Go East, die Blauen!
Thursday, 08 November 07, 08:23 PM · Comments(0)
After patting myself on the back for a Blog well done, I was surfing around on the kicker.de site, and on the Arminia Bielefeld page, there is the following story (If you're a native German speaker, forgive any translation errors. My German is, well, nonexistent):
The Big World Tour
The Bundesliga has started a new offencive: During the week of Christmas more Bundesliga clubs will travel to the Far East, where there they will try to start marketing the league in Asian markets again. Currently Borussia Dortmund will travel to Indonesia, Arminia Bielefeld and Energie Cottbus to China, and a trip to Vietnam for Eintracht Frankfurt is also planned.
You can read the rest of the article here (link auf Deutsch)
The article goes from there to discuss the Bundesliga's thinking behind sending clubs to football-mad Asia during the Winter Break, as well as trips to the US to play MLS sides during the MLS offseason. Frankly, the prospect of 1 billion-plus Chinese folks becoming Arminia supporters via the charm of Ernst Middendrop and Artur Wichniarek is tempting, but I'd prefer them to come Stateside to play the Houston Dynamo. That way I could go see them and cheer them on by myself in the visitors' section. At the very least, it would be a great chance to improve Arminia's record in the US...
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