“Header – Learning in the stadium” For the length of this pedagogical action, Spirit of Football focuses on civic education. The Max-Morlock-Stadium lies within the area of the former Reichsparteitag (the party congress of the Nazis) and was actually used for events by the Reichsparteitag. For the project-participants of the 8th and 9th grade, this […]
Who is in-the-know about the history of German football? Well? Who was Max Morlock? He won the … with Sepp Herberger in 19__ The weather isn’t quite as it should be Andi König, the person in charge of the initiative Lernort Stadion e.V led us over the holy octagon in the rain – this is the […]
THE BALL visits its 220,000 siblings in its birthplace in Goch In the afternoon we are warmly welcomed at DERBYSTAR. DERBYSTAR is one of our partners on this Journey and supports us with the sponsoring of balls and jerseys. The members of the staff are very interested to learn what is happening to their “baby” […]
Schalke goes to school – under the motto “Blue Carding Racism” Love Schalke – hate racism Before the major football derby of the rivals Schalke and Dortmund the following Saturday, kids from Dortmund and Schalke fans met to participate in the project “Civic Courage Derby”. FAIRPLAY was a big issue with the participants from Gelsenkirchen […]
Learning Centre Nr. 1 – Borussia Park (formerly Stadion am Bökelberg) Today began our two-week stadium-tour of 10 different Learning Centres of the Federal Republic. For the Kids these Learning Centres represent an interesting change from the usual school programm and an exciting atmosphere for a variety of new learning experiences. In cooperation with our partner […]
Spirit of Football’s FairPlay-Teamer Juliane has been a full-fledged primary-school teacher for one year now. She is responsible for a third form in the primary school of Neudietendorf, just outside of Erfurt. She has thought of something very special for the Journey of the Ball: she wants to follow it along with her class and […]
Who says that Mondays always have to be “blue”? This Monday was certainly spectacular. The Spirit-Team cycled for a whole day through the home town of The Ball and met many laughing faces and a few politicians too. Start in the Ulrich-von-Hutten-Schule Second stop: Johannesschule Off to Erfurt’s South: Astrid-Lindgren-Schule Coolly-creative: the […]
On the occasion of the home game of the FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt against the FC Chemmitz on April 8th, The Ball rolled through the Steigerwald Stadium and followed the match together with the Steigerwald Fan Kids in the FairPlay Block N. The Steigerwald Fan Kids represent a special stadium experience for children. In Block N […]
Weimar. Football and cars: two things that go well together. Not only the big football clubs have cooperations with automobile partners – on a regional level this can work just as well as in global sports. On Thursday, 5th of April, Mathias Schinner presented an Opel Vivaro to the team of Spirit of Football e.V., […]
Article in the Thüringer Allgemeine
