when the club sides play each other – to show true one-upmanship. The decision by the German Football Federation (DFB) to build the new German Football Museum in Dortmund and not in Gelsenkirchen, however, is a bit more permanent!

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