Interesting piece by Prof Per Urlaub.
Football in East Germany was visible till unification. Post-unification, there are hardly any players from East. Why?
What happened? Why – with the exception of Kroos – are none of the other players on German’s current national squad from the Eastern part of the country?The answer lies in economics.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East’s best players immediately left to join the clubs in the West that could pay them higher salaries. Meanwhile, like the economies of other former Soviet countries transitioning from communism to capitalism, the rapid reorganization of East Germany’s economy led to the collapse of entire industries.
East German clubs felt the pain. Not a single club from the East managed to establish a permanent presence in the Bundesliga, Germany’s top professional league. No longer receiving government funding – and unable to attract the steady flow…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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