Ballack, who should make his official debut for Chelsea in the FA Community Shield against Liverpool tomorrow at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, is Germany's best footballer, but he also represents a dead state, the German Democratic Republic. That may be why Chelsea signed him.
Simon Kuper explains why Michael Ballack remains the most tangible benefit that reunification has brought to many west Germans >>
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