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My home-town soccer club - Alemannia Aachen - has made a dream for me come true: They will be playing in the German premier league 1. Bundesliga next year. Congratulations!!

No matter how much I travel the world my heart belongs to my home-town Aachen. This town and its original Öcher Minsche represent working class simplicity, loyalty, and toughness paired with the joyfulness of the rheinische Frohnatur. And nothing shows the true Aachen spirit like it´s soccer team, Alemannia Aachen. Simple, loyal, hard-working players with a great sense of humor.

This describes the team as well as their diehard fans. Even though we have been scrounging the lower leagues of soccer for years now, the teams has always fought to its limits, and the fans have gone through thick and thin with them like no other. The bond between fans and team cannot be broken, we stand behind our team forever.

The Tivoli stadium - known as the witches cauldron (Hexenkessel) - is has consistently attracted the most fans in any second-league team, and is known to be one of the toughest arena to play in because of the huge fan support. This year, with a measly budget of 8 Million Euro, a lot of team spirt, and the superior fan support, the Alemannia finally - after 37 years - managed to fight their way up to the premiere soccer league in Germany, the 1. Bundesliga, again.

As a die-hart fan Mathias and I want to congratulate the team to this heroic archievment!! I am so proud it brings tears to my eyes. I cannot believe that I am able to witness this in my lifetime. Thank you Alemannia.