Hertha Managing Director Peter Görlich wants to support football fans’ concerns about security measures planned by politicians at German stadiums. “In a democracy, the last word is never spoken. So they can express themselves as long as they do it with respect. They criticize, they can do that,” said the 58-year-old man after the second division team’s match against Eintracht Braunschweig about the fans’ protests.
At Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, both sides of fans stopped singing and cheering in the first twelve minutes of the game. The same thing should happen at other stadiums this weekend. «We experienced what we didn’t want in the first twelve minutes. “That’s actually what we don’t understand as a football culture,” said Görlich.
Hertha instead with the DFB and politics
“We are working very intensively to ensure that we can exert our influence,” said the managing director Hertha Continue. DFB President Bernd Neuendorf and Berlin Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) visited on Friday. “These are the issues we are working on together with the issues where we are also exerting our influence and really positioning ourselves in such a way that we want to maintain football culture in its true form,” Görlich said.
The topic of stadium security will be discussed from 3 to 5 December at the autumn meeting of the Conference of Interior Ministers in Bremen. Among other things, personalized tickets for football matches and tightening stadium ban guidelines are being discussed. Organized fans in Germany reject this. Every club knows that they depend on their fans, Görlich said.
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