Putin’s war is also present in amateur football in our region.
Recently I was standing at the ticket booth for a league game, rummaging through my wallet, lost in thought. Since I was in Poland to fill up the day before – keyword energy crisis – I still had a few banknotes from our neighboring country in my wallet. “Do you also take zloty?” I whispered to the cashier. “Reluctantly,” was the unsurprising reply.
A short breath later, the honorary keeper of the tickets said: “But what we don’t take here are rubles!”
“It’s better,” I grumbled back, “and let’s hope it stays that way.” No, I’m not afraid that Putin will be on Kurfürstendamm in 15 minutes. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m slightly sarcastic.
I was then on my way with my ticket in hand – I had actually found five euros – in the direction of the sports field when the oldie at the box office thought he wanted to respond to my sarcasm: “My buddy found his DSF ID card. “
DSF does not stand for Deutsches Sportfernsehen (today Sport1), but for German-Soviet friendship. In GDR times it was a kind of mass organization that you had to be a member of.
“You never know, but he still has to pay premiums for another 30 years…” ‘Oh, stop it’, I thought, ‘it’s come that far’ and trolled to the game.
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In Berlin and Brandenburg football, however, signs of solidarity are also being sent. Teams lined up with the Ukrainian flag. A minute’s silence followed.
Many teams collect donations in kind for the people of Ukraine. And there are clubs, like the women from Turbine Potsdam, that actively look after refugee children and play football with them. A really great thing in difficult times, I think.