When black and yellow play, the others cheer: 1860 Munich won on the first day of the third division match in Dresden.
Photo: imago/Dennis Hetzschold
For many people, life has had a deeper meaning again for a few days. Football is finally being played between Sassnitz and Suhl, the ugly ghost of the summer break has vanished in the hot air of the games. Reporters are again working on strange box sentences and outrageous comparisons between ball and bark. Poor MDR football fairy Stephanie Müller-Spirra carries out her fantastic wardrobe and somehow has to interview vaccination certificate forger Markus Beginning. No, I’m not saying publicly that a repentant sinner like Beginning coach fits incredibly well with Dynamo, who have been relegated to the second division and are based in Germany’s secret sworn capital, Dresden. But the gray of his complexion tastefully counteracted his mask of loss of meaning.
The color yellow, on the other hand, dominated the screen shortly afterwards on Saturday, when in the third division Dynamo Dresden was neatly torn apart in the home stadium by TSV 1860 Munich, who were dreaming of promotion. Beginning picked up where its numerous predecessors failed in the past season. In 2022, the SGD has not yet won a game. Up front, Mr. Kutschke tried in vain, Dynamo will have a hard time in league three this season. Whether the commitment was a good idea from the start remains to be seen. In his analysis of what happened on television, he came across as odd and rhetorically clumsy. He was definitely cheap, as some of the new signings on the pitch were leftovers and lacked the qualities of a savior.
In addition to Dresden, Zwickau, Halle and Aue can scratch their eyes out in the fight for promotion. Erzgebirge Aue scored a point in Freiburg. The strict disciplinarian Helge Leonhardt is still firmly in the Auer saddle. It seems like he’s the only person in the corner who can count to three. But let’s be honest, we like this wooden pointy hat wearer brand Strange, because he tells such beautiful nonsense and as a bad eye and Ossi patriarch of the very old school still teaches every nosy laptop wessi to fear. Aue means fight to the knife, no one knows that better than the old NVA fox, who allegedly likes to use his pinstripe suit to prove in the training camp with an ass bomb, where Barthel brings the death of a buddy. A down-to-earth rascal who often comes across as involuntarily funny in his speeches to the Auer audience, a down-to-earth entrepreneur and upstart after the reunification that only the Ore Mountains can conjure up. A weird original in the army of well-behaved bores, which we hope will last a long time.
Ball and moon face are round not only in Zwickau. Everyone knows those moments when you go so crazy playing football that you don’t know where you were and for a few seconds you didn’t notice anything but pure joy. That’s how I felt in the past with the numerous victories of the beloved Jena team against Halle and Zwickau. While Carl Zeiss has fallen hopelessly in love with the regional league for the time being or forever, in order to look for the jack of all trades of promotion there, lost in dreams, the two gray mice trundle through the third division half-motivated. East football doesn’t seem to be doing much there this season.
But we have Rostock and the biggest players in the world in league two so that we can have a little fun in front of the television. My prediction for the season: Hansa and 1. FC Magdeburg will not be relegated. Dynamo Dresden finished fourth, Aue was ninth, Halle and Zwickau were fighting against relegation.
