FanNation - The Republic of Sport

Not sure if an earlier comment I sent directly went through. I will try it this way: Glad to see a fellow Lowe. Although I have to give you props for being more up on them than I am right now. I had to read on Kicker.de what you were referring to about Goektan. Cocaine. Yup.

Anyhow, my reason for being a Loewe stems from playing for one of their youth teams in the late 70's. After I came back, and before the internet, I kind of lost touch with them. I visit their page every now and then and watch where they are on the Tabelle, but I don't know they daily stuff, other than what American is playing for them. How did you start paying attention to them? They aren't exactly a household soccer brand outside of Bavaria.

Dan

PS--One night, just before practice, I was lacing up my cleats when I saw these "tree trunk" legs walk in front of me: Gerd Mueller. He was checking out the team, they were trying to lure him from his NASL team. He didn't come, but that was a cool moment. Almost unthinkable: an FCBer playing for 1860! But, lol, before I played on the youth team, I was a Bayern fan. Even had a sticker of their club on my Adidas bag . . . which I took every day to the club house.

Anyway, more than you probably needed to know. Welcome aboard!

Hey Matt, didn't see your comment until recently. Regarding jerseys, I haven't looked for them, other than on 1860's own website. I got mine for translating a wedding into German for the groom's parents. :) The US sites aren't offering them for sure. If you go directly to 1860's site, they have them there. Perhaps you can do an international purchase. This link will take you directly to their jerseys: http://www.tsv1860-shop.de/cgi/websale6.cgi?Ctx={ver%2f6%2fver}{st%2f3ea%2 fst}{cmd%2f0%2fcmd}{m%2fwebsale%2fm}{s%2ftsv1860%2fs}{l%2fDeutsch%2fl}{mi%2 f3-2701%2fmi}{sid%2ff057d970086d0b1f4a91280ee1e821df%2fsid}{md5%2f664b703e6 54831064f8adafefda091cd%2fmd5}

As for Beckenbauer, yeah, he was awesome. My dad's friend taught him English for the Berlitz language company. Just this Christmas he told me a couple stories: one, about going to Beckenbauer's house for a pre-game party (the Kaiser wasn't there, but his wife and friends where), and then have tickets for a UEFA game against Liverpool, directly behind the bench. Pretty cool. I never met him though.

What were you in Indonesia for?

An 1860 fan....don't see many of those in the US (I'm not one)