Füchse Berlin : youth work in new dimensions

In sports, as in life, it is advisable to think in the good times as a precaution to the less good. As about Germany national Handball team in January for the first Time in twelve years into the World championship semi-finals was drawn in, stand Bob Hanning a few minutes after the final siren in the catacombs of the Köln-Arena and was very basically. "We are now where we wanted to be," said the managing Director of Füchse Berlin and Vice President of the German Handball Federation (DHB). "We must seize this Chance and track. I'll remind the national associations regularly," said Hanning, "and if nothing happens, I put the Finger again and again in this wound."

As the largest Handball Association in the world to save the temporary Hype from the January in the future, how he attract young, new members and the continued popularity of the sport of my work – time, often-asked, obvious questions. How this looks in practice, was observed on Sunday in Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle. One of the main tenants, the foxes Berlin, had invited before the EHF Cup match against Balatonfüredi in co-operation with the Berlin basketball Federation for the day of the children's hand-ball and more than 1000 boys and girls followed the call of the Bundesliga. Even the foxes, which are for their good youth work is known, were the entirely new dimensions.

1000 boys and girls had come on Sunday in the Max-Schmeling-Halle

"We have been regularly awarded by the football League for our young. We are also aware that we have a head start for other Clubs“, says foxes-sports coordinator, Volker Zerbe. "But that is exactly what we may rest ourselves and that is why we organize a day like this." The primary target group young athletes up to the age of ten years, belonging to no club, it was, in a sense, the Nachfuchs. A lot of you have been commanded.

Overall, there was in the Schmeling-Halle 27 stands, where interested parents and children were able to inform, including relevant and well-known Partner of the DHB and the Füchse Berlin – from the health insurance Fund up to the sports article manufacturer. On top of that, the Berlin professionals went a few hours before the kick-off of their European Cup game up close with the potential hand shoot tomorrow: circle runner, Johan Koch, for example, the questions of the visitors, as sports coordinator, Volker answered Zerbe. And who would have been able to trace the way to the hopeful Talent with professional perspective better than the youth player Matzken, Matthes long-Hoff and Nils candles, whose uncle Carsten has kept 220 the goal of the German national team, Torben? So everything came across as authentic as possible, the questioning of the three young professionals in the space normally reserved for the official press conference after the game.

Füchse Berlin can 36:23 in the EHF-Cup against Balatonfüredi

after their tour of the hall could win all of the children free of charge to the European Cup game of the Berlin track. They saw a never endangered 36:23-runaway victory for the foxes – fittingly fell eleven Berlin gates on players trained by the club itself.