Datschiburger Kickers
The Datschiburger Kickers are an Augsburg charity football team with a changing line-up. Well-known athletes, local celebrities from Augsburg and show stars played together in the team. The team was founded in 1965 by Max Gutmann , an Augsburg entrepreneur and sponsor of sport and science, and the sports journalist Horst Eckert . The impetus for this was a charity game between FC Schmiere and the Augsburg celebrity team on July 17, 1965, which 30,000 people wanted to watch in the Rosenaustadion .
The Datschiburger Kickers are still active today. More than 300 games have been played since 1965 and over 1.5 million euros have been raised for social purposes. Since the club was founded in 1965, the Kickers have remained undefeated for almost 45 years. On July 23, 2010 the winning streak of the Datschiburger Kickers ended in a game against the sports press team, which they lost 4: 3. The name of the team is derived from a nickname for the Augsburg citizens, the Datschiburgers . This in turn is based on the Zwetschgendatschi , a yeast cake invented in Augsburg .
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Datschiburger Kickers played in the Augsburger Rosenaustadion in front of up to 20,000 spectators. The most famous team members were athletes such as Helmut Schön , Günter Netzer , Sepp Herberger , Helmut Haller , Uwe Seeler , Franz Beckenbauer , Gerd Müller , Fritz Walter , Uli Biesinger and Max Schmeling . However, celebrities such as Gunter Sachs , Gert Fröbe and Uschi Glas also competed .
literature
- Horst Eckert (text), Günter Swoboda (design): 40 years of Datschiburger Kickers eV 1965–2005 . Augsburg, 2005.
- Beate Spiegel (Ed.): Kick-off !: for football in Bavarian Swabia. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Swabian Folklore Museum Oberschönenfeld from April 7 to October 15, 2006 . Series of publications by the museums of the Swabian district, no.36. Swabian Folklore Museum Oberschönenfeld, Oberschönenfeld 2006.
- Werner Klinger, Horst Eckert: Augsburg football history . Verlagsgemeinschaft Augsbuch, Augsburg 2006. ISBN 3-938332-08-5 .