Home » today » News » When a football year began with the magic of booths at indoor tournaments When a football year began with the magic of booths at indoor tournaments January 2, 2022 by world today news The big hall time : When Fortuna started a football year with booth magic – Successful booth magic again in 2008: Captain “Lumpi” Lambertz (17) presents his team with the winner’s cup in Erfurt. Photo: Christof Wolff / Wolff, Christof – – Düsseldorf After the cancellation of the training camp in Marbella, Fortuna is now for the second time in a row without winter preparation in the south. Before the turn of the millennium, this was common anyway: trophies were played in the hall. A look back that not only brings romance. Football in the hall – the modern fan of today immediately thinks of futsal. That variant of the game dominated by fine technology, whose origins lie in South America and in which there is even a Bundesliga today in which Fortuna is represented. But there was a time when a football year began with real booth magic: indoor tournaments in which people were often less technically brilliant than hard-hacked. And almost the entire German elite took part in full ranks. – The first days of the new year in particular were very popular for this. While the clubs are busy preparing – or even canceling – training camps in the south today on New Year’s Day and the days after, trophies were played in the hall in the 1980s and 1990s. –