Discover football

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Discover Football is an international women's football culture festival that has been held annually in Berlin since 2010 . The project received the Gustav Heinemann Citizen Award 2011.

Goal setting and tournament

The festival is a project of the football and encounter eV association, which has set itself the goal of both promoting women's football and advocating women's rights internationally. The 2011 festival was part of the official accompanying program of the 2011 Women's World Cup and took place from June 27 to July 3, 2011 in the Willy Kressmann Stadium in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Auma Obama , DFB President Theo Zwanziger and State Minister Cornelia Pieper attended the opening ceremony in the stadium .

Eight teams were at the start for the 2011 festival, seven of which came to Berlin from abroad. The teams came from Togo , Rwanda , the Palestinian Territories in Israel and Jordan , Cameroon , India , Brazil and France . All players were from groups who are involved in their home countries in social projects, in part, for women's and youth rights, partly for AIDS orphans or for residents of poor neighborhoods (slums, favelas ).

In 2013 the Libyan national women's soccer team was supposed to take part. The Libyan Football Association canceled the participation after a well-known television preacher spoke out against it, giving the reason for the fasting month of Ramadan . Because of Islamist death threats, the team has to conduct its training in secret locations and under guard. Because Gaddafi's supporters and opponents are on the team, it is considered an example of the reconciliation of the Libyan civil war parties .

The festival is supported by the German Football Association , the Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The patron of the festival in 2011 was the German President Christian Wulff .

Players in hiding

On July 6, 2011, the organizers of the festival announced that twelve participants from Cameroon and two from Togo had not left the country, but apparently went into hiding in Berlin, which led to police investigations into "illegal residence".

Awards

literature

  • Swantje Karich: A place in life: You wanted to play football in Berlin. Then 14 young African women went into hiding. Where? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from July 17, 2011 ( online ).
  • Annette Kögel, Björn Stephan: Illegal stay after a tournament. Police are looking for female soccer players from Africa. In: Der Tagesspiegel. from July 6, 2011 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of the team on the festival website
  2. ^ Libya's women's football team banned from major tournament, The Guardian, July 19, 2013
  3. ↑ The partners of the initiative ( Memento des Originals from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.discoverfootball.de
  4. ↑ Press releases ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Discover Football @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.discoverfootball.de
  5. ↑ Prize winners 2012. Accessed on May 8, 2017 .