About Lost In Time Futbol

Hey there! I'm Samuele, an Italian guy with a lifelong passion for sports. Like any self-respecting Italian, football determines my mood week in and week out, but my interest for the game doesn't stop at my favourite football club.

This blog started as a personal project for two reasons: for fun, and to spread football stories that may not be known by many but deserve the spotlight. Lost In Time Futbol is meant to be a place where all sorts stories are collected in a sort of archive so that they're never forgotten. The project is obviously at its beginning but the will is to report anecdotes from all continents!

Apart from the archive project, a second goal is to build a respectful community whose goal is to preserve the immense tradition that the football world has gifted us, because as I like to think, football is an expression of every people on this planet, and every single club is a worthy messenger of its cities traditions and culture. For this reason the stories covered will talk about clubs that may not be Champions League regulars but have solid roots in their own city or region, because this connection between a football club and its community is what keeps the whole thing running.

I want to personally thank everyone who supports the blog, each and every time someone reads an article of mine it means the world to me.

You can contact me at lostintimefutbol@gmail.com or you can follow me on Instagram or Twitter/X!

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After the wall: what happened to East Germany’s football clubs?

Between 1949 and 1990 Germany suffered the political consequences of World War II. Its land was divided in occupied zones: some parts were annexed by Poland, while modern-day German territories were divided between the two post war blocs. The Western and Southern parts of the country were given to the Allies, while the Eastern part ended up under Soviet control. Even Berlin was split in half by its famous wall. Nowadays the country is reunited, but the effects of the divide are still extremely visible in terms of economy, politics, demographics, religion and the most important of all: football. Football in Eastern Germany A new top-flight football league was established in East Germany in 1949 , as separate sports competitions were created following the division of the country. The DDR-Oberliga, as it was called from 1958 onwards, was contested for most of its history by 14 teams. 12 different clubs won the league over this period, but the most successful were BFC Dynamo Berlin, w...

PSG is not the only football club in Paris

The city of Paris is home to more than 2.2 million people, and if we consider the whole Île-de-France area then the population rises to over 12.2 million. How is it possible that in a region that has more inhabitants than Belgium, Sweden and Portugal there's only one prominent football club? Paris Saint Germain may not have a rival to fight against for bragging rights over the French capital, at least for now, but football in the city does not stop at Ligue 1's dominant side. From thepeninsulaqatar.com Paris Saint-Germain and Paris FC First of all, we have to know how PSG even started, because unlike most of Europe's biggest clubs the French champions do not have a long history to look back at. In the summer 1969 a group of local businessmen wanted to create a club that could compete in the top tier and bring back a title that had not been won by a Paris club since Racing Club's 1936 triumph, so Paris FC was formed on August 1st, 1969. This new club attempted to merge...

Young Africans and Simba: rivalry, witchcraft and dominance over Tanzania

Football in Tanzania is a pretty simple environment: you're either a fan of Young Africans, or you're a fan of Simba. The two clubs have shared 47 of the 61 Premier League titles awarded since the independence of Tanzania, and to the same extent they also share the football fans over the country and even in areas across the borders: both clubs have fans all over Eastern Africa. Simba defenders tackle a Young Africans player [thecitizen.co.tz] Young Africans, who are more commonly just called Yanga by their fans, were formed in 1935 by Dar es Salaam residents who decided to form their own football club and compete in a league full of non-African clubs. Ever since its birth, Yanga has been a symbol of the anti-colonial movement, becoming associated with Tanganyikan nationalists and freedom fighters. The club was so representative that a political party (Tanganyika African National Union, TANU) even adopted their traditional yellow and green as their own colours. At some point i...

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