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What went wrong with the reunification of German football?

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November 8, 2019

Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, several East German clubs were quite successful in Europe. Thirty years on, no team from the last season of the former GDR's top flight plays in the Bundesliga. But why?

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