Really interesting. Currently live in Berlin so will go out and buy that tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.
My mistake aye, thought I had seen it before to be honest - Puma kits.It’s a Feb 2021 cover. “How Steven Gerrard taught the Glasgow Rangers to Win”. Definitely a current topic!
The web article is from March last year.
It depends on which supporters you are talking about. We were out of European football for so long that today we have missed half a generation of younger fans.I might be wrong but I always get the impression that The Rangers are well-liked and respected by German fans. Particularly older fans.
I think we also played German opposition both East and West on a fair amount of times in the earlier years of European Football and were thus the Scottish team that would have become the most familiar to their supporters.It depends on which supporters you are talking about. We were out of European football for so long that today we have missed half a generation of younger fans.
However, for older fans we were always known as a, maybe even the, ’Tradition Club’ ie long established and with a legion of fans, and that was 100% respected. Certain clubs’ fans were always positive for us including Uerdingen, SV Hamburg, and 1860, as well as Magdeburg, Coburg, Rostock, and Jena from the east. It wasn’t unusual either to see Rangers badges on fans’ scarves. Rangers also used to play in Germany almost every season or at least every other one. So fans were generally familiar with us. We were featured in ‘Kicker‘ Magazine, and I think there was a documentary on us too.
As I have said on here before, when we played 1FC Koeln back in the 70s we were introduced as ‘Die Weltberuhmten Glasgow Rangers’ - the world famous Glasgow Rangers. No one brought as many fans as us, and matches were always hard fought, so the footballng public always looked forward to the game as being a serious test. And, the fans made a bit of a spectacle, the pubs were full, so Rangers coming to town also created a bit of an atmosphere ;-).
Depends where really - Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayern, Babelsberg, Chemie, Mainz are toward Celtic from my experience - some pretty obvious there because of their politics and walk out song. Hannover quite strong towards Rangers I have seen and heard - sure a load came over a few year back for an Old Firm match, obviously HSV and Bochum as well. Many Germans have real interest in the British game and appreciate proper history. I can talk with some lads over there mind who think Chelsea are a plastic Club because of the money from RA and have no idea of the fan scene they have always had which is a bit sad, they see them in the same mould as say Wolfsburg. One Club that many Germans are really interested in is FC United. Lot of fan friendships in Germany now with English Clubs - has got a bit daft now to be honest, all a Facebook thing in a way. You can see all kinds of stickers when out and about over there linking Clubs - just the way modern Football has gone really.I might be wrong but I always get the impression that The Rangers are well-liked and respected by German fans. Particularly older fans.
Should have been in Leverkusen.Been to watch us in Germany 5 times, and yet to see us score.
Cologne - twice. 5-0, 2-0
Dusseldorf. 0-0. (qualified)
Munich. 0-0
Munchengladbach. 0-0
Or Stuttgart twice. Bochum 92/93 vs CSKA MoscowShould have been in Leverkusen.
Surely that must be the biggest ever GIRFUY to ANY vising team, anywhere.
Been to watch us in Germany 5 times, and yet to see us score.
Cologne - twice. 5-0, 2-0
Dusseldorf. 0-0. (qualified)
Munich. 0-0
Munchengladbach. 0-0
Because we fly the flag of their liberators!I might be wrong but I always get the impression that The Rangers are well-liked and respected by German fans. Particularly older fans.
Here is the article translated :
Football culture magazine
11 F 20 years of Ibrox
Willie Vass
20 YEARS OF 11FREUNDE!
" A good lady's front bottom!"
In the summer of 2012, the student Philipp Züfle goes to Scotland for a semester abroad. A little later he runs against the Rangers. In the Ibrox. In front of 45,000 spectators.
By Philipp Züfle , Minutes Max Dinkelaker
PAGES
MARCH 21, 2020
DIVIDE
DIVIDE
Page 3: I was banned and the trainer ignored me
Back then, my brother watched the game live " Rangers TV" on the Internet. At half-time it was all about my foul. Repetitions, analyzes, the whole program. My brother said later that it was dark yellow at most. But the Rangers reporters saw it differently. In the end we lost 2: 6. The days after that were hell. Rangers fans wrote me on Facebook, what I would imagine attacking Kevin Kyle like that.
My trainer was also extremely pissed off and criticized me publicly on the radio. At school, the children kept taking out their school calendars and holding them in front of my nose. The things were bright red. And even the Rector's morning speech was about the foul, the man was crazy about football. To be honest, before the game I had dreamed a bit again. I was only 23 years old and thought that maybe something would go in the direction of a professional career. But this experience brought me back down to earth. After all: our fans didn't take it amiss. When I snuck out of the field, they applauded.
After that I was out for a whole month. I was banned and the trainer ignored me. Not a good time. But: there was still the second leg. And the Ibrox topped it all off. I ran through the catacombs, saw the trophies, all the pictures, goosebumps. The cabins are great too. Everyone has their own locker, jerseys are lined up on a hook, and there is a dehydration pool. And then this mood! Police on horseback were everywhere in the streets, because: Despite the forced relegation, masses of fans made the pilgrimage to the stadium.
The only problem: the kick-off was at twelve o'clock. Weird time to play football. I didn't even know when to eat - and only had a ready-made pasta salad with me. In a plastic tray. I wanted to eat it in the cabin. But there was a cameraman there all the time, filming everything. Somehow I couldn't get it, instant noodles out of the plastic bowl, in front of the camera, before the game at the Ibrox. So I didn't eat anything. Which wasn't bad in the end, because when I stepped onto the lawn to warm up, the lights were on for me. 44,534 spectators watched - what an unbelievable backdrop. My father and my roommates were also there.
Now it was all paying off.