As it’s Thursday, the new format of content features on a particular team. As my friends are here visiting from Germany and one is a season ticket holder at the club, what better time than to go back and revisit Kaiserslautern’s incredible 1997/98 season.
Die Roten Teufel (The Red Devils) were Bundesliga champions in 1991 but after coming 4th in 1995, incredibly they were relegated to the second tier one year later. The crazy thing is that they also won the German Cup that season and so went into the European Cup Winners’ Cup for the following campaign.
FCK bounced back immediately, winning the Bundesliga 2. by ten points. But what happened next is the real Hollywood story.
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