Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Werder Bremen: DFB Cup in the sign of protest

• ofGeorg Leppert

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Eintracht fans are planning actions against the DFB during the cup match against Werder Bremen.

On Monday evening, the boys from “Fußball 2000” also joined in the debate about the Hoffenheim patron Dietmar Hopp and the banners of the fans. The Eintracht supporters, who produce a video podcast after each game on their team, announced on Twitter that they would like to help people who experience “real discrimination”. Therefore, they donated 1300 euros, which they had raised with the sale of pullovers with the words “Advent, Advent, the curve burns”, to the Anne Frank educational center in Frankfurt.

Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Werder Bremen: there will be protests

It remains to be seen whether Eintracht fans in the north-west curve at the cup game against Werder Bremen will also express in such an elegant way that they consider the expressions of solidarity to be excessive. One thing is certain: there will be protests in the stadium. Against Hopp and above all against the reintroduction of collective penalties by the DFB. It remains to be seen how far the statements of displeasure will go, whether there is a risk of the game being abandoned after triple insult in chants or on banners. Nobody from the fan scene wants to speak publicly.

Eintracht fans reluctant in the past

The fans are very aware of the sporting importance of the game. In this respect, it would at least be surprising if the fans wanted to provoke a game abandonment from the start and would only rely on dumb insults. Especially since the role of Dietmar Hopp for the Frankfurt fan scene was no longer a big topic. There were banners against the patron in the Frankfurt curve only in the early years of TSG Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga. Critical and coarse posters, especially against the DFB, are likely to be seen today. Should the referee consider this an insult – as happened, for example, when Union Berlin played against Wolfsburg – it could be difficult to continue the game.

No parallels to racism

Eintracht coach Adi Hütter meanwhile has a clear opinion on the current discussion. “Personal insults have no place on the football field,” he said on Tuesday and added: “I expect our fans to support us 100 percent.”

In the meantime, the fan lawyers working group spoke up and criticized: Instead of dealing with the core of the protests (the collective punishments), numerous football officials linked racism, “which in the case of the banner against Dietmar Hopp is simply inappropriate and factually incorrect is “.

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