Congratulations on your birthday, 1. FC Köln! On Thursday, the billy goats celebrated their 77th birthday with the laughing FC-Arena.
At 5:51 p.m. Werner Wolf entered the stage of the Lanxess Arena. The President of the 1st FC Cologne received an order in honor of the 77th birthday of the billy goats. FC was founded on February 13, 1948, and like two years ago, the club celebrated its day of honor on time before the climax of the carnival session.
It was a big show in the arena – with the only appearance of Querbeat during this year’s session. All sizes came to Deutz: from Cologne’s triumvirate via Brings, Paveier and the Klüngelköpp to the Bläck Fööss, Cat Ballou and Kasalla. Of course, the Höhner was the end of the evening with the FC anthem.
After the opening of the Drummerholics, President Wolf welcomed the celebrating fans and carnivalists. The club leadership was represented on Thursday alongside Wolf by Vice President Eckhard Sauren and Carsten Wettich and by finance manager Philipp Türoff. Then it really started. “How is our league leader here?”, The moderator of the evening called into the hall, filled with around 8,000 fans and carnivalists.
Just in time for the birthday, FC had included its very first club mascot, Hennes I., in the Hall of Fame. The billy goat was presented to FC exactly 75 years ago as a gift by the Williams circus. Wolf announced that in the future the members should be in charge of the Hall of Fame. “We would like to have that the members make suggestions to us who should be included in the Hall of Fame,” said Wolf. With Hennes I. However, those responsible may have made a worthy choice in the sense of the FC tradition.
Only the team had to skip this big party. The players and the team of coaches around Gerhard Struber had already started on Thursday afternoon by train from Cologne for the away game at 1. FC Magdeburg. On Friday evening it is important three points in the promotion battle at the direct competitor.
The FC professionals will only be allowed to celebrate on February 25th when the billy goats invite you to their traditional carnival session to the Maritim Hotel am Heumarkt. The FC will also take part in the Rosenmontagzug, with its own car and its own group. Then various players will ride on the car again.