Werder and Union donate consolation to Freiburg
After the final whistle, it was Freiburg who got messages from other clubs: Werder Bremen and Union Berlin offered consolation without mentioning Leipzig. “Cheer up,” Werder tweeted. “You played a great cup season and these are images that money can’t buy.” The “Eisernen” from Berlin wrote to the people of Breisgau: “You deserved it. Let yourself be celebrated anyway, nobody can take this historic cup trip from you!”
HSV did it in a similar way to VfL Bochum: Shortly after the final whistle, the Hamburgers immediately sent out congratulations – congratulations “to the best goalscorer of this year’s DFB Cup season.” Bobby Glatzel, a HSV player with five goals scored. No word on the cup final.
Congratulations to Kahn and Hoffenheim
FC Bayern was silent on Twitter, but CEO Oliver Kahn congratulated Saxony. He wrote “Congratulations from Munich to @RBLeipzig on winning the DFB Cup and on your first major title. See you in the Supercup! MiaSanMia WeiterImmerweiter.” Below that, a discussion broke out as to whether the tweet was inappropriate. Criticism of Kahn outweighed.
The only club that unreservedly acknowledged Leipzig’s success on Saturday was TSG Hoffenheim, which came to the Bundesliga with the help of billionaire Dietmar Hopp: After the message “Congratulations on the DFB Cup victory, Domenico Tedesco & RBLeipzig”, Hoffenheim also called for it -Fans in comments from the club to delete the message.
Hoffenheim has not been the main target of hate since Leipzig’s promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. Even less popular than Dietmar Hopp’s project is Dietrich Mateschitz’s construct. You have to know that the billionaire Austrian owner of Red Bull initiated the club 13 years ago in Leipzig, in which only Red Bull loyalists have the say and were allowed to become members of the club. The license of a Leipzig suburban club was a stepping stone and an emergency solution: First, the beverage company knocked on the door of FC St. Pauli and Fortuna Düsseldorf and got clear rebuffs.
In Leipzig, too, the team wasn’t allowed to be called “Red Bull”, so the entity was given the strange name “RasenBallsport”, abbreviated to RB. In the meantime, Leipziger GmbH has been allowed to convert 100 million Brauses, which were once intended as a loan and bought the march out of the soccer lowlands, into equity.
The third division club VfL Osnabrück even took up this in an open letter about the final: At RasenBallsport, unlike the other clubs, “the focus is not on promoting togetherness and sport [gestanden], was not a non-profit founding idea and the values of sport were not the inspiration for the development.” It was about promoting the ‘Red Bull’ brand and the values of the ‘Red Bull’ brand,” it says there. “Football was an instrument and means, instead of the other way around, external financiers were means for the development of the football club.”