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A life for the guard

Quarterback Heiko Pittelkau was one of the founding fathers of the Magdeburg Virgin Guards in 1995 and is still there 25 years later.

Magdeburg l When visiting his relatives in East Berlin, Heiko Pittelkau got to know the sport that had a lasting impact on his life during the GDR era. “Because of their proximity to the West, they received other stations, and that’s when I saw American football from the NFL for the first time,” says Pittelkau, adding: “I was immediately fascinated.”






Beginnings in Wernigerode

The chance to play the American collision sport himself, however, was only offered to him many years later – after the fall of the Berlin Wall. “I read a newspaper article in 1993 that there is a team in Wernigerode. I got in touch through a friend and was soon able to try my hand at training, ”says Pittelkau. He liked the “Mountain Tigers” so much that he – by no means the only Magdeburg resident – commuted to the Harz for training sessions and games week after week. “That was a very exciting and wonderful time,” the veteran remembers with pleasure.






On one of the many trips to Wernigerode, the idea of ​​bringing American football to the Elbe was finally born. “We already had a tribe with the Mountain Tigers through our parliamentary group and we quickly found some football crazy people in Magdeburg,” says Pittelkau.

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