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Money instead of camaraderie: are “mercenaries” destroying amateur football?

sports show
01/17/2022
01:45 minutes
The first
By Hajo Seppelt, Arne Steinberg, Wigbert Löer and Ben Arcioli

For football patron Gerd Klapp, the free market economy also applies to amateur football. For Peter Bihn, club chairman at Eintracht Wald-Michelbach, the money is destroying the club atmosphere. Sociologist Tim Frohwein says: Money payments and frequent player changes undermine the socially integrative effect of amateur football in the long term. |
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