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WAY OF LIFE
The German Olympic Sports Confederation
The Bundesliga, the top-flight league in
is an umbrella organisation for German
German football, is the shining light in
sport and sees itself as Germany’s largest
German sport. Internationally it is regard-
civic group. It promotes top-class and grass-
ed as one of the strongest leagues. In
roots sport. More than 20,000 of the 91,000
the 2014-5 season, the 306 matches played
sports clubs it represents were founded after
between t