Contributed by: Aaron Richard Wednesday, June 01 2005 @ 12:38 am ACST
The German city of Cologne will this weekend host its first match of Australian Football, with the Düsseldorf Lions[*1] moving their home match against the Frankfurt Redbacks[*2] to the nearby city for demonstration purposes.
About half an hour's drive south of Düsseldorf, Cologne (Köln in German) has had rumblings of an Australian Football team for a few years, with a number of the Düsseldorf Lions hailing from the nearby city. There has been suggestions that Cologne could have a stand-alone team, or at the least that a metro-style league could be created feeding into the Lions, featuring squads from Cologne, Bonn, Essen or other nearby cities where players come to play for the Lions - but as yet there have not been any firm confirmation of this.
The game will be played at 2.00pm, June the 4th at the Grüngürtel am Colonius, part of a green belt of parks built along the location of Cologne's medieval fortifications.
With similar experiments in the US succesfully seeding teams in a 'neutral' city, the outcome will be of interest to all in the German Aussie Rules scene.
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