FC LEGO 07 Magdeburg was founded in Season 8 when the LEGO Group decided to start a marketing campaign in Vietnam. Using the modern RCX technology, the football manager robot “Bertram the Robot” was built. The prototype for Bertram was a robot of the same name which was designed in the German city Magdeburg. It called LEGO Group’s attention while participating in the World Festival of a LEGO robotic competition in year 2007. To emphasise the fact that the team’s roots are in Magdeburg, the team was named 1. FC Lego 07 Magdeburg, even though it was actually playing in Vietnam. But at first the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) refused to recognise the team as Magdeburg because it was not a Vietnamese city. Therefore Bertram the Robot had to get the Vietnamese citizenship in order to purchas