Hertha Berlin Football club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92 taking its name from a river steamship called <<Nerthus>> a Teutonic fertility goddess. The present name Hertha was an aberation of this mythological diety.
Would that this diety could visit them today and provide some fertility charms that produce goals and win games!
Hertha today, at this writing, currently bottom of the Bundesliga after eight successive league defeats and is at least showing consistency by following this losing streak into Europe in its qualifying games for the Europa League.
An original founding member of the Bundesliga in Leipzig in 1900, Hertha has a long history as Berlin’s most popular team. In the inter-war years Hertha emerged as Germany’s second most successful team.
However post war years were not terribly brilliant; some match-fixing scandals, relegation to the Amateurliga, various failed amalgamations with other clubs, continual financial woes and a couple of bankruptcies. In fairness to the club, many of the problems were the result of political machinations from West Germany who wanted to have a proffessional team in <<their>> Berlin at all costs, to counter the East Germans.
The team was almost relegated again in the 2003-04 season, but rebounded and finished 4th the following season. In recent years Hertha has invested in a youth football academy, which has produced several players with Bundesliga potential.
Even if they may not play the most attractive football in Germany today its always worth while to take in a game just to see the stadium. Hertha has its home in the historic [hysteric if its 1936] Berlin Olympiastadion. The facility has a capacity of 76,243, making it the second-largest stadium in Germany after Borussia Dortmund‘s Westfalenstadion and hosted the final of the 2006 World Cup.
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Hi all Hertha funs what is up, are all ready for 011-012 sesson, am one the hertha berlin fun in South Sudan, Malakal town, and my dream is see my favorite hertha win the bundes liga this year. and may be to join the Club academy the coming future.