Circle and across: Upper Bavarian romance – district of Munich

The bankrupt vulture circles over the Betzenberg at regular intervals. And whenever 1. FC Kaiserslautern is up to its neck in water, the city has to step in and spend taxes to save the pride of the Palatinate from bankruptcy. As a rule, it is about the lease for the Fritz Walter Stadium, which has already been cut in the third division from 3.2 million to 425,000 euros so that the four-time German soccer champion does not drown.

The Red Devils are by no means the only club that has had to be rescued by its home municipality – Hansa Rostock would have gone bankrupt in 2012 if the city had not waived tax debts on a large scale and provided a lavish subsidy. Duisburg came to their venerable MSV 2019 last second and pumped 2.5 million euros from the budget into the stadium company and club. Otherwise the zebras wouldn’t be galloping today.

And even the Munich Lions, nowadays actually constantly involved in quarrels with local politicians, had to sell the Grünwalder stadium to the state capital in 1937 in dire need in order not to go bankrupt. The NSDAP city council faction had previously bought parts of the club premises on Auenstrasse – on favorable terms for TSV 1860.

The fact that things can also go the other way around, i.e. a football club saving a community, sounds like science fiction, but it’s not that far-fetched. The Spielvereinigung Unterhaching, of all people, would slip into the hero role, after having often been the stumbling block in the community in the past. But now the ugly caterpillar has suddenly turned into a butterfly, because the sale of national player Karim Adeyemi from Salzburg to Dortmund brought a lot of money into the coffers of the training club in the south-eastern district, of 6.75 million euros. And so the sale of the municipal sports fields and the stadium to the club could become the lifeline. That stadium, from which it was said from the area around the town hall, one wished that the hooligans from Dynamo Dresden should please do a good job there.

The deal would of course fit perfectly with President Manfred Schwabl’s positioning of the game association as a people’s club. Identifying with the citizens is at the top of his agenda. And that is likely to increase if the association helps to ensure that the budget freeze that has just been imposed can soon be relaxed again.

The Holzkirchner saves Unterhaching, an Upper Bavarian romance. It remains to be hoped that one fine day the lions will not have to save the city of Munich from the stranglehold of impending bankruptcy, possibly through the purchase of the sixties stadium by investor Hasan Ismaik. A sheikh (who is actually a real estate mogul) as the Giesinger locust, goodness gracious, that might be a fiasco! A Chinese investor could enter the port of Hamburg right away.

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