Fan Activities Roundup

I am cur­rently work­ing on another story so in the mean­time I give you a few odds and ends about some of the things that Fans and Teams have done or are work­ing on.

Win­ners of the BVB Fan Tournament

 Borus­sia Dort­mund Fan Pro­jekt hosts Fan Club Tournament

Borus­sia Dort­mund tra­di­tion con­tin­ued on Car­ni­val Sun­day when at 10 AM 40 BVB-Fanclubteams from all over Ger­many met to play for the Cham­pion of the Brinkhoff‘s No.1 Cup.

Besides the over 400 Play­ers, many spec­ta­tors and promi­nent guests from the BVB, the Dort­mund leg­ends Siggi Held and Lars Ricken were in atten­dance as well as the Fan­beauf­tragten (Fan Coor­di­na­tors) Jens Volke and Sebas­t­ian Walleit. The tour­na­ment was played on Sun­day, 22 Feb­ru­ary at the Schul– und Sportzen­trum Dortmund-Brackel Oester­straße, Hallen I und II. One of the favorites “Die Abhängi­gen” from Herdecke was sur­prised early on by the Borussen­fans Herne but the cur­rent Südtribü­nen­meis­ter “Borus­sia For­ever Lüd­ing­hausen” man­aged to avoid an upset in the semi final after a shoot out win against GSG 09. The sec­ond semi final saw the sur­prise teams of the tour­na­ment, Fan­club Inter­na­tional and “Kasche and Friends” go against each other. Matthias Kart­ner and his team have par­tic­i­pated in Fan­club tour­na­ments since 1995 (!) and most often they did not make it out of the open­ing rounds. This was their time as they not only beat “Inter­na­tional” but also the heavy favorite from Lüd­ing­hausen in the final.
Besides the brag­ging rights and the actual tro­phy the win­ning team will also be offi­cially rec­og­nized at a Bun­desliga game at the SIGNAL IDUNA PARK. The Fan Pro­jekt Dort­mund was very sat­is­fied with the 17th Edi­tion of the tour­na­ment and plans are already under­way for next year’s edition.

Bayer Leverkusen-Fans to run Half Marathon

Sta­mina is required of Bayer Lev­erkusen Fans. After the suc­cess of the last two years the Fan­pro­jekt Lev­erkusen is call­ing on all Bayer 04-Fans to pre­pare for the “Lev­erkusener Halb­marathon” on 7 June 2009. Train­ing will begin on Tues­day, 3 March at 6 PM.

“Our train­ing has become some­what of a tra­di­tion. We have Fans among all age groups that are par­tic­i­pat­ing” said Fan­pro­jek­tleader Ste­fan Thomé. “Some of our par­tic­i­pat­ing Fans in the Lev­erkusen Half Marathon last year also took part in the Cologne Marathon”.

VfB Stuttgart Ser­dar Tasci vis­ited Kick Off Camp

Young Fans of VfB Stuttgart, that also like to play the game, used their Fasching vaca­tion to par­tic­i­pate in two Kick-Off-Camps orga­nized by the VfB-Fußballschule. Both of the camps were indoors with per­fect field con­di­tions and nice tem­per­a­tures at the Soc­cer Olymp Fell­bach (just out­side of Stuttgart).

Among the High­lights in the pro­gram was a visit from VfB Defender Ser­dar Tasci on Sun­day the 22nd Feb­ru­ary, exclu­sively for the par­tic­i­pants of the 1st Kick-Off-Camp. He was avail­able for ques­tions and auto­graphs and enjoyed spend­ing time with the young­sters. The par­tic­i­pants of the sec­ond Camp in Fell­bach were vis­ited by “Frit­zle” (the VfB Mascot).

Schalke 04 “Catwea­zle” auc­tions off leg­endary Drum

Among Schalke Fans every­one knows him: “Catwea­zle”, for 28 years he and his Drum were always found in the Nord­kurve of the Park­sta­dion. Catwea­zle is now sup­port­ing the char­ity Gelsenkirch­ener Tafel e.V. and will auc­tion of his Drum and Wig to raise money for them. The auc­tion will also be sup­ported by the Schalker Fan-Initiative e.V.

The auc­tion began on 20 Feb­ru­ary at 19.04 PM on eBay. The open­ing bid was also fixed at 19,04 Euro and the auc­tion will run for 10 days. The win­ning bid­der can pick up the Drum, Drum Sticks and Wig at the Fan-Shop of the Schalker Fan-Initiative e.V. after pay­ing in cash. “Catwea­zle” was first infected with the Schalke virus in 1958 when he vis­ited Han­nover to see Schalke win their last Ger­man title. Upon return­ing he helped paint the Train sta­tion Blue and White and spent some time as a guest of the Polizei. The only vaca­tions he has ever taken were to sup­port Schalke on the road.

Werder Bre­men Ex Player Wyn­ton Rufer for “100% Werder Worldwide”

Werder Bre­men will always be Inter­na­tional is the mes­sage that was announced on the 13th of Feb­ru­ary from the Ostkurve in the Weser-Stadion. The Green and Whites offi­cially launched their social project “100% Werder World­wide”, an expan­sion of the suc­cess­ful project started in 2002 “100 Schulen — 100 Vere­ine” (100 Schools – 100 Teams) on all Continents.

“We will incor­po­rate our already exist­ing con­tacts in over 20 coun­tries with this new project and want to expand to cre­ate more part­ner­ships” said Klaus-Dieter Fis­cher, Pres­i­dent and Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of the SV “Werder” v. 1899 e.V. who along with unveil­ing the new project also pre­sented the new patron for “100% Werder World­wide” the Ex Bre­men Player and for­mer New Zealand Inter­na­tional Wyn­ton Rufer.

MSV Duis­burg with spe­cial pric­ing for Youth Teams

MSV Duis­burg is offer­ing spe­cial pric­ing for all regional Youth teams for the return legs of the 2008/2009 Sea­son in the MSV-Arena.

From the youngest Bam­bini to the A-Jugend all Youth team play­ers (and one Chap­er­one per 4 play­ers) can attend a game in the MSV-Arena for only 5 Euros per game.

Ale­man­nia Aachen will have a spe­cial jer­sey for Fans again

The last game at the Tivoli on 24 May will have Ale­man­nia Aachen wear­ing a Spe­cial jer­sey on the field. Fans that order the jer­sey by 16 March will also have their name printed on the jer­sey. The Jer­sey will be in the lay­out of the 1969 Kit, the year Ale­man­nia came in sec­ond place in the Bun­desliga, and will be yel­low with one Black stripe. DFL Rules allow for teams to wear a spe­cial Jer­sey for one game a year and some teams have had some inter­est­ing vari­a­tions on that theme.