After the breakdown of talks between the DFB, the DFL and the fan scenes in Germany, to prepare followers and associations in an uncomfortable season. The trust is destroyed, the protests would be loud.
The technician had just started the cameras in the interior of the Borussia-Park to dismantle, as the still in the stadium, the remaining Fans took again a deep breath, “fuck DFB” sang. Minutes of the Protestruf think through the Arena. Not only in Mönchengladbach, these Calls were heard in nearly every stadium was on 1. Round of the season is protesting verbally. “You will also hear in this season of us”, had announced the merger of the fanclubs in Germany last week in a Statement. Previously, the fan representatives had canceled the talks with the DFL and the DFB, after nearly a year.
“There was hope that a dialogue between Fans, DFB and DFL, the also leads to results, the whole scenes is very pleased and not-so-disconsolate look like now,” criticized Sig a tent, a spokesman for the organization “ProFans” in the DW-Interview the crash, and adds: “Later, the impression is that the associations to lead the conversation only to calm the scene, but did not come with the firm intention of good results to be compressed.”
The introduction of the Monday matches in the 3. League
A trigger for the termination of the discussions, the introduction of the Monday games in the 3 was. League, the tent. “In a Meeting a few days earlier, with supporters’ representatives and the tips of the associations, this topic has not been named at all. This was seen in the fanbase as a great breach of trust, and as a corresponding step backward.”
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DFL managing Director Christian Seifert, responded and referred to the approval of the majority of the clubs in the 3. League, as far as the introduction of the Monday games. “It is also a not quite properly understood, dialogue is understanding, if you criticized the DFB for the fact that he Monday games in the 3. League introduces the support of 19 of the 20 clubs explicitly”, so Seifert.
To each other is no longer spoken now. A culture of open dialogue had not already been possible, says Bernd Sautter, speaker of the Initiative “FC PlayFair”, which is committed to the preservation of fan culture, in the DW-Interview. “Both sides have drawn from the beginning by the red lines. On the subject of pyrotechnics, the associations were willing to talk, the same applies on the opposite side for the theme of Monday’s games,” explains Sautter. “The abortion of the dialogue was not a Surprise.”
DFB will fail in Russia
It’s bubbling at the base, and for quite a time. Already in the last season, Fans had loudly their displeasure about the development, and the increasing commercialization of German football. Neon sign, half-time shows, special sponsors for corners, Yellow and Red cards and substitutions have become the norm in German stadiums and the tastes of the most followers.
The sporting, but also technical marketing Disaster of the German national team at the world Championships in Russia this summer. Especially the campaign #ZSMMN and also the term “The team” and stand in the centre of the criticism. “I have a proposal of our President (Reinhard Grindel, Anm. d. editorial) was adopted to analyze the concept of ‘The team’ and to question, after I have spoken with various stakeholders”, said DFB-Manager Oliver Bierhoff this week, rejected the criticism of the over commercialization of the national team.
Sautter: “youth culture is an anarchic bears cal Element in”
These Marketing campaigns are likely to be a reason for the increasing alienation of the DFB-Elf of their own Fans. Not sold-out stadiums for Games of Ex-world champion was already in the past few months are not uncommon. Something similar could now happen to the League. The düsseldorf stadium was not on the first round, although the club was promoted after five years in the League.
Empty seats at a League game – perhaps we will have to get used to it
Euphoria? Wrong! Even more free places were to be seen in Berlin’s Olympic stadium for the season opener. Here, the statistician only recorded a capacity utilisation of 72 per cent (source: statistika.com). Overall, less spectators in the stadiums. Just a Trend? A comparison shows that the utilization has decreased in the past five years by nearly three percent.
“Fan culture and the associated visit to the stadium is through the whole commercial so attractive. Since we are talking particularly of the young target group,” says Sautter. “Fan culture, which is a ultra culture is a kind of youth culture. And any youth culture, an anarchic Element. It rises with a certain Habitus against the Establishment and get them out of the DFB and the DFL never, even if you give it a try. One has to be sensitive, and do not understand the associations,” says Sautter.
Come back to the Hooligans?
How far the commercialisation of football is currently the Primera Division in Spain. In this season for the first Time will take place in a regular League game on American or canadian soil. The agreement is valid for the next 15 years – a Horror-imagination of the Fans becomes a reality. “If we look abroad, it is often not better, but worse than here with us,” says tent. The Bundesliga have to be a big Plus compared to some of the foreign leagues. Still, the stadiums are usually full, and at least for the Top Teams such as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund or Schalke 04 is almost always sold out. A plus point is that the DFL-responsible for go abroad on a promotional tour.
There will be more Pyrochtechnik in stages?
The breakdown of the talks could change this picture but in the future. “It is possible that the active Fans largely back and we only have a ‘Mitklatsch audience’ in a stadium and this is a pretty sterile atmosphere”, the tent is outlined. “But it is also possible that the story tilts in a different direction, and that the Hooligans will be back stronger. This could happen if the people pull back, not to worry currently that it is so.”
Pyrotechnics and stadium bans
FC-PlayFair-speaker Sautter believes in a chaotic season that the Fans and the leaders of the DFB and DFL. “The result of the broken dialogue, will be an unbridled commercialization. The associations will pay no more attention to the Fans – and that can only be bad”, says the Fan of the VfB Stuttgart. “On the other hand, it will certainly be a organized Protest in the Form of banners or posters. From the organized Protest, but this could be a wild Protest, and then we will see again, things you don’t want to see associations and many other viewers: It will be the increasing use of pyrotechnics. Also a stadium ban be re-imposed, the Situation will be re-escalate significantly.”
The relationship is not so tense as for a long time. Further discussions between DFL, DFB and the fan base representatives, it is according to ProFans-speaker tent in the near future. “In many other countries, the associations would like it very much, with the Fans, the Ultras, to come into the conversation,” says tent. “It is particularly regrettable that our associations recognize the value of the willingness to talk.” The next League games will now show in what way the “curves” to Express their displeasure.