Chemie is the successor to Sachsen Leipzog. SGLL is Sportgemeinschaft Leipzig-Leutzsch, one of the other clubs formed in the aftermath of Sachsen Leipzig's insolvency. Chemie were twice East German champs.
Yeah, if the supplier bothers you, you might have to changes clubs on a season-by-season basis . Eintracht went through 5 during my time, I think. Chemie Leipzig aren't really a successor strictly speaking, they split from the club when Sachsen Leipzig still existed. Both cubs claim to be the one and only spiritual successor, though and hate each other. It's kind of a cluster********.
It really is. I got to see a lot of it in person. I studied at Uni Leipzig right after the split. The Diablos were still going to some FC Sachsen games, but most of their time was devoted to Chemie. And now I think SGLL are changing their name to SG Sachsen Leipzig. So yeah, there's that.
Don't buy the kit. You can design your own shirt with the Stuttgart emblem and get it printed at any number of places either locally on on the internet.
I think people make too much of this. I have an equal number of friends that support either SGE or Kickers Offenbach OR they support Real, Man U, Bayern. Maybe this is a generational thing as we are all only 21 or so. Then again I have a few friends who ALWAYS watch fussball and they say supporting one club is "too german" for them so they just enjoy a good game.
Hahahah! No, no. I think is pretty common in Germany. A few of our dad's always want tickets for whoever is the "hot" team this year zB. Dortmund, Freiburg, Mainz, etc. My uncle has never lived in bavaria, doesn't even have a german passport but he still supports Bayern. Still people are too worried about "choosing a team" the team usually chooses you. I think you have to make the trip and actually fall in love. If you are so concerned about having your own team it is only because you are vain but if it just happens then you will know it. And no my friends aren't hipsters at all(i only recently move to Berlin) otherwise I am from a town filled with polish people just outside FFM. Maybe this is again a problem with the globalization of football. People from all over want to love a club in the same way the residents do. I'm not sure it can happen like this but then again I am no psychologist.
Just for the record, I am kidding and overexxagerating. I became a Dortmund fan in 94, and a 96 fan when we go promoted to BL2 in 97 (my love for BVB has since faded a lot). In the end I always find it weird if a club choses you that has no connection to you whatsoever.
I recently was on a Lufthansa flight and one of the entertainment features was a "50 Years of the Bundesliga" show. Unfortunately they only had 2 episodes, the 60s and 70s, and both were so fantastic that I watched them twice each on both flights. I would have liked to see the other decades. Uwe Seeler scoring a goal on a bike while sitting flat on his behind, Peter Radinkovich dribbing the ball out to the midfield stripe (in a snowstorm, no less), losing the ball, winning it back, losing it again, and before he could try to win it back, his captain grabs him by the shirt to tell him to get his ass back in the goal, and ends up throwing him down in the snow! In the 70s, it was Gunther Netzer, who was my favorite player as a kid ('gladbach were often feautred on the BL highlight program that was the only soccer on TV at all in the US at the time), plus guys like Klaus Fischer, Rainer Bonhoff, Sepp Maier and a few others. Does anyone know if these are out there anywhere? I searched You-Tube, Google, etc with no luck. Definitely worth a watch if you get to see these.
You surely can buy these in German and I guess it's just a matter of time before they offer an English (subtitled) version. DW and DFL also offer interesting reportages on 50 years Bundesliga -- but in German as well.