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German soccer used to be as divided as their country. The Berlin Wall split pitches as easily as it split their citizens. Bundesliga reigned over in the West with champions Bayern Munich. The DDR Oberliga sat at the other side of the wall. Poorer, lesser in quality, and filled to the brim with Eastern German athletes as political ideologies…

Johan Cruyff is the greatest Dutch soccer player to ever live. He made a name for himself playing for Ajax for almost a decade. Big was his mark on the Amsterdam club, so much that their home ground was renamed after him after his death. Cruyff played for Barcelona before moving to the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Aztecs and Washington…

http://gty.im/1188163630 Uniforia sounds like a funny word and it makes almost no sense when on its own. If you write it at the bottom of a soccer ball things get a little different. It is the name of the official match ball for the Euro 2020. Foria for “Euphoria” and Uni for “Unity”. So, why does the name of a funny-looking soccer ball…

We are now starting the third leg of the Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. We start by coming back to the us after visiting Toronto in the second leg. We will visit seven teams and travel 1,742 miles in 30 days. The first stop is in Detroit, then we head to Chicago to visit the Cubs and White Sox. From there, we travel to Milwaukee and Minnesota before…