The Prussians are comingFounded in 1900, the club's name comes from the Latin version of the word for Prussia – the state in which the city of Monchengladbach then lay. They are still nicknamed the Prussians (die Borussen) in some quarters. When Prussia was broken up after World War I, it became part of Germany and Borussia featured in the 1920 German championship – the first contested after the war – which was then a knockout tournament.The first big breakthroughAfter some lean years, Mönchengladbach returned to the top division of the complicated Oberliga structure in 1950, and while they yo-yoed between the upper tiers for a ...