Nurnberg: The SpVgg Greuther Fürth is by far the 1. FCN's biggest and longest standing local rival, going back to the early days of German football when, at times, those two clubs dominated the national championship. This derby is furthermore the oldest one in the history of German footbal and with the legendary number of 253 official matches the most played derby in Germany. The best example for the deep aversion between the two clubs is a story out of the year 1921. When the German national team in a match against the Netherlands in Amsterdam consisted only of players from Nuremberg and Fürth. The players of the both teams travelled, it's true, in the same train, but the hatred among each other made the players from Nuremberg travel in the first waggon and the players from Fürth in the last waggon. In the middle of the train sat Georg B. Blascke, the manager: Sad and lonely. In the match scored a player from Fürth the 1:0. But only the players from Fürth gratulated him. The players from Nuremberg turned their backs on him. Another nice story of this time is the story of Hans Sutor, a former player from the SpVgg Fürth, who was forced to leave the team because of his marriage with a woman from Nuremberg. After this he played for the 1. FC Nuremberg and won three national championships.[3] Both clubs played together in the 2nd Bundesliga in 2008–09.On Bavarian scale, the games against FC Bayern Munich are the biggest events of the year, the two clubs being the most successful sides in the state.
Kaiserslautern: On 20 May 2007, the club announced the Norwegian manager Kjetil Rekdal, formerly with Belgian side Lierse, as their new head coach. Rekdal took over the reins on 1 July. Due to very bad results (the club being in 16th place in the standings with only three wins in 19 games), Rekdal was sacked and replaced by Milan Šašić in February 2008. In April 2008, the club hired Stefan Kuntz as Chairman, and with new leadership at the helm, managed to save themselves from relegation to the new 3. Liga with a win over already promoted 1. FC Köln on the final day of the 2007–08 season.
Milan Sasic lasted almost the entire 2008–09 season but was dismissed on 4 May 2009 after run of poor results in the in the second half of the season and three days after a 1–5 defeat by Hansa Rostock. Alois Schwartz was named interim coach and he managed the club to a seventh place finish on the season. The club eventually hired Marco Kurz as Head Coach.
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Surely Kaiserslautern will have a hard time to win over Nurnberg here.. they must have special tactics to goal and win..
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