Herzogenaurach Herzogenaurach. Even the town's two football clubs were divided by the Adidas/Puma split: ASV Herzogenaurach club was supported by Adidas, while FC Herzogenaurach endorsed Puma's footwear. Both clubs still play at amateur level. The Argentina national football team resided in Herzogenaurach for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Néstor De la Torre, Mexico's Director of National Teams, said the Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) would gather for 12 days in the city, its last stop before heading to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. Herzogenaurach was the location of a military airfield beginning in the 1930s. The
High-speed rail in Germany Maglev Train, a Transrapid technology based maglev built in collaboration with Siemens, Germany, has been operational since March 2004. Part of these routes are new constructions that run along or close to the existing, or previous, route: Completely new construction projects: High-speed rail in Germany Construction of the first high-speed rail in Germany began shortly after that of the French LGVs ("lignes à grande vitesse", high-speed lines). However, legal battles caused significant delays, so that the German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains were deployed ten years after the TGV network was established. The first regularly scheduled ICE trains ran on 2 June