Union Berlin is rising in the Bundesliga. The tradition of the club through the hard-fought play-off against VfB Stuttgart. A new Era begins for the unusual club from Köpenick.
A bigger day was there in the club’s history. The Berlin were once the third-final against Schalke 04 (0:2) But now, Union Berlin is playing for the first time in the upcoming season in the Bundesliga League in the year 2001 in the Cup. After the 0:0 in the relegation game against VfB Stuttgart (first leg 2:2) is managed. “It’s a dream come true,” said club veteran Michael Parensen with tears in his eyes and in disbelief immediately after the final whistle.
It was a great Party, the Fans and the team after the conclusion of the celebrated on the lawn of the “Old Forester”. Cheers, disbelief, speechlessness and pure joy among the Thousands of wide – could not believe their luck.
“Who can not be from the West to buy? Eisern Union!”
The tradition club from the district of Köpenick, which has been traditionally under-privileged true, and was often on the precipice, and in front of big problems with playing, soon, actually in the elite League. So much was this late in the evening.
Some from the club in spite of the jubilation, but also an ambivalent feeling. The Unioner are also there, where the unbridled football-capitalism at home – and where the Berlin must be the laws of this market is subordinate.
“Who can not be from the West to buy? Eisern Union!”, Nina Hagen sings of the special and long-maintained attitude of the club and its Fans in the club’s anthem. Unioner see themselves as outsiders. These are the special Berlin family is grown up. And they are also very proud to the East of the capital.
Union stadium is to be expanded
If you look, however, is slightly more accurate, has adapted to this club in the past few years the Modern more and more and the Berlin story, a little blurring. Because, with a budget of around 16 million euros, the Unioner were already in the past second League season to the Top Teams (behind the financially far enteilten Cologne and hamburgers).
The club officials want to expand the stadium, the bodies once the Fans with their free-of-charge work force new, from 22,000 to 37,000 seats. In the Bundesliga, these plans are of course much better. Firstly, because the TV money (at least tens of millions of euros more) to increase significantly. On the other, the audience is likely to accept rush of unprecedented proportions.
The climb is managed, and thus a new Era in Köpenick is begun that will affect the club further. The Union-the family. in your particular type of perceived “Underdogs” but also to continue the old habits of care – however, with the view of the new challenges that will bring the new time, inevitably, with