| badgerboy |
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| 19/04/2007 11:07 |
Re: The Big Issue 2
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So, this is 'officially' the most successful B team ever. But if someone is afraid that something like that could happen again, we only have to remember that in all these years it has happened only once.
Funnily enough this year both Salzburg & Salzburg Amateurs reached the Austrian Cup semi-finals - but less funnily (for Salzburg fans anyway) they both lost.
And - more obscurely - Ruzomberok's "B" team are in the Slovakian Cup Semi-Finals.
I'm not quite sure what UEFA's rule is on such things these days. Presumably they don't allow two of the same team into the same competition (ownership rules) but one in the CL & one in the UEFA Cup? Or if the "B" team qualifies for Europe can the first team take their place?
There's another "situation" to keep an eye on in Turkey. Two teams from the city of Kayseri - but unlike most "normal" local rivals these ones seem to "love" each other. They already swapped identities once (when the supposedly secondary club Erciyesspor got promoted to the Turkish Superliga). Now - although the "new" Erciyesspor are languishing in the relegation zone while Kayserispor are vieing for a European spot through the league the secondary team are also Cup semi-finalists - and won the first leg against Trabzonspor 1-0 away. If they get to the final AND stay up then I suspect some more identity-switching (to allow the "main" club to play in Europe) isn't out of the question...
UEFA article on the friendship between the two teams.