Bundesliga: Protest and great choreography - "Who pissed on our jerseys?"
The new Bundesliga season kicked off on Friday evening in Munich, where Bayern fans greeted their opponents with a fitting welcome before sending the unpopular visitors home with six crates of food.
The Munich Südkurve is known for always keeping an eye on their club and, if necessary, not sparing any criticism. And according to the Bayern scene, the new home jersey is certainly worthy of criticism.
Hermann Gerland recently ended his successful coaching career after more than 50 years. At FC Bayern, he served as a talent promoter and assistant coach to great coaches like Pep Guardiola. It was only logical that Bayern fans paid their respects to the Tiger.
The tour continues at Millerntor, where FC St. Pauli fans performed a beautiful intro complete with lots of confetti.
However, the north wind and the leaf blowers had a hard time with this.
This weekend's choreography comes from Köpenick. Fans of 1. FC Union Berlin depicted a goalkeeper flying over the stands, leaving a red and white checkered pattern behind him. You can see it in great motion pictures here.
"Hold on to your love," the Union fans captioned the post. Meanwhile, memories are also easy to hold on to.
This was also demonstrated by the fans of VfB Stuttgart, who rightly recalled a very nice day in May at the western end of the city of Berlin.
The first matchday was also marked by nationwide protests. The "Abolish Association Penalties" initiative renewed its pre-season demands, for example regarding the unsustainable punishment of pyrotechnics. Union fans could see corresponding banners, but also...
… with those from VfL Bochum to Schalke …
… among the fans of SV Meppen …
… those of 1. FC Köln …
… or even among the fans of Hessen Kassel.
But that's not all: The 50+1 rule, and especially the exceptions still granted to some clubs, are also a thorn in the side of fans. For example, those of SC Freiburg...
… or those of SV Werder.
Shortly before the start of the season, the police union publicly announced how it envisions a safe stadium experience in the future. Arenas, of course, belong to the fans, not to "rioters." Among other things, the union is demanding the use of modern facial recognition technology in the stands. In its statement, the organization painted a picture of stadiums as places of arbitrary control, where violence and chaos are the norm – despite years of statistics from the Central Information Center for Sports Operations (ZIS) suggesting otherwise. Here, fans of SpVgg Fürth share their thoughts.
And here is that of FC Bayern.
Meanwhile, SC Freiburg fans were still commenting on the changes surrounding TV coverage of Bundesliga matches. Among other things, camera crews can film in the locker rooms, and there are more interviews with players, even at halftime. In Breisgau, they have a suspicion about the possible motive behind this.
If anyone was still wondering where exactly the match would be played before kickoff of the neighborhood duel between FC Schalke 04 and VfL Bochum: here you go.
Meanwhile, the guests brought plenty of fires with them.
Just like the HSV fans, who were able to celebrate their return to the top flight in Gladbach after seven long years in the second Bundesliga.
The Karlsbande, the dominant ultra group at Alemannia Aachen, has been around for 15 years. This choreography was performed for their birthday.
The fans of SV Waldhof created this great choreography, including the club and city crests, for their home game against Viktoria Köln.
Roland Kastner, long-time goalkeeper of the Kleeblatt, passed away on June 16. Now, Fürth's fans have presented him with this stylish tribute.
Meanwhile, the fans of 1. FC Heidenheim remembered Georg Elser, who came from the Heidenheim district. Elser was an avowed opponent of the Nazis and the struggle for freedom during the Nazi dictatorship. On November 8, 1939, he carried out an unsuccessful bomb attack on Adolf Hitler in Munich. The Heidenheim fans had actually planned to perform the choreography in April, on the 80th anniversary of Elser's death, but for organizational reasons, this was only possible now.
At Eintracht Frankfurt's Waldstadion, the operators have been using a traffic light system since this season. If the light before a curve is red, you are not allowed to enter it, or you are not allowed to re-enter it after leaving due to overcrowding. SGE fans have their doubts about the system.
There were also “birthday greetings” for the 125th anniversary of 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Meanwhile, the fans of SV Werder thanked their former goalkeeper Michael Zetterer, who had to play against SVW in the first game of the new season with Eintracht Frankfurt, of all teams!
In addition, the Werder scene continued its thoughts about its friend and Hapoel ultra Hersh, who was murdered by Hamas.
Meanwhile, FC St. Pauli fans recalled the racially motivated pogroms in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992.
At Hertha BSC, the protest against the citrus-yellow alternative jerseys continues. According to the fan scene, the third jersey must also be recognizably linked to the club or city identity in some way. Berliners are therefore asking themselves: "Who pissed on our jerseys? ...
... we missed the colors of Berlin!" Red or red-and-black third jerseys, on the other hand, have a long tradition at Hertha, as the colors are reflected in the city's coat of arms.
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