Old men (soccer)
Old men , AH for short , describes the advanced age group in football.
origin
The term is borrowed from the language used in student associations , where the " Philistines " were referred to as old men . In the early days of football in Germany , which began particularly at the technical universities, some of the football fans applied the customs and songs of the student associations to the sport of football. The mostly middle-class supporters of the fashion sport imported from England distanced themselves from the classic liaison business. In Germany there is no uniform regulation of when a footballer belongs to the old men.
Old ladies
Analogous to the old men, older female soccer players are called old women, or AD for short.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christiane Eisenberg: Football in Germany 1890-1914. A parlor game for the middle class. In: History and Society. 20th year, issue 2/1994, pp. 184ff.
- ↑ With a false beard half right When the relaxed bourgeoisie sank on the sidelines: O wonderful football game. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. June 22, 1994, No. 142, p. N5 Humanities
literature
- J. Schwark: The old men: playing football as a way of life. In: DH Jütting (Ed.): The local-global football culture - scientifically observed. Waxmann, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1437-7 , pp. 195-208.
- J. Schwark: Empirical findings on old-man football or: Why 60-year-old footballers with high school diplomas are no exception! In: M. Krüger, B. Schulze (Ed.): Football in history and society. Czwalina, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88020-462-4 , pp. 151-161.