Desperate in Germany

[airranz]

Hello everybody, I really need your help. I am leaving this year in Berlin and I really need watch spanish football and I don´t know where.

Specially I would want to watch the most important match: Spain - Slovakia
Anybody can help me? Any place in Berlin for watching spanish football Pleaseeeeeeeeeee

["Eisenfuß" Eilts]

Hello everybody, I really need your help. I am leaving this year in Berlin and I really need watch spanish football and I don´t know where.

Specially I would want to watch the most important match: Spain - Slovakia
Anybody can help me? Any place in Berlin for watching spanish football Pleaseeeeeeeeeee

Hola, airranz, que tal? :D

I am not from Berlin, but here are some general tips for watching
football from other leagues (e.g. primera div) in Germany.
Hope they are useful:

Look for a Premiere Club/Bar/Restaurant.
Premiere broadcasts Primera Divsion every week,
e.g. next weekend they show: Villareal - Valencia, Real - Sarragossa
and Getafe - Barca.
In Berlin are many sports-bar.
I remember a good sports bar near railway station "Bahnhof Zoo",
but i can´t remeber the name. :confused:
I think, the guys from Berlin will be able to help you more.

Premiere also shows CL, UEFA-cup and International matches.
I am not sure, if they show Spain vs. Slovakia,
i only read on their website something about:
Norway - Czech Rep. and Turkey - Switzerland
ARD/ZDF/DSF (free-tv channels) show internationals also sometimes,
but they don´t have so much broadcasting rights.

Other good tip: Go with some friends into the sportsbar, it´s more fun and
you have a better chance to say what the owner of the bar should show.

[96Squig]

If you stay longer and get an apartment it will make more sense to get premiere for one year. If a Sportsbar has to decide between Spain and Germany (or possibly Turkey, Ireland, England, Poland or Russia) they'll decide against Spain, even though premiere may offer both.

If the game is aired on public TV in Spain you may be able to receive it via satelite.

Maybe you will find a Spanish Premiere Sportsbar, but I doubt that.

Highlights are shown on Eurosport and DSF, results on Euronews, btw.

[F96]

http://www.mtas.es/consejerias/alemania/OtrasInf/AsocCentros.htm

Just call a number in Berlin, they might be able to help you.

[airranz]

Thank yoy very much for your help,...

I know about Premiere Sportsbar, but they don´t usually show spanish football, at least on Sundays, on Saturday night it could be posible. I have tried in bet houses and in one of this (but I dont remembere where) places I read something about personalized TV anyone know anything about this?
People living in Berlin that love Spanish Football, Let´s create a group!!! :-)

[DanielHSV]

I don't know about Berlin, but in Hamburg there are a lot of spanish and portugese pubs and restaurants, most of them have satellite TV and usually show all the important games from Spain or Portugal. So my advice would be to look for spanish bars, pubs etc. in Berlin and ask them, if they show the games. Otherwise you should just drive to Hamburg, shouldn't be a problem to see that game here ;)

[ohk4]

http://www.mtas.es/consejerias/alemania/OtrasInf/AsocCentros.htm

Just call a number in Berlin, they might be able to help you.

Good idea, 96erin, and here is a website http://www.flamenco-seiten.de/adressen_zentren.htm
of some other "Spanish Institutions in Germany". Also, Daniel's idea was a good one. Even in little ol' Bamberg, there is a Portugesisches Zentrum where (I think) they show Portuguese games.

[Vfbstuttgartfan]

Just go to a Spanish pub, i'm sure they have a bunch, especially in Berlin. It should be no problem really. Forget Premiere, there's no waz they'll show Spain in a Premiere Sportsbar, they'll just show Germany or Turkey.

[PileD]

Hello everybody, I really need your help. I am leaving this year in Berlin and I really need watch spanish football and I don´t know where.

Specially I would want to watch the most important match: Spain - Slovakia
Anybody can help me? Any place in Berlin for watching spanish football Pleaseeeeeeeeeee

When all not helps written in comments above, try digital network (by ISH e.g.)

There you get Spanish tv for 4 euros plus.
Digital cable (around 17 euros +4 - 3 € for the box and digital - 1 € for the spanish channels). When the prizing is like in the Ruhrarea.

You get around 150 channels free, + the spanish.

Or try to watch over the computer, you've around 1500 Channels, but see the games in different languages.

It`s funny to watch a game and listen to an Arabic comment or an chinese comment.

In the arabic TV they spoke the names of players and the clubs like in your language. They report is in high quality.

A little trick, watch it over the web and listen to the spanish radio.
Simple, no sound from the machine, only radio sound.
You'll have a perfect football show in your language. And the radio comments are much better then this, what you get on tv.

[airranz]

You are right PileD, the first I think when I came to Germany was that I could watch matchs in Internet, but my DSL connection won´t work until the end of November. I will miss the qualification matches for the World Cup of Spain, and Real Madrid-Barcelona if I can´t found a solution

[AGF Aarhus]

The Old Emerald Isle in Kreuzberg nearly always shows the Sunday night game, and often Saturday as well as it comes on after the English games are finished.

Just ask at the bar and they'll usually sort you out.

[AGF Aarhus]

PS: the Oscar Wilde in Mitte lists on its website that they will be showing the playoff games. They've been known not to show what they say they will, but it's still possibly your best chance.

http://www.oscar-wilde-irish-pub.de/

[airranz]

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I need. I'll be there this Saturday, supporting Spain...

I owe you a beer :-)

[jonam]

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I need. I'll be there this Saturday, supporting Spain...

I owe you a beer :-)


Their schedule:

2006 World Cup - Play-Offs Europe

Sat 12th
Norway - Czech Republic 19:30
Switzerland - Turkey / Spain - Slovakia

Wed 16th
Australia - Uruguay 10:00

return legs Wed 16th November


Btw, I live a 15min walking distance from there. ;-)

[AGF Aarhus]

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I need. I'll be there this Saturday, supporting Spain...

I owe you a beer :-)

Glad I could be of help. I may drop by, then. I've been searching for any place to watch Scotland - USA, but I think I'm SOL.

I actually have deep, personal problems with the Wilde and make an effort not to got there (as I alluded to above, this stems from them saying they will show certain games and then not doing so), but that's my problem.

I normally prefer the Emerald Isle, but I have to grudgingly admit that the Wilde is laid out much better for football.

I've been searching for another solution, but so far have not found none. All of the other 'Irish' pubs in Berlin are about as Irish as bratwurst.

For you, I would still recommend looking for a Spanish cafe, but I'm afraid I can't suggest any.

[AGF Aarhus]

Well what do you know. The Wilde now says it's showing Scotland-USA. I'll believe this when I see it, but I'm there for sure, now.