This latest addition to the collection represents the grand
name of Dynamo Dresden, another of those to have resonated down the years.
Unless the name might have registered if & when
mentioned as being the club of a couple of the East German 1974 World Cup
squad, during the television coverage of the tournament, Dynamo would certainly
have appeared on the radar in the course of the 1976 – 77 season, when they
were drawn against Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, to be
eliminated by the eventual winners, & were a familiar name on the European
club competitions landscape during the 70s & 80s, resplendent in their
yellow & black kit, courtesy of the
consistent domestic form they showed, although it appears that tangible success
was frequently & systematically denied them through political machinations in
the former DDR – indeed, Dynamo Dresden’s makes a most intriguing history, not
least including giving birth, as the club was forced to do, to their
subsequently dodgily-dominant rivals Dynamo Berlin.
Whatever, the badge itself is another of those irresistible objects
of a certain vintage, Ostalgically redolent & aesthetically satisfying,
with that crest of the D upon its ruby red ground.
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