like people don't love soccer here but there are reasons it's not seen as a football city let's start with those. really has a historical feature that sets it apart from just about every city in the world even today all this is played out in the shadow of the berlin wall. it's not just the dark rooms that make berlin special few places on earth have witnessed such a time or 2 us passports the city and it's this history that continues to define. the city was smack in the center of the cold war germany was split between east and west while the capital was divided as well roughly 40 years of division shape today's football landscape. passion for football is built on rivalries duking it out with hated neighbors not easy to do when there's literally a wall cutting your city and have. your own fan and writer in go who knows all about this. cup in the west so we're going to watch the clock in the east so this