Berlin (dpa) – Fan representative Helen Breit has also identified a change in priorities for organized supporters due to the corona pandemic.
«Previously, the entire life was clocked according to the game plan. Due to the pandemic, the games could only be watched in front of the television for a long time. This creates other priorities and you notice that there are more important things than visiting the stadium, “said the chairman of the fan alliance” Our curve “in an interview with the Internet portals” spox.de “and” goal.com “.
Many fans would miss the atmosphere full of stadiums, and some would only return “when everything is the same as it used to be. I also feel a certain weaning from the ritual in many people from organized fan scenes, ”said Breit, who was also represented as a fan representative in the task force of the German Football League. In organized fan scenes, there is still great disappointment that no reforms have been implemented and only a few recommendations from the DFL task force have been addressed, said Breit.
The critical view of the advancing commercialization of football is now shared by more people than was the case before the pandemic. As an example, she named the “symbolic message of the ghost games” that it would ultimately work without fans. “That led many fans to no longer give everything unconditionally for their club.”