Following on from SpVgg Bayreuth on Saturday, our Sunday game took us on a very interesting journey North through the old DDR to the city of Halle (Salle) the birthplace of George Frideric Handel.
The journey also involved a change of train at Zwickau, where the old Hauptbanhof gave an idea of the old East Germany.
VfL Halle 1896 are the oldest football club in the city of Halle and were founder members of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) in 1900. The football club have been playing at their Stadion am Zoo since it was opened in 1910. The ground has a large uncovered stand on one side and a massive old open terrace on the other.
There is a clubhouse but today we opted to drink our Köthener from the patio chairs outside the door!
There is a clubhouse but today we opted to drink our Köthener from the patio chairs outside the door!
The club play in the NOFV Oberliga Sud (level 5) which is basically the old East German Oberliga, which came into being after reunification in 1990.
Energie Cottbus reserves (cue audible gasps from the groundhopping purists) were the visitors to VfL Halle's today, a 4th v 5th encounter, but in truth an end of season dead rubber. It was a baking hot afternoon and the pace of the game never really got above pedestrian.
The game had 0-0 written all over it until in the 68th minute Robin Huth finally broke the deadlock to give the homesters the lead. No sooner had the dust settled then Matthias von der Weth (70) doubled Halle's advantage.
Huth scored his second from the penalty spot in the 81st minute before Stephan Schammer (86) completed the scoring.
Both teams finished the game with 10 men apiece after Franz Hausdorf (Cottbus) and Pascal dos Santos Coelho (Halle) received straight red cards, both for serious foul play.
Robin Huth scores from penalty spot (left) The melee after the
foul by Franz Hausdorf's that led to his red card (right)
The final whistle of the game brought down the curtain on season 2013/14 as far as I was concerned, so once again I'd to thank all who have took time to read my inane ramblings. Until next time....
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