Munich kangaroos

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Munich kangaroos Flag of Germany.svg
City: Munich
Founded: 1995
Team colors: White blue
Head coach: Mark Woods
League (2020): AFLG 16's league , AFLG 9's league
Greatest successes
German champion AFLG 16's league 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2016
German champion AFLG 9's league 2015
Contact
Internet: www.munichkangaroos.de
Data status
August 2015

The Munich Kangaroos Football Club eV (MFC), short Munich Kangaroos or just Munich Roos ( German : Munich Kangaroos ), is an Australian Rules Football Club from Munich .

history

The founding idea arose back in 1993 at one of the monthly meetings of the Munich Australian-New Zealand Stammtisch, at which the closing party of the Australian Football League was celebrated. As a result, rules were worked out and at the 10th anniversary of the German-Australian Stammtisch in May 1995 in the Löwenbräukeller , the topic was concretized. First two teams were formed, the "Munich Whites" and the "Bayern Blues" (also called the "Presidents") and the first two regular games could be held until September 1995. The colors white and blue were chosen not only because of the Bavarian national colors , but also based on the blue and white striped jerseys of the North Melbourne Kangaroos .

In December 1995 the German Australian Rules Football Association (GARFA) was founded in Munich in the legal form of a registered club . At the same time, the Frankfurt Redbacks emerged in Frankfurt am Main and entered the club register as Frankfurt Football Club as early as November 1995 . The first Australian football games could also be played between the Munich and Frankfurt clubs.

In 1999, GARFA joined the jointly founded Australian Football League Germany (AFLG), which other clubs gradually joined. There have been championships in the league since 2003. The Munich Kangaroos won the championship title in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2012, took second place six times and first place once in the 16's league (as of 2015). In 2015 the club competed in the AFLG 16's league as well as in the 9's league and won the title with 491.9 points. After a title tie with the Rheinland Lions in the 2015 season (both 5 championship titles each in the 16's league), the Kangaroos were able to win the championship title again in 2016.

Head coach and co-founder Julien Kann, son of Hawthorn Hawks player Brian Kann (* 1933), was not only the initiator of the Munich club and its long-standing president, but also one of the initiators behind the founding of the AFLG. Greg Langley, incumbent president and former head coach, is currently also the manager of the ALFG-Bundesliga.

More teams

There are now other Australian football teams in Munich that play in the so-called Bayern League , which was launched in 2010 by the '' Pasing Hawks '', the Schwabing Saints and the Sendling Blues , but which are actually made up of so-called second teams the kangaroos were formed.

20th anniversary - OzFest 2015 Munich

20 years Munich Kangaroos - "OzFest 2015" -Opening at the Rindermarkt :
v. l. To the right: Greg Langley (President of the “Roos”), Josef Schmid (Second Mayor), Julien Kann (Head Coach) and David Ritchie (Australian Ambassador to Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein).

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Munich Kangaroos organized the first Munich “OzFest”, a German-Australian “ Down Under ” open-air festival at the Munich cattle market in August 2015 , which was supported by the Munich Cultural Department and other sponsors . There, among other things, the Thunderbirds performed , which became known through the television series Irgendwie und Sowieso , in which Bruno Jonas played the bandleader as the postman named "Tango", and who were closely associated with some musicians of the Spider Murphy Gang , as well as the band The Karl Marx Brothers by the painter and musician Timothy James Webb .

Due to its success, the "OzFest" was held again from August 5th to 7th, 2016.

Club song

We are the Kangaroos,
We are the Munich Kangaroos,
We're the team who party hard then play,
Whether we're at home or playing away.

We're the true professionals,
No one can match us,
Or even catch us,
So prepare yourself for playing,
Against the Munich Kangaroos!

Championship successes

year competition
2003 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2004 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league
2005 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2006 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2007 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2008 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league
2009 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league
2010 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2012 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2013 Med 3.png AFLG 16's league
2014 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league
2015 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league
2015 Med 1.png AFLG 9's league
2016 Med 1.png AFLG 16's league
2017 Med 2.png AFLG 16's league

Board member and head coach since 2003

The overview on the club website is still incomplete.

year president secretary 1st assessor 2nd assessor Treasurer Women's team representative Head coach
2003 Julien May
2004 Julien May
2005 Julien May
2006 Craig Freer (†) Gunther Schmidt Julien May
2007 Craig Freer (†) Gunther Schmidt David Mudge Julien May
2008 Julien May Chris Gerlach Tim Horenburg Sean Rose Matthew Bell David Mudge
2009 Julien May Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Harit Khanna David Longworth David Mudge
2010 Julien May Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Harit Khanna David Longworth David Mudge
2011 Julien May Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Sebastian Ash David Longworth Greg Langley
2012 Julien May Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Sebastian Ash David Longworth Greg Langley
2013 Julien May Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Harit Khanna Sebastian Ash Greg Langley, Julien May
2014 Greg Langley Christian Eder Tim Horenburg Harit Khanna Sebastian Ash Julien May
2015 Greg Langley Christian Eder Martin Bauer Sam Clark Sebastian Ash Julien May
2016 Greg Langley Christian Eder Martin Bauer Sam Clark Sebastian Ash Julien May
2017 Chris Pettigrew Christian Eder Martin Bauer Sam Clark Sebastian Ash Julien May
2018 Chris Pettigrew Ben Louis Martin Bauer Sam Clark Sebastian Ash Mark Woods
2019 Chris Pettigrew Ben Louis Josh Wilson Lachlan Scully Sebastian Ash Katka Bakova Mark Woods

Internal honors since 2003

The club awards various internal awards to its players, coaches and other members who have made a name for themselves in the club.

year Club champion Best and fairest player Best game improvement Best debutant Trainer price Best club member
2003 Julien May - - - - -
2004 Julien May - - - - -
2005 David Mudge - - - - -
2006 David Mudge Jack Anderson Eric Baker Tim Horenburg Chris Gerlach Kai Saller
2007 David Mudge - - - - -
2008 Matthew Bell - - - - Christian Eder
2009 Mick O'Connell - - - - Christian Eder
2010 Julien May - - - - -
2011 Luke Heames Luke Heames Johannes Enßlin - Sebastian Ash Nilss Lode
2012 Brod Wells Brod Wells Justin Carroll Brod Wells Sebastian Ash Brett Neale
2013 Mark Woods Mark Woods Rob White Niall Donnelly James Lawrence Luke Heames
2014 Mark Woods Neal Harris Rueben strings Markus Preiss Christian Eder Sam Clark
2015
2016
2017

Web links

Commons : Munich Kangaroos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History , Munich Kangaroos Football Club eV
  2. ↑ 2015 AFLG 9s , AFLG.
  3. ↑ Kangaroos win first 9-a-side premiership , Munich Kangaroos, June 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kate O'Halloran: AFL Germany Expands , AFL Community, February 24, 2012.
  5. ↑ Christian Stüwe: Kangaroos against Emus in the Hirschgarten - Australian Football: A full-contact sport that looks like rugby will soon be celebrating its 20th anniversary in Munich , Münchner Merkur, June 23, 2015.
  6. ^ Board of Directors , Australian Football League Germany.
  7. ↑ Roland Jainta: Big jumps with the `` Munich Kangaroos '' , Schwabacher Tagblatt , March 30, 2013.
  8. ↑ cf. also Australian rules football in Germany in the English language Wikipedia.
  9. ↑ OzFest 2015 .
  10. ↑ Biography , Thunderbirds.
  11. ^ Artist , OzFest 2015.
  12. ↑ OzFest 2016 .
  13. ↑ Munich Kangaroos
  14. ^ A b Records & Stats , Munich Kangaroos Football Club eV