Regionalliga Nordost – Lokomotive Leipzig: Spark of gods from Probstheida

Small sensation in the regional league northeast. The Leipzig locomotive athletes stumbled across the tiny Hertha from Zehlendorf on Easter Sunday. There are still four game days. The lead over Halleschen FC is still seven points. The cat is not in the sack that does not suck drops to the displeasure of all locomotive fans. No 1000 people traveled to Berlin to get away from Berlin, as if they had guessed that a fiasco may be threatened in the final sprint.

If in doubt for doubts and for bitterness, Tocotronic sing so nicely about defeats, because a small god spark is lurking in the defeat. Although, to speak to Kombattant with Beethoven, every fan wants to be the fan brother and sister where your gentle wing is. Your hope is your whole heart, our should be: the promotion to the 3rd Bundesliga. Until then, it is important for the Loksche to win as possible.

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Frank Willmann looks at football between Leipzig, Łódź and Ljubljana.

I also keep my fingers crossed for the blue -yellow sports men from Probstheida. As a master, they would always deserve to do one or more rounds in the third. The third division, the dream of all suspended East German clubs in the Regionalliga Northeast, which should actually be called Regionalliga Ost.

On April 22, 1987, Lok Leipzig defeated in front of 100,000 spectators in the Leipzig central stadium Girondin Bordeaux in the semi -finals of the cup winner in the penalty shootout. At the time, I enjoyed my life in West Berlin, but like so many East Germans, I crouched the long April evening in front of the telly to see Leipzig’s goalkeeper René Müller in the football sky. He held two penalty and then put the decisive 911 into the left upper corner. A goal for eternity for Müller and Lok. Thirty -eight years later on April 22, 2025 (6.30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Volkshochschule Leipzig), the documentary “Prima, René!” Premiere. May the semi-final victory not remain the last big moment in the locomotive history.

If not everything goes completely wrong, the next big thing for Lok will be the promotion relegation in May against TSV Havelsee. If locomotive is made at home, the second leg takes place in the Lower Saxony Stadium in Hanover. At home in front of a sold -out backdrop and in Hanover accompanied by thousands of followers, Lok Putative has two cartilages in front of their nose in terms of atmosphere. Whether it will be enough, whether locomotive will reach the dream destination, possibly again a goalkeeper to the football hero, or a small defender who makes it clear to Leipzig’s promotion desire in the last minute of stoppage time? We do not know and can indulge in two murderously exciting games. It will be a nasty drama in any case because only one team will climb up.

Lok remains a small consolation in the event of defeat: In the regional league, seven fallen angels of the GDR top football are waiting in the regional league next season. Hallescher FC, Carl Zeiss Jena, FSV Zwickau, BFC Dynamo, Chemistry Leipzig, Red Weiß Erfurt, Chemnitzer FC. Don’t have to stay that way forever. Or what do you think?