Reason behind names of football teams (3 Viewers)
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Bayern Munich was founded in 1900 by members of a Munich gymnastics club. The club played its first games in the regional Bayern league. Bayern's first success came in 1926 in the form of the championship of southern Germany, an achievement repeated two years later. Their first national honour was gained in 1932, winning the German championship by defeating Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 in the final. The advent of the Hitler regime put an abrupt end to Bayern's development. The president and the coach, both of whom were Jewish, left the country. Many others in the club also saw themselves purged. In the following years, Bayern, taunted as the "Jew's club", decayed into irrelevance.
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Deportivo Wanka is a Peruvian football club, based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes. It was founded in 1996[1] and is named after the Wankas people who formerly inhabited the area and after whom the city of Huancayo is named.
In 2000 it merged with Deportivo Pesquero (formerly Deportivo Sipesa) from Chimbote, which gave it access to the Primera División Peruana, playing in Huancayo and under the Wanka name.
The team aroused controversy in 2004 when it moved its base to Cerro de Pasco, the highest city in the world and almost certainly the world's highest venue for professional football, at an altitude of 4,380 m (13,973 ft) above sea level, well above the point where altitude sickness becomes a problem. Its opponents criticised the move as an attempt to stave off relegation by playing in conditions that no other team could tolerate, including hail, rain, near-freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen from the high altitude. The club was relegated that season anyway.
In 2006, it emerged that Deportivo Wanka strips had become a cult collectible item for British football fans, with over 1,000 strips selling in the space of a few weeks. This puzzled officials at the club; the British newspaper The Sun quoted a spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo_Wanka
In 2000 it merged with Deportivo Pesquero (formerly Deportivo Sipesa) from Chimbote, which gave it access to the Primera División Peruana, playing in Huancayo and under the Wanka name.
The team aroused controversy in 2004 when it moved its base to Cerro de Pasco, the highest city in the world and almost certainly the world's highest venue for professional football, at an altitude of 4,380 m (13,973 ft) above sea level, well above the point where altitude sickness becomes a problem. Its opponents criticised the move as an attempt to stave off relegation by playing in conditions that no other team could tolerate, including hail, rain, near-freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen from the high altitude. The club was relegated that season anyway.
In 2006, it emerged that Deportivo Wanka strips had become a cult collectible item for British football fans, with over 1,000 strips selling in the space of a few weeks. This puzzled officials at the club; the British newspaper The Sun quoted a spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo_Wanka
The reasoning behind the name is definitely interesting but has anyone thought of the crests or logos that the clubs use while some do have the significance of the city and all that some clubs I just don't understand....like what's the thought behind Bari's for example...its a chicken.
Anyone know why?
Anyone know why?
The reasoning behind the name is definitely interesting but has anyone thought of the crests or logos that the clubs use while some do have the significance of the city and all that some clubs I just don't understand....like what's the thought behind Bari's for example...its a chicken.
Anyone know why?
Anyone know why?
Yeah, it usually has something to do with the city. Capo di Gallo (rooster's head) is a mountain in Bari, I think. Maybe that's where the club headquarters is.