What Draws you to BVB?

[The Double]

How did you start to support the squad? What drew you to our beloved BVB?

[stevewhit0]

When i was 12 my brother went to germany and he came back at gave me a BVB kit, that was 1997, champions league win :) . I really didnt follow Dortmund untill i was about 15. Made my first trip to Dortmund when i was 19. What Draws me to BVB? I guess its beacause it was the first kit i got but i think what really drew me to dortmund was my love of german culture. I guess its wherei felt i belonged.

[jonam]

Originally posted by The Double
How did you start to support the squad? What drew you to our beloved BVB?

as stated in another thread i was born 80km east of dortmund. my brother was/is a big bvb fan and so i'm.

btw, my father is a royal blue (schlacker)!

[The Double]

Originally posted by jonam
as stated in another thread i was born 80km east of dortmund. my brother was/is a big bvb fan and so i'm.

btw, my father is a royal blue (schlacker)!



You sure he's your father? ;)

[jonam]

Originally posted by The Double
You sure he's your father? ;)


my mother told me so?!?

;-)


jonam, http://www.schwatzgelb.com

[aloisius]

Double, you could give us your answer as well

[The Double]

All I kept hearing regarding German football was Bayern! Bayern! Bayern! So when I was in Germany, I went to a soccer shop in Frankfurt. I was talking to one of the guys their who was decked out in Black and Yellow, and just as I was about to pick up a Schalke shirt to buy, he calmly puts it back on the rack, picks up a BVB shirt, Pays for it, and leaves. Ever since then, I did my research on the club, and love them to this day. Plan on going to the Stadion soon.

[footyfan1]

I went to Germany in October 1988 as a soldier in the US Army. I played the game when I went over and was still just falling in love with it. However, I only knew Bundesliga football from watching "Soccer Made In Germany" religiously. But, from watching that, one would almost certainly become a Bayern fan and I was that. However, once I got to Germany, I was "lucky" enough to be stationed in Bavaria (Bayern) in the Nuernberg area (Erlangen). I was "lucky" enough to meet some Bayern fans and they started to take me to the Olympiastadion with them in 1990. Once I was there, I learned how arrogant and "untrue" (fair-weathered) many of them were. They made me SICK with their assertion that they BELONGED at the top of the league. As if they were ENTITLED to be champions every season.

And then there was the racist incident I had at Olympiastadion from some "fellow" Bayern fans. Some just happened to be mad at "Africans" that day and decided to try to kick my ass for it. As you see above, I'm American, not African, but for me, that was just the last straw with the arrogant Bayern fans I didn't even like anymore. I tore off my Bayern shirt outside of Olympiastadion, threw it on the tracks of the U-Bahn and went home to Erlangen before that match was even over.

I supported 1. FC Nuernberg from 1991-1993, and still "like" them to this day as my "local" team for most of my years in Germany. Even though I haven't heard from him in a long while, I still consider Tony Sanneh a friend of mine.

I had also followed 1. FC Kaiserslautern for a bit because of other American football fans and grew to like 1860 Munchen because of my newfound hatred of Bayern, whom I now refer to as "BayScum". Which stands for "Bayerisches Scum" or, as I used to like to call them, "The Scum of Southern Bavaria".

However, in 1992-1993, I discovered BVB. Our guys were fighters and I do have to admit that I was very attracted to the "Schwarz-Gelb". Being the average American there, I knew nothing about the rest of Germany outside of my little world and having married my now ex-wife in 1989, she was suprised when I came to her one day and asked her how to get to Dortmund. We had already begun our split at that time and it turned out she's from the Dortmund area! Well, actually she's from a town about 30 minutes southeast on the other side of Hagen called Gevelsberg. I knew where that was, but not how close it was to Dortmund.

A funny twist to that is that a few years ago, I wound up "seeing" her old best friend after meeting her at Westfalenstadion!! LOL!!

Anyway, I have fallen in love with Borussia Dortmund like I never have with any woman.


Remember the racist incident at the Munich Olympiastadion???

I had almost the same racist incident happen to me one afternoon in the Sudtribune. However, some other fans I didn't even know came to my aid as I was being pushed around by three Neo-Nazis. I'll never, ever, forget that.

Since I still work for the US Army, they sent me back here to the USA this past April after almost 15 years in Germany and I have to say, that besides my son, the thing I miss the most is going to Westfalenstadion and cheering on our beloved BVB!!!

Beer and Ladies run a close third!! LOL!!




Keith
Hoping To Get Back To Germany Next Year.....

[aloisius]

I think the traffic on this forum could now Double!

[footyfan1]

If I have the time, it certainly will. I spend most of my free e-mail time on my Borussia Dortmund/World Football e-mail list.

[MadridForLife]

After watching the Bundesliga for about a year and a half I never really decided a German club to support. After footyfan1's post on why he supports Dortmund he might have single handedly convinced me on what club to support!! That was quite amazing. Also after seeing Dortmund games on FSW it seems like there are not many stadiums in Europe that match the Westfalenstadion for atmosphere.

[soccerfreak #1]

I was born in the grey and lonely lands of eastern germany(in 1983) and I hated watching football since 1994, despite playing in my hometown cub since 1991.

In 1994 I watched the WC in the USA without being interested a lot, but then I watched the quarterfinal against Bulgaria, where we lost 1:2 and felt in love with this emotional game.

But now I had the problem that there was no bundesliga club I could suppport, cause the nearest firstleague club was 150km(dresden) away.

Now I had to find a club for other reasons, so I looked where my favoured player were playing.
These were Andreas Moeller(my no.1) and Andreas Koepke(no.2).

I knew that Moeller played for Juve, so i looked for Koepke and supported Frankfurt, but not for long, cause when I heared that Moeller moved to Dortmund I became a BVB fan.
After watching some games on tv, I found some more sympathic players, like Susi and Mathias Sammer(since then my all time favourite) and there was no way to get me away from BVB again. With years I also learned many things about the history and the supporters of dortmund and now I would call me a hardcore fan who is not phisically, but mentaly at every dortmund game(thank god for internet radio).

Unfortunatly I only managed to see one game live, in 1997 the season opening game at berlin(great atmosphere there with a thrilled crowd of 67k people, despite a boring game), despite living near cologne since 1999......

[footyfan1]

MadridForLife, Dortmund is the true team to support in Germany!! There is no stadium with the atmosphere we have in Westfalenstadion. The only other one that comes close is in Kaiserslautern.

SoccerFreak#1, if you are in Koln, you should get up to Dortmund for matches!! I lived in Bavaria and I got up to Westfalenstadion as much as I could. Five hour drive from where I lived.

Hey, if I can do it, you can do it!! There are certainly enough seats now!! LOL!!! :-) :-)

[soccerfreak #1]

Originally posted by footyfan1

SoccerFreak#1, if you are in Koln, you should get up to Dortmund for matches!! I lived in Bavaria and I got up to Westfalenstadion as much as I could. Five hour drive from where I lived.

Hey, if I can do it, you can do it!! There are certainly enough seats now!! LOL!!! :-) :-)

If you would give me the money, sure.
I´m a 20 years old student without any income still living with his parents. where should I take the money from????????????????

[footyfan1]

OOPS!! My bad guy!! Plus, I was kidding around! That's what the smiles and the "LOL" mean. Didn't mean to offend you! Sorry!!

[pathil]

my parents are from dortmund, i was born in witten (near dortmund) but lived my first years in dortmund! so it was clear, that i would support the team, my relatives support too.

[MadridForLife]

Thanks for the post on BVB09. I'm pretty close to deciding if their my team. Had a few questions. After they didn't qualify for the CL is there still the felling of mass exodus of players as there was? Also what is the town of Dortmund like? How big? One more, whats the capacity of the Westfalenstadion?

Thanks

[jonam]

after we failed to qualiy there was something like panic in and around the club, now we can look back and see it was a major upset but bvb will come back for sure. the only player that left was goalie jens lehmann to arsenal.

after we failed champions league qualification no one left.

dortmund is a former coal mining town, but today it is a modern city without any mining. it was/is the beer metropol of germany. with 600.00 it is the 7th largest city in germany. it is located on the eastern border of the "ruhr valley".

for more informations visit http://www.dortmund.de/

the westfalenstadion has a bundesliga capacity of 83.000 (27.000 terrace places and 56.000 seats) and a uefa capacity of 67.000 seats. it will probably host a semi final at the world cup 2006.

for more informations on bvb and the westfalenstadion visit our site

http://www.schwatzgelb.com


jonam, schwatzgelb.com