TSG 1899 Hoffenheim guide - history, emblem
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Full Name: Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim Official Website: achtzehn99.de Description:18 years after software magnate Dietmar Hopp renewed his involvement in his childhood club with a famous phone call, 1899 Hoffenheim find themselves rubbing shoulders with Germany's football giants. Hoffenheim is a suburb of Sinsheim, a city in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district of Baden-Württemberg state in southwestern Germany. Hopp had played for the club as a boy and in 1990, with Deutsche Marks coming out of his ear and the club mired in 7th division obscurity, he placed a call to the club president. His words - "Things can't go on this way. I want to help" - have become legend and 1899 Hoffenheim have gone from strength to strength ever since, the culmination being promotion to the Bundesliga for the 2008-09 season.
Originally founded on July 1, 1899 as Turnverein Hoffenheim, a gymnastics club, they merged with fellow village side Fussbalverein Hoffenheim in 1945 and adopted the name Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim - Gymnastics and Sports Club 1899 Hoffenheim.The club was an obscure amateur village club with activites in multiple sports and at all ages and, as mentioned, had the blind luck of seeing a future billionaire spend a few years of his adolescence there. After a series of promotions a proper stadium was built with Hopp's backing. Unsurprisingly named the Dietmar-Hopp-Stadium, its capacity of 6500 is double that of the village's entire population. But after just a few years 1899 Hoffenheim have outgrown it. At the moment 1899 are playing in the Carl-Benz-Stadion of nearby Waldof Mannheim and will move into another newly-built stadium, the Rhein-Neckar-Arena being built in Sinsheim.
The club had traditionally been known by the short name TSG Hoffenheim until a formal switch to 1899 Hoffenheim in 2007. The club's nickname "Hoffe" is simply a shortening of the village and the emblem is a basic shield split diagonally into blue and white halves. Carl-Benz-Stadion:
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