The Football Manager Hunted by the Stasi

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Jörg Berger: The football manager hunted by the Stasi.
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The 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall has brought about a renewed interest in Jörg Berger and the footballing aspects of the Cold War in Germany. His son, Ron, is pleased people still admire him as one of the Bundesliga’s most charismatic operators, especially in Frankfurt, even if his own memories will continue to be coloured by the events of March 1979.
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East and West Germany originally appeared on the Athletic.

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Filip Talimdzioski 🤣🤣🤣

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We need a film of this

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FAM This film originally appeared on The Athletic

[@samuraisoul1043]

There is a film about the stasi called the lives of others a German film seen it years ago it was ok . More of a drama than action film .

[@pbjbagel]

@@samuraisoul1043 The Lives of Others is a great film and won Best Foreign Film at the 2007 Academy Awards. It's not really about the Stasi themselves, but about living in an environment with them. It is definitely a drama. Just like how this video more resembles a drama more than an action film.

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@@samuraisoul1043 One of the great films..

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These stories are so interesting. Football framed by history.

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I think you mean "history framed by football."

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@@pbjbagel hahaha

[@MisterSpinalzo]

you could make an entire episode just on how Berger saved Frankfurt from relegation in 1999. Shit was balls. Also Berger essentially build the Schalke team that won the UEFA-Cup in 1997 under Huub Stevens.

[@MaxisMaximal]

I know Ron from my childhood, he was camping in the 80s in Prerow East Germany every summer like my family did. We played often volleyball and football together at the beach. He's a great guy.

[@pellejohansen]

The Stasi originally spyed on you in the Athletic

[@olafweiske6132]

as someone who was still born in gdr (1986) and is a historian, i really appreachiate this video, especially the story of ron.

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Great video by Tifo from Ralph’s article. Sometimes you can only appreciate some football careers/personalities by some of the wider social and political context that they inhabit.

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The language you're reading originally appeared on the athletic.

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Karan Sreedhar would you people just fuck off with this shit? So they always announce the story is from a website, big fucking deal. You people are like toddlers. Anything repeated more than once has you giggling like fucking mongs.

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@@Jayfive276 what's the issue big guy? Just have a laugh why are you so mad? The athletic is amazing and i read stories from there all the time. And it's nice to see the video. It sounds like you who has got the problem.

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@@aidenfrost10 its not mocking, more just teasing. No one really has a problem with it ,its just messing around in the comments. Theres nothing wrong with that.

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Heart breaking watch that...His lad facing all those prejudices an not knowing his own Father,growing up....

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Funny, this semester i had a teacher in economics who grow up in East Germany, lol. Now seriously, i wish Tifo football could do more videos about football in East Germany, specially about the BFC Dynamo, who was the powerhouse of East Germany those days, about every player that defected, every player and coaches who worked for the Stasi as an informant(Torstein Gutschow, for example), and etc....

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This is heart-breaking. It beggars belief what horrid things some people will do for power, ideals and religion...

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According to Hawking, Earth originally appeared in The Athletic

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Stasi originally appeared on The Athletic

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Wild stuff, great content as always 👏🏽

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Tifo and The Athletic expose the humanity behind the professionals that are mostly considered commodities. Compelling story, and maybe one day I may subscribe to The Athletic.

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This comment originally appeared on The Athletic.

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Don't people get tired of posting the same comment in every video?

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Life originally appeared on the athletic

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Really compelling story, great stuff

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It originally appeared in the Atlantic

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this story is so cool!!!

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This Should be a movie

[@Christopher_TG]

Too long and intricate for a film. This should be an HBO miniseries like Chernobyl.

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Jorg Berger.... the german Sam allardyce !!

[@farfan97]

Berger was way better

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Have you already made a video about Lutz Eigendorf? The footballer who was killed by the Stasi?

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Anyone else heard that deep breath at 8:11?

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Appeared in the athletic

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Perhaps I should make videos like this on my analysis channel too. Great stuff like always

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Rage Against BIG BROTHER!

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Everyone be like bad German spies when 8 out of 10 of us would of most likely dome the same

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The concept of football originally appeared on The Athletic

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let's go more stuff about eintracht

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Wow..... How can a ball of sport become much bigger than that....

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Goodness Gracious, Athletic this Athletic That.

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Yeah god forbid there is a geoup that constantly has good content. Fuck

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Everything else in football is funded by gambling, fossil fuels and authoritarian states, yet you complain that Tifo is sponsored by a football writing website

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KZbin originally appeared on the Athletic

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Wow his son really paid for his father's actions

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2:00 Map based on borders between 1945-1992 is wrong, it was till 1991. But ok :)

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He left his young family.

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Horror Storys about East Germany are always popular

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Because the Stasi was unimaginable cruel by their tactics and ways of torturing

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Welp just finished watching UFC 245.

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Sooooo he was the German Sam Allardyce?

[@farfan97]

Berger was way better. At the example he guided schalke, which was more a jojo club at that time than a good side, to the third place in 1995/1996. He had big part in the win of the UEFA CUP 1997 thanks to this place, although he was sacked a few games into 1996/1997 replaced by Huub Stevens another legend.

[@bookertee2942]

love this kind of video but needs more context, who tf is the Stasi? who was beefing who? where did yugoslavia come into it??

[@GoulartGH]

(I'm typing this off of memory, so corrections are appreciated) after the second world war, where Germany lost to the allies, it was split into two halves - the West (capitalist) one, representative of the US, and the East (communist), representative of Russia. both sides were separated by the Berlin Wall. living conditions on the East side weren't great at all, so many ran away to the West. as such, Russia implemented a MASSIVE spying network in East Germany, which was the Stasi. its goals, for short, were to essentially find and punish "traitors of the State". so basically, the manager in the video ran from East Germany to West Germany, and as a result, the Stasi considered him a traitor and continuously attempted to punish him and his family for it. all of his son's rejections into football clubs, school and the like were the Russia-backed spying network acting behind the scenes because they don't want people leaving East Germany for a better place. hope this helps put the video into context! (and if you're interested, do some research on your own; as I said, I'm typing this off of memory and might've gotten something wrong. cheers!)

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The Stasi was originally created by the Athletic.

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This Story 🤝 originally appearing The Athletic

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What a chad

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I was appeared on Athletic

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Hard life vs easy life....

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Your life originally appeared on The Atlantic

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Sorry for my OCD but he was 65 😂

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Dark Leader how is that funny?

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Hows that OCD

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That's not OCD, that's just attention seeking.

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@@vicsiffs4132 it's not

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[@Sam-lr9oi]

Sort of amusing Berger would be bothered by former DDR officials in the German FA after reunification considering all the former Nazis that were kept around in the west despite supposed denazification, though I guess by '79 he wouldn't have seen much of that.

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Single men are a flight risk??

[@DevoteeOfAergia]

Because it was considered they were at a high risk of defecting to the West since they had no family in the East.

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Any one pls explain this story in a sentance

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First comment woo!

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Have we really come so far as a society so we know have to explain homosexuality used to be taboo. My understanding it still is and frowned upon it might not be a popular opinion but is hardly shocking it is. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

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Petition to boycott the Athletic starting after this video.

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Why?

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@@kristofmeszaros5223 I know, just wanted to see how it would go. But to be honest, I HATE the Athletic - they are money grubbers who are ruining football online.

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@@Jayfive276 they are money grubbers who are ruining football online

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