Quiet here...

[Yang]

So the all deciding question is how did the match end?

[Yang]

Well don´t be afraid of foreign language googling. Thats how i stumbled across the picture anyway.

Some sons of the city where the host team originated became professional soccerplayers. Yet probably the most famous person the city brought up became an admiral in an country overseas with the distinction of being the first person with a navy background achieving the highest military post there. He held that post till his death caused by an accident.

Here is the city in question while celebrating some festival in october:

[Yang]

Next hint before i go to bed.

[TBR]

OK, you're aiming for Blumenau and Admiral Zimmermann (who also bears the distinction to be the Bundeswehrs highest ranked soldier to die from injuries sustained on duty) but I can't find anything about a Blumenau-kaiserliche Marine (or Reichsmarine) soccer game which I presume is what you allude to. Must have been on one of the "show the flag" middie training cruises before WWI or in the nineteen-twenties.

[Yang]

Quite right, it should become easy if you know the ship which can be backtracked from the cap of the guy on the right. Sure you can´t read the letters but the spaces between the words should be a pretty good hint. Now all thats left is to google/bing specifically in the country blumenau is situated.

[Brommer]

Turnverein Blumenau vs. Von der Tann. The match ended 2-5. I first hesitated before coming out of lurking for this, since I've no idea what question to ask next. So maybe someone else wants to take over.

[Yang]

Bravo for solving it . The match was 1912 when the SMS Von der Tann was on her South America cruise. I wonder how they got to Blumenau in the first place, since its quite a bit away from the coast. I guess they went up the river with a couple of VdTs cutters?

Anyway just ask a question, i´d be interested in what kind of question someone with a spanish background would come up with.

[Brommer]

The only thing I could find out from the webpages I googled for (I found this out by following your hint) was that Von der Tann anchored in a port called Itajaí.

Sorry that I can't come up with a question typical for someone Spanish. I'm German, just happen to work in Spain at the moment. But I'll just pretend and ask:

The ship I show here was the first of its kind to do what?

[kotori87]

I can't see the flag very well, but I'm assuming based on the way you worded the question that it's Spanish, possibly from the Spanish-American War. It looks like an un-protected cruiser, but I can't tell which one. All the ones I've found have twin smokestacks. Maybe this mystery ship was the first cruiser to have only 1 smokestack?

I'll keep looking, but I'm running out of ideas.

[Brommer]

Ok, so I'll try to give some hints without revealing everything. It indeed is a Spanish ship. It was still around during the Spanish-American war, but was under reconstruction a the time (to become a coast defence ship) and couldn't take part. It took part in an earlier war though. It was also the first Spanish ship with electric light.