VfL – FCB: Brutale “fan-friends”: Much cut down a little love – n-tv.de NEWS

 Sport
 

 Monday, November 23, 2015

 
 
 

  From Ben Redelings
 

 

 
 VfL Bochum and Bayern München: Friends for Life? Almost everyone knows the Fanfreundschaft both clubs, which is re-ignited over the weekend on shoddy manner. But what is the secret behind this? And what Hermann Gerland has to do with it?
 

 
 

The events before the game FC Bayern Munich FC Schalke 04 on Saturday led to 196 arrests. The media wrote, when the people set out there is to have concerned mainly by supporters of FC Bayern and the VfL Bochum. Both associations distance themselves sharply from these fans, the VfL Bochum spoke in a specially issued press release even of “so-called VfL fans – in our opinion, there are no, because they hurt the club and its prestige massively”

Regardless of the actual events is pressing for football fans especially a question: Why precisely the ally accustomed to success supporter of Munich with the more successful inexperienced Bochum? A question that goes far back into the history of the two clubs. The result is the compound according to legend in 1973. In a game in Bochum supporters of FC Bayern have been addressed and pursued on the road from VfLern Castroper. Only the intervention of the “Bochum Boys”, one of the oldest fan clubs in Germany, prevented a bigger brawl. Then the followers drank some glasses together Pils and fraternized

“German champion is only the FCB” in Bochum

Gradually developed so -. And partly private – friendships. And one day the affection culminated in a common Fanscarf. The mid-nineties, however, emerged first cracks. Only rarely heard the earlier typical chants “German champion only the FCB” in Bochum Ostkurve. They had somehow lost sight of.

In the summer of 1997 finally there were even palpable clashes between supporters of both clubs in the old town of Düsseldorf. The Bavarians had arrived as the new German champion in Mönchengladbach, to end with the Bochum, who had just celebrated her first collection in Leverkusen in the UEFA Cup, the day. What then exactly happened and why, it can be hardly anyone remember correctly. But since this event, the long-lasting friendship for the majority of the fans of both camps was once passé.

scorn and contempt for the followers of marriage

But were the vast majority of football supporters in Germany the divergence of this friendship not with. Subliminally sounded anyway always with a trace of scorn and contempt for this particular trailer marriage. After all, who wants to be friends with the already large FCB? Was also in Bochum and the matter is under the fans not so clear. In the past, the old Fanfreundschaft led to heated discussions among the Blue-Whites.

Then a few years ago there was a high-profile revival. And that has something to do also with an in Bochum as Munich equally popular person: Hermann Gerland. As the Bochum Young Herbert Grönemeyer invited to celebrate Cup 2010 after Berlin, the Ruhr bard had to put up with the question of whether he was now defected to Bayern. Grönemeyer answered thinking: “So far it is not yet there but a very close friendship between VfL Bochum and Bayern..” The text appeared prominently on the website of Munich.

Read more about
 
 
 

The official resuscitation of an old tough love was then carried out by the friendly Ultra-groupings of the “high society” and the “Ultras Bochum”. Through her friendship lived in recent years on new. 2013 this was even officially “in friendship” sealed by a knitted scarf. However, one-sided. Because only the VfL Bochum took this on in his shop. There other utensils have been added to date, suggesting a closer relationship between the Ruhr club and Bayern. It will be interesting, as will be positioned after the events of Saturday just the VfL Bochum on this issue.

That the Fanfreundschaft that seemed actually completed, both teams was revived mainly by the Ultras is, more than a delicate side note of the events of the weekend. So, it remains as it always was: The Fanfreundschaft between VfL Bochum and FC Bayern Munich is arguably one of the most controversial of all time. And not just since Saturday!

  Source: n-tv.de
 

  themes