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<blockquote data-quote="Car" data-source="post: 729428" data-attributes="member: 72474"><p>Both sports are pro sports, if I'm not mistaken, I know handball definitely is. With its popularity in Germany, France and the Nordics among others, you'd think handball would offer more than that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not too sure either. Rugby came here earlier than to France, after all. I read somewhere that rugby simply had a harder time after the World Wars since it's easier to find 2x11 than 2x15 players. When soccer first came here as part of the so-called "English sports", it also had a hard time with the attitudes at the time, gymnastics was seen as a "proper" sport for Germans. Some say the nazis didn't like rugby for some reason, but they definitely used soccer for their propaganda, that hurt the game a lot. Rugby also didn't make it into schools here, unlike in other countries.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, it certainly is a problem that you're unlikely to find rugby outside of Heidelberg and Hannover (plus maybe Berlin). Both cities historically had strong ties to the UK (albeit for different reasons) and in both cities you can find rugby without searching for it, but outside of these two, it's different. Lack of regular TV coverage doesn't help either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Car, post: 729428, member: 72474"] Both sports are pro sports, if I'm not mistaken, I know handball definitely is. With its popularity in Germany, France and the Nordics among others, you'd think handball would offer more than that. I'm not too sure either. Rugby came here earlier than to France, after all. I read somewhere that rugby simply had a harder time after the World Wars since it's easier to find 2x11 than 2x15 players. When soccer first came here as part of the so-called "English sports", it also had a hard time with the attitudes at the time, gymnastics was seen as a "proper" sport for Germans. Some say the nazis didn't like rugby for some reason, but they definitely used soccer for their propaganda, that hurt the game a lot. Rugby also didn't make it into schools here, unlike in other countries. Nowadays, it certainly is a problem that you're unlikely to find rugby outside of Heidelberg and Hannover (plus maybe Berlin). Both cities historically had strong ties to the UK (albeit for different reasons) and in both cities you can find rugby without searching for it, but outside of these two, it's different. Lack of regular TV coverage doesn't help either. [/QUOTE]
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