Midnight Sports
MitternachtsSport is a football project to promote integration and violence prevention for young people that was founded in Berlin in 2007 .
In 2007 a football match between young people and police officers was played in Berlin-Spandau . The initiator and German-Kurdish social worker Ismail Öner pursued the idea further and organized an opportunity to play indoor soccer regularly on weekends . The young people between 14 and 25 years compete against each other in small groups, every Friday and Saturday at night from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. In 2010 the association MitternachtsSport eV was founded for the project, and a number of prominent athletes could be won as patrons, here called Big Brother . Among them are Jérôme Boateng and Änis Ben-Hatira . In 2013 rapper Dú Maroc (feat. Jonesmann ) dedicated his song One Touch to the project, the single reached number 66 in the German charts.
The project has won several awards, including the Bambi for Integration in 2013 and the Integration Prize of the German Football Association in 2014 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ To the final in Brussels at tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ One Touch at officialcharts.de
- ↑ Integration prize of the DFB for the "midnight sport" at berliner-woche.de