Kevin Carroll
Changemakers Featured Commentator
Sport for a Better World Competition
Fantastic initiative that is a very topical & prominent throughout Europe. I too am a avid follower of the “beautiful game”, Heiko and I truly believe that honoring teams and players for their skill and talent should be the focus – not a players ethnicity or a team’s locale. hae you had the opportunity to discuss your effort with the people from FARE (Football against Racism in Europe)? It seems like you would have a natural connection and alliance with them. Also, Mel Young from the Homeless World Cup may be able to assist you in thinking about how to organize your tourney to allow for more participation and to gain more support and involvement from governing/city officials – he’s had tremendous success in a short amount of time with his global socially focused soccer/football tourney.
Although you are tackling a huge issue within the big business of soccer/football your efforts are vital to increasing tolerance and understanding of others. What you are doing will make a BIG difference in the game!
Continued success...
I became aware of the vocal power of the St Pauli fans at the 3rd division game in Erfurt earlier this year when St Pauli all but guaranteed their promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. The singing of You'll Never Walk Alone was sensational - but not as good as at Anfield!
Please see my video from that day (ps I have more if you are interested) at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxYJ2SSNVUM
There is much to be done in Germany and throughout Europe, as you point out. Are you working with FARE (football against racism in Europe)? Couldn't you contact UEFA? They would be able to help you get the message out and to gain that valuable added funding.
We organised football against racism events in Erfurt during the 2006 World Cup. So I'd be interested to know if there are respresentatives from clubs in the former East of Germany at your events? Rot Weiss Erfurt for example?
I know that a group of masters students at the University in Erfurt want to develop an anti-racism campaign with Rot Weiß Erfurt. Would you be willing ot be contacted by them? Maybe this could be a good partnership.
St. Pauli fans generally behave well, but there are also examples of extreme behaviour from them. Do you act as well to deal with violent / extremist fans within the St. Pauli fan group?
Cheers,
Andrew Aris
Lecturer University of Erfurt
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Spirit of Football - football's equivalent to the Olympic Torch
http://www.spiritoffootball.com http://www.spiritoffootball.com
it´s great to see the "buccaneers of the league" and the nightmare of Bayern Munich on changemakers, because I know that´s what you are - changemakers. As a longtime fan and guest at Millerntor stadium I have experienced first hand how St.Pauli fans made me feel at home, without a trace of the homophobic and racist chants one can come across at other football events. I´d love to hear more about what actions the groups in your network are taking besides the actual tournament. Do they work with other interest groups or actively change behavior in the stadiums?
*singing* We love Sankt Pauli, we do...
Jasper Nicolaisen
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Kevin Carroll
Changemakers Featured Commentator
Sport for a Better World Competition
Fantastic initiative that is a very topical & prominent throughout Europe. I too am a avid follower of the “beautiful game”, Heiko and I truly believe that honoring teams and players for their skill and talent should be the focus – not a players ethnicity or a team’s locale. hae you had the opportunity to discuss your effort with the people from FARE (Football against Racism in Europe)? It seems like you would have a natural connection and alliance with them. Also, Mel Young from the Homeless World Cup may be able to assist you in thinking about how to organize your tourney to allow for more participation and to gain more support and involvement from governing/city officials – he’s had tremendous success in a short amount of time with his global socially focused soccer/football tourney.
Although you are tackling a huge issue within the big business of soccer/football your efforts are vital to increasing tolerance and understanding of others. What you are doing will make a BIG difference in the game!
Continued success...
Fantastic project.
I became aware of the vocal power of the St Pauli fans at the 3rd division game in Erfurt earlier this year when St Pauli all but guaranteed their promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. The singing of You'll Never Walk Alone was sensational - but not as good as at Anfield!
Please see my video from that day (ps I have more if you are interested) at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxYJ2SSNVUM
There is much to be done in Germany and throughout Europe, as you point out. Are you working with FARE (football against racism in Europe)? Couldn't you contact UEFA? They would be able to help you get the message out and to gain that valuable added funding.
We organised football against racism events in Erfurt during the 2006 World Cup. So I'd be interested to know if there are respresentatives from clubs in the former East of Germany at your events? Rot Weiss Erfurt for example?
I know that a group of masters students at the University in Erfurt want to develop an anti-racism campaign with Rot Weiß Erfurt. Would you be willing ot be contacted by them? Maybe this could be a good partnership.
St. Pauli fans generally behave well, but there are also examples of extreme behaviour from them. Do you act as well to deal with violent / extremist fans within the St. Pauli fan group?
Cheers,
Andrew Aris
Lecturer University of Erfurt
----
Spirit of Football - football's equivalent to the Olympic Torch
http://www.spiritoffootball.com
http://www.spiritoffootball.com
Moin moin,
it´s great to see the "buccaneers of the league" and the nightmare of Bayern Munich on changemakers, because I know that´s what you are - changemakers. As a longtime fan and guest at Millerntor stadium I have experienced first hand how St.Pauli fans made me feel at home, without a trace of the homophobic and racist chants one can come across at other football events. I´d love to hear more about what actions the groups in your network are taking besides the actual tournament. Do they work with other interest groups or actively change behavior in the stadiums?
*singing* We love Sankt Pauli, we do...
Jasper Nicolaisen
Free University Berlin
University Challenge