Some 827 viewers watched the event live SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin against him Borussia Monchengladbach which ended 0-0 on the 19th day of Bundesliga of the 1965-66 season in Olympiastadion and has the honor of being the smallest entry in a top-flight match at Germany Since its inception, they can now sing “We came to get drunk, we don’t care about the outcome” (from the catchy Los Inhumanos song ‘Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol’).
He SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin Became, in its only season in the German first division, the team with a negative record that it still holds. The humiliating defeat and negative results became a source of pride and a reason for prejudice for the fans so as not to be erased from the history of German football.
But, more than numbers and football, it is also an account of the political movements between the capitalist and socialist blocs after the construction of the wall of Berlin and caught a few unsuspecting novices.
A team from West Berlin
Berlincan be found at East Germanywas divided into four sectors controlled by the victorious powers of World War II, like everyone else Germany. He East Berlin was declared the capital of GDR while West Berlin participated as a federal state in the FRG. Hence the DFB’s interest in having a West Berlin team in the Bundesliga, which was created in the 1963-64 season with 16 teams and the Hertha Berlin to them as champions of Berliner Stadtliga. He TasmaniaWith him Herthahe Tennis Borussia Berlin and the Victoria Berlinis the most important club in the city in terms of the number of fans and sporting potential.
‘Tas’ dominated in the early 60s and became a champion in three championships Berlinin the 1958-59, 1960-61 and 1963-64 seasons while the Hertha He took it in 1961-62 and 1962-63. The creation of Bundesliga In 1963 he included them in the Hertha for his recent successes.
“If I open my mouth…”
It all started in the spring of 1965 with a rather thoughtless statement at a meeting in the area of Hertha BSC. With a one point advantage in the penultimate, the club just escaped relegation from Bundesliga finishing 14th out of sixteen teams. That night, two board members got into a fight over it. The treasurer Herzog He threatened: “If I open my mouth, the Hertha It will sink tomorrow.” The words reached the ears of those DFB that since February he strictly followed the accounting books of Hertha.
An audit discovered a deficit of 192,000 marks for salary payments and, automatically and for the violation of a law on the financial regulations of Bundesliga, will not be included in the next season. What happened was that many players did not want to move to Berlin and were paid under-the-table commissions. He Tennis Borussia Berlin won the Berlin Regionalliga from 1964-65 but lost in his promotion to the promotion, and the second classified, the Spandauer SV, I don’t want anymore. The third place is Tasmania.
distress message
He’s in a hurry SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin He worked to reunite his dispersed players as it was a holiday season. Search calls were issued and border checkpoints were activated. Players’ names, photos and car numbers are posted on all kinds of police information boards. He Tasmania was quickly strengthened. He let the goalkeeper in Heinz Rohloff of Hertha and the German international Horst Szymaniak to give quality to the squad.
On August 14, 1965 they debuted in the Bundesliga he is new Karlsruhe with 81,500 spectators supporting an ‘outsider’ team. But in the next match they received a humiliating 5-0 at home Borussia Monchengladbach And so they continued day after day for 31 games in which they did not know victory. In a season of 34 games, they won 2 (the first and on matchday 33 against Borussia Neunkirchen), they tied 4 and lost 28. At the end of November, as is usually done when a team is on a losing streak, they changed coaches: Franz Linken was replaced by Heinz-Ludwig Schmidtbut nothing has changed.
At the end of time they return to where they should be. The fans remain proud of the unbeaten records.
The negative notes
that their fans are proud of
1
Classificationin the historical table of the Bundesliga (of 51 teams that participated)Rank 51
2
Annotationgoals against / goals for108 / 15
3
Points Fewest points per season. (counts 2 points per success)8
4
JoysFewest wins in a season tied with Wuppertaler SV in the 1974-75 season2
5
DefeatsMost losses in a season28
6
Successes at homeOnly Bundesliga team did not win the away match0
7
Bad drawing (1)MORE MATCHES WITHOUT A WINNER31
8
bad at homeMORE INTELLIGENCE AS A LOCAL12
9
Bad drawing (2)MORE CONSECUTIVE HOME LOSSES8
10
Wulf-Ingo UsbeckLOWEST NUMBER OF PICHICHI GOALS BY TEAM4
Eleven
Against Meidericher SVWorst home defeat0-9
12
Lazy in their stadiumWorst points scored at home7 of 27
13
01/15/1966Worst attendance at a Bundesliga match827
Source: La Verdad
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