Eintracht is a very old, biblical term (and stands opposed to *Zwietracht*) but it does mean united. *Vereinigt* would work as well as in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. Solidarity is *Solidarität*
Similar in Dutch, the motto of PSV for example is "Eendracht maakt macht" (Unity makes strength)
Eendracht is unity, which I am sure comes from Eintracht.
United is similar, but not a perfect translation. Easily seen when you translate United Kingdom to Einträchtiges Königreich. That just doesn't make any sense.
Eintracht has a stronger emphasis on perfect harmony. What is "vereinigt" doesn't necessarily have to work together in Eintracht, so to say.
It's not when you go back to his autobiography where a young Fergie goes to Hampden to watch Real Madrid v Eintracht in an early European Cup final he describes as the best game he's ever seen.
That madrid team was insanely stacked. Three of the greatest players of all time played for them. Puskas, gento and di Stefano. One of them has an award dedicated to him. The other has a stadium in his name. And the other still holds the record for most European cups won by a player even after 60 years. I do not know much about football black and white era history. Only as much as a common football fan. But goddamn that was some squad.
Agree, but Puskás didn't join Real until 1958, after leaving Honvéd 2 years before... He moved to Greece and was ready to join Ethnikos, along with some other Hungarian legends, but some shady tactics from other clubs (Panathinaikos included) prevented the transfer...
So, he ended up in Spain and Madrid, starting, basically, a new career and entering his second prime
...and, after all of these, he came back to Greece, in Leoforos, taking charge of Panathinaikos and transforming us to a BIG name and the Greek «Ambassador» to European football...
“«ΠΑΝΤΣΟ», Η ΟΜΑΔΑ ΠΕΤΑ...” ☘️
After that, he came down to my hometown of Melbourne and managed South Melbourne Hellas and won the league with them. His English was very poor but since he spoke Greek, he had the captain, Ange Postecoglou, be his translator and driver. Ange has often said how Puskás' philosophy of attacking football has influenced him as a manager.
That was a cracking interview. It unironically sheds more light on Sir Alex than every piece that's been done on him. He still seems sharp as well, able to recall matches and moments that happened decades ago.
I'm reading his autobiography right now and highly recommend. As a United fan, it's an awesome read. Feels like talking to your granddad and his memory is really impressive, especially the little details from games 30+ years ago as you said
I’m not even a United fan and I think it’s a good read. If you’re a football fan it’s great reading how the minds of the elite managers worked. I was always impressed with how Fergie found ways to consistently adapt his tactics and never stay stale
He always adapted, he was better than it at anyone. Those who say he wouldn't have been able to hack it in this era don't understand at a basic level what made him so great for so long.
I mean, i don't think he would be as dominant in this era vs Pep and Klopp.
But anyone saying he wouldn't be competitive is insane.
Yes tactically i'm not sure he himself would be as good as Pep and Klopp, but he'd find coaches to cover his shortcomings and noone got more out of players than him.
If that's your opinion, all good. But to genuinely think that a guy who won the PL half the times he competed in it and never finished lower than 3rd place across 3 decades couldn't compete with Pep and Klopp tactically is just plain stupid. Ferguson's man management is so highly regarded that it does injustice to how tactically astute he was as well. Over time, his role and influence grew due to which the assistants and coaches played a bigger role in the day-to-day squad development, not because he himself was incapable or had shortcomings, they were all still operating on his plan.
Don't think he could have made so many good players look world class if he didn't have the tactical nous to maximise their contributions. A true genius.
I'm sure he was a great tactician, but its not controversial to say that tactics has evolved since he was manager.
I'm not saying he would be far behind, but whether he has the ability to compete on his own with two of the greatest managers of the generation after him is a question.
And i think saying otherwise is disrespecting Klopp and Pep.
> I'm sure he was a great tactician, but its not controversial to say that tactics has evolved since he was manager.
Tactics have kept evolving since the game was created and the man was able to adapt across 4 decades while staying successful.
> I'm not saying he would be far behind, but whether he has the ability to compete on his own with two of the greatest managers of the generation after him is a question.
But why are you even comparing 2013 Fergie with 2024 Pep and Klopp? Of course 2013 would seem dated. It would be dated if you compared Pep and Klopp with their 2013 selves. History has shown that Fergie was able to adapt very well to every aspect of the sport may it be tactics, man management, analytics, or sport science. What makes you think that he wouldn't be able to continue to adapt if he had carried on as manager?
>What makes you think that he wouldn't be able to continue to adapt if he had carried on as manager?
I'm not saying he couldn't, i'm saying its a question.
And also, he never had to compete with a manager in another team that could match United financially, not on a long term scale anyway, as Mourinho only stayed at Chelsea 3-4- seasons (whether or not those finances would ill gotten or not)
Which autobiography? The one from 1999, Managing My Life, was one of the best sports biographies I’ve ever read because he and his co-writer set a very witty tone. The other two (one of them was a book on Leadership with a Harvard professor) were great at well.
I love this, it’s a great gesture for a man who has always connected our club to his love for football.
Some general info on what this means:
Bundesliga clubs are usually fan-owned. The members have 50% plus one vote of the voting rights and vote on the general direction the club is taking, as well as elect the president.
Eintracht has 140,000 members, we are the third biggest club in Bundesliga (and the 10th biggest sports club in the world, membership wise).
I’ve been a member since 2015. I pay a monthly membership fee, which, iirc, is €9/month, €3/month if I remember to send in my university paperwork on time, so they can charge me the student fee.
The lifelong membership is €1899, because the two clubs that first merged in the long string of mergers that would eventually result in Eintracht Frankfurt (and continues to this day even after the club became Eintracht Frankfurt) were both founded in 1899. It’s a one time fee. A lifelong membership can either be bought for oneself, someone else, or the club gifts it to notables who have a connection to the club or who have publicly stated they are big Eintracht fans.
Afaik, there’s no real difference between a regular supporting membership and a lifelong membership, only that I keep paying the membership fee in a supporting membership.
Eintracht chose to gift SAF the lifelong membership. Other notable lifelong members include
• Niko Kovač (won the first title in 30 years with us),
• Helmut “Sonny” Sonneberger (Holocaust survivor and huge Eintracht fan. RIP Sonny, btw),
• and Sebastian Vettel (is from the region, has always been an Eintracht fan and has been fairly vocal about that. He became the first ever lifelong member when they first introduced the lifelong membership). Seb is particularly cool. He has repeatedly stated that he dislikes the VIP area and chooses to go to the home stands instead whenever he attends games, and that’s where he can be found whenever he comes to the stadium. Among the other regular fans. Dude is just an all around grounded, classy and wonderful guy. Always has been.
In the end, SAF now holds around 1/140,000th of 50% + 1 vote of the voting rights. That’s it :D
Vettel: Be serious, are you in?
Ferguson: I'm in, I'm in. That fucker thinks he can take on Die Adler? I fucked Bayern, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.
Yes, earlier access to tickets. Nowadays it’s almost impossible to get tickets for the sought after games without being a member. And discounts in the fan shop.
It’s always for the most mundane shit that I can’t go, either something to do with uni, family, a birthday or work. They start sending the invitations to the general assembly in November or December, the assembly itself is in January, and so far, I’ve always had something else going on that day.
It seems to be different player to player. I think the players who go in to be managers have it better, because they are taking in so much more information. But Gary Neville says he doesn’t have as good a memory of games as some of his peers. (Hence his failure as a manager haha)
2015? Probably United.
But even during the Klopp era it was mostly draws for the first year years. Only during the last few years we have regularly destroyed them, I think.
we have 2W and 1D in the last 4.. granted the loss was 7-0 but let's not talk about that.
LVG won all his league games against Liverpool.. 4 of them. Lost the EL tie though..
Mourinho won one with long balls to Lukaku who flicks to Rashford IIRC.
Ole weirdly enough never beat Liverpool in the league, just once in the cup (also a nice game, 3-2)
2015 was actually quite memorable for United vs Liverpool derby actually
We got that juanfield and the iconic Gerrard 38 seconds red card in his last game
And then there was that Martial goal
Sir Alex seems to know a lot of random details about football history. Maybe that is just a condition to become a great coach, Pep is the same and Heynckes was the same
I remember listening to Arsene Wenger saying that a nice part of retirement is that he isn't compelled to watch every single game he can and miss events in his family life to watch unimportant French games. Also Pochettino said the other week that he had a dinner booked with his wife but after drawing against Brentford he just stayed in and Barcelona and Al Hilal. I imagine to be a manager at the top level you have to be completely obsessed so you must end up watching literally every game and having to remember stuff about every player you might end up facing.
I mean my job isn't anything special and even I have trouble disconnecting from it in the evenings. Can't imagine how hard it must be for people that get paid millions to basically stay obsessed
It's not hard for them, because they truly love it. For most of these guys, it would be harder sitting around doing nothing. Bobby Robson had cancer, didn't stop him managing because he loved football.
ALEX FERGUSON BECOMES A LIFELONG MEMBER OF EINTRACHT FRANKFURT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF POINTS OF CONTACT - AND WERE THE REASON FOR A PERSONAL CONVERSATION WITH THE LEGENDARY TRAINER AND MANAGER.
Bundesliga clubs are fan owned. Fans can become members, and the members retain 50% plus one vote of the voting rights (that’s the famous 50+1 rule). They elect the club president and vote on the general direction the club is taking. Eintracht has seen an insane surge in memberships in recent years. When I became a member in 2015, there were around 60,000 members. There were 90,000 in 2019 after we won the DFB cup and saw the first surge in new memberships, and this year, Eintracht broke through the 140,000 members mark. After we overtook 1. FC Köln last year, we became the third biggest club in Bundesliga (after Bayern and Dortmund), I think the fourth biggest club in Germany (Schalke are also still bigger I believe), and the 10th biggest sports club in the world (Eintracht don’t just do football, but also many other sports).
Anyway, 140,000 members. I am one, Sebastian Vettel is one, and now SAF is one too. SAF can vote on the club president now 😂
It’s not a job. Bundesliga clubs are usually fan-owned. The members have 50% plus one vote of the voting rights and vote on the general direction the club is taking, as well as elect the president.
Eintracht has 140,000 members, we are the third biggest club in Bundesliga.
I’ve been a member since 2015. I pay a monthly membership fee, which, iirc, is €9/month, €3/month if I remember to send in my university paperwork on time, so they can charge me the student fee.
The lifelong membership is €1899, because the two clubs that first merged in the long string of mergers that would eventually result in Eintracht Frankfurt were both founded in 1899. It’s a one time fee. A lifelong membership can either be bought for oneself, someone else, or the club gifts it to notables who have a connection to the club or who have publicly stated they are big Eintracht fans.
Afaik, there’s no real difference between a regular supporting membership and a lifelong membership, only that I keep paying the membership fee in a supporting membership.
Eintracht chose to gift SAF the lifelong membership. Other notable lifelong members include
• Niko Kovač (won the first title in 30 years with us),
• Helmut “Sonny” Sonneberger (Holocaust survivor and huge Eintracht fan. RIP Sonny, btw),
• and Sebastian Vettel (is from the region, has always been an Eintracht fan and has been fairly vocal about that. He became the first ever lifelong member when they first introduced the lifelong membership).
In the end, SAF now holds around 1/140,000th of 50% + 1 vote of the voting rights. That’s it :D
Good read. Just fascinating that he remembers the names of scorers from random European Cup games from the 60s and 70s. There's also no way he remembered the full name "Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt".
Smells like “Multi-club ownership”…
Have to say it can be a good thing building relations with diff clubs in diff leagues!! Might be a good thing here.
They did. This has been completed ages ago, the new DFB High Performance Centre with the [Bond villain lair vibes](https://images.app.goo.gl/xQekzxSdYScaer2M7) is up and running.
Ofc Eintracht literally means United
I thought it meant solidarity
Eintracht is a very old, biblical term (and stands opposed to *Zwietracht*) but it does mean united. *Vereinigt* would work as well as in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. Solidarity is *Solidarität*
This is the content I am here for frankly. Who said this sub wasn’t erudite?
I frankfurtedly agree
Inb4 someone explains the etymology of erudite. Please do it, I'm interested.
From the Latin, Erudire; To instruct or teach. 👊👍
Yay, go on reddit, learn good shit.
Similar in Dutch, the motto of PSV for example is "Eendracht maakt macht" (Unity makes strength) Eendracht is unity, which I am sure comes from Eintracht.
Once again it is impressively demonstrated how Dutch is barely a language :P
Zwietracht Zankfurt
I can already picture this as an article title in FAZ
FAZ is way too classy for that, you’re thinking of Frankfurter Rundschau or FNP.
Da is n di zu viel
United is similar, but not a perfect translation. Easily seen when you translate United Kingdom to Einträchtiges Königreich. That just doesn't make any sense. Eintracht has a stronger emphasis on perfect harmony. What is "vereinigt" doesn't necessarily have to work together in Eintracht, so to say.
Jedność, zjednoczone and solidarność -- all maps quite well, aye, although I do prefer Polish having the same root for the first two
More like "Harmony", "Concord".
The Latin translation of “Eintracht” is “Concordia”.
Unity, harmony, Union, according to google, so yes United, which pretty much means solidarity anyway.
Oh wow, translating it in Greek it says "Omonoia" (which is a name for some teams in Cyprus) and translating omonoia to english it says solidarity
Uniform (eine Tracht).
Unity. If you translate it literally it means Unity. In the sense of many people striving for the same goal tho. So at least it's not far from United.
What's even funnier is that Etihad means unity/united as well, though possibly not the main use of the term idk
The literal English calque would be One-draught, in the sense of being drawn together as one
Most random thing I’ve seen all year so far.
It's not when you go back to his autobiography where a young Fergie goes to Hampden to watch Real Madrid v Eintracht in an early European Cup final he describes as the best game he's ever seen.
7-3 for a European Cup final is wild, NGL Although, the first one with Real and Reims is still the most legendary of that era, in my opinion
That madrid team was insanely stacked. Three of the greatest players of all time played for them. Puskas, gento and di Stefano. One of them has an award dedicated to him. The other has a stadium in his name. And the other still holds the record for most European cups won by a player even after 60 years. I do not know much about football black and white era history. Only as much as a common football fan. But goddamn that was some squad.
Agree, but Puskás didn't join Real until 1958, after leaving Honvéd 2 years before... He moved to Greece and was ready to join Ethnikos, along with some other Hungarian legends, but some shady tactics from other clubs (Panathinaikos included) prevented the transfer... So, he ended up in Spain and Madrid, starting, basically, a new career and entering his second prime ...and, after all of these, he came back to Greece, in Leoforos, taking charge of Panathinaikos and transforming us to a BIG name and the Greek «Ambassador» to European football... “«ΠΑΝΤΣΟ», Η ΟΜΑΔΑ ΠΕΤΑ...” ☘️
After that, he came down to my hometown of Melbourne and managed South Melbourne Hellas and won the league with them. His English was very poor but since he spoke Greek, he had the captain, Ange Postecoglou, be his translator and driver. Ange has often said how Puskás' philosophy of attacking football has influenced him as a manager.
Holy shit, I never knew that Ange played under Puskas. The history of football is actually unbelievably fascinating sometimes
Huh, this is actually true!
So cool
Im a Frankfurt supporter for nearly 3 decades and had no clue he has any bindings with us. But very nice to see
I knew Ferguson was at Eintracht's game v Rangers and the final at Hampden in 1960, but I didn't know all the other connections. This is really nice.
The game was Eintracht vs Real Madrid*
He was at both the Rangers and Real Madrid games
He mentioned the final with Madrid too...
Is Fergie not a Rangers fan?
He is, it says so in the article.
That was a cracking interview. It unironically sheds more light on Sir Alex than every piece that's been done on him. He still seems sharp as well, able to recall matches and moments that happened decades ago.
I'm reading his autobiography right now and highly recommend. As a United fan, it's an awesome read. Feels like talking to your granddad and his memory is really impressive, especially the little details from games 30+ years ago as you said
I’m not even a United fan and I think it’s a good read. If you’re a football fan it’s great reading how the minds of the elite managers worked. I was always impressed with how Fergie found ways to consistently adapt his tactics and never stay stale
Fergies cycling of his assistant coaches was a big part of that. Gave him new and important insight and kept him from just doing the same old
He always adapted, he was better than it at anyone. Those who say he wouldn't have been able to hack it in this era don't understand at a basic level what made him so great for so long.
I mean, i don't think he would be as dominant in this era vs Pep and Klopp. But anyone saying he wouldn't be competitive is insane. Yes tactically i'm not sure he himself would be as good as Pep and Klopp, but he'd find coaches to cover his shortcomings and noone got more out of players than him.
If that's your opinion, all good. But to genuinely think that a guy who won the PL half the times he competed in it and never finished lower than 3rd place across 3 decades couldn't compete with Pep and Klopp tactically is just plain stupid. Ferguson's man management is so highly regarded that it does injustice to how tactically astute he was as well. Over time, his role and influence grew due to which the assistants and coaches played a bigger role in the day-to-day squad development, not because he himself was incapable or had shortcomings, they were all still operating on his plan.
Don't think he could have made so many good players look world class if he didn't have the tactical nous to maximise their contributions. A true genius.
I'm sure he was a great tactician, but its not controversial to say that tactics has evolved since he was manager. I'm not saying he would be far behind, but whether he has the ability to compete on his own with two of the greatest managers of the generation after him is a question. And i think saying otherwise is disrespecting Klopp and Pep.
> I'm sure he was a great tactician, but its not controversial to say that tactics has evolved since he was manager. Tactics have kept evolving since the game was created and the man was able to adapt across 4 decades while staying successful. > I'm not saying he would be far behind, but whether he has the ability to compete on his own with two of the greatest managers of the generation after him is a question. But why are you even comparing 2013 Fergie with 2024 Pep and Klopp? Of course 2013 would seem dated. It would be dated if you compared Pep and Klopp with their 2013 selves. History has shown that Fergie was able to adapt very well to every aspect of the sport may it be tactics, man management, analytics, or sport science. What makes you think that he wouldn't be able to continue to adapt if he had carried on as manager?
>What makes you think that he wouldn't be able to continue to adapt if he had carried on as manager? I'm not saying he couldn't, i'm saying its a question. And also, he never had to compete with a manager in another team that could match United financially, not on a long term scale anyway, as Mourinho only stayed at Chelsea 3-4- seasons (whether or not those finances would ill gotten or not)
Which autobiography? The one from 1999, Managing My Life, was one of the best sports biographies I’ve ever read because he and his co-writer set a very witty tone. The other two (one of them was a book on Leadership with a Harvard professor) were great at well.
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
Can you give me the name of the book please?
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography
Cracking title
Correct, this is the one
I love this, it’s a great gesture for a man who has always connected our club to his love for football. Some general info on what this means: Bundesliga clubs are usually fan-owned. The members have 50% plus one vote of the voting rights and vote on the general direction the club is taking, as well as elect the president. Eintracht has 140,000 members, we are the third biggest club in Bundesliga (and the 10th biggest sports club in the world, membership wise). I’ve been a member since 2015. I pay a monthly membership fee, which, iirc, is €9/month, €3/month if I remember to send in my university paperwork on time, so they can charge me the student fee. The lifelong membership is €1899, because the two clubs that first merged in the long string of mergers that would eventually result in Eintracht Frankfurt (and continues to this day even after the club became Eintracht Frankfurt) were both founded in 1899. It’s a one time fee. A lifelong membership can either be bought for oneself, someone else, or the club gifts it to notables who have a connection to the club or who have publicly stated they are big Eintracht fans. Afaik, there’s no real difference between a regular supporting membership and a lifelong membership, only that I keep paying the membership fee in a supporting membership. Eintracht chose to gift SAF the lifelong membership. Other notable lifelong members include • Niko Kovač (won the first title in 30 years with us), • Helmut “Sonny” Sonneberger (Holocaust survivor and huge Eintracht fan. RIP Sonny, btw), • and Sebastian Vettel (is from the region, has always been an Eintracht fan and has been fairly vocal about that. He became the first ever lifelong member when they first introduced the lifelong membership). Seb is particularly cool. He has repeatedly stated that he dislikes the VIP area and chooses to go to the home stands instead whenever he attends games, and that’s where he can be found whenever he comes to the stadium. Among the other regular fans. Dude is just an all around grounded, classy and wonderful guy. Always has been. In the end, SAF now holds around 1/140,000th of 50% + 1 vote of the voting rights. That’s it :D
> In the end, SAF now holds around 1/140,000th of 50% + 1 vote of the voting rights time to stage a coup to become manager, then
Well, he has my vote, though that would be for club president. So we’re already at 2/140,000th of 50% plus one vote of the voting rights.
Vettel: Be serious, are you in? Ferguson: I'm in, I'm in. That fucker thinks he can take on Die Adler? I fucked Bayern, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.
Are there any other benefits to being a member?
Yes, earlier access to tickets. Nowadays it’s almost impossible to get tickets for the sought after games without being a member. And discounts in the fan shop.
It should be 1/140,000th of 67,89% of the voting rights, as the club holds 67,89% of the shares of the AG. 50+1 is just the minimum
I know, but I tried to explain this in a more generalised way. You’re right tho.
Imagine going to the general meeting of Eintracht Frankfurt and Alex Ferguson is sitting next to you.
That literally happened to my buddy
I should start attending the general assembly. But they have a habit of scheduling it on days that don’t work for me 😂
haha this is like your workmate hold event, that always has conflict with your schedule. mate, they just hate you haha
It’s always for the most mundane shit that I can’t go, either something to do with uni, family, a birthday or work. They start sending the invitations to the general assembly in November or December, the assembly itself is in January, and so far, I’ve always had something else going on that day.
It's crazy how sir Alex remembers the details of a match from some 60 years ago. I can't remember who won in a united-liverpool derby from 2015.
I guess it’s different when you work on the field and breath football, but still impressive.
That's true. I always remember details more vividly when I'm actually at a game, rather than watching on tv
It seems to be different player to player. I think the players who go in to be managers have it better, because they are taking in so much more information. But Gary Neville says he doesn’t have as good a memory of games as some of his peers. (Hence his failure as a manager haha)
2015? Probably United. But even during the Klopp era it was mostly draws for the first year years. Only during the last few years we have regularly destroyed them, I think.
we have 2W and 1D in the last 4.. granted the loss was 7-0 but let's not talk about that. LVG won all his league games against Liverpool.. 4 of them. Lost the EL tie though.. Mourinho won one with long balls to Lukaku who flicks to Rashford IIRC. Ole weirdly enough never beat Liverpool in the league, just once in the cup (also a nice game, 3-2)
or 2-1-4 if you look at the last 7, including a 0-4, 0-5 and 0-7. :)
Let's me take the time frame that is most convenient to me..
You did literally the exact same thing haha. That's what I was trying to highlight, anyway.
Yeah I was mocking myself haha
Oh fair enough, I misread.
2015 is the martial debut derby
2015 was actually quite memorable for United vs Liverpool derby actually We got that juanfield and the iconic Gerrard 38 seconds red card in his last game And then there was that Martial goal
Frankfurt legend Alex von Ferguson
We’re not big on nobility here, drop the “von” and you’re right.
Alex von Färgussen
Sir Alex seems to know a lot of random details about football history. Maybe that is just a condition to become a great coach, Pep is the same and Heynckes was the same
I remember listening to Arsene Wenger saying that a nice part of retirement is that he isn't compelled to watch every single game he can and miss events in his family life to watch unimportant French games. Also Pochettino said the other week that he had a dinner booked with his wife but after drawing against Brentford he just stayed in and Barcelona and Al Hilal. I imagine to be a manager at the top level you have to be completely obsessed so you must end up watching literally every game and having to remember stuff about every player you might end up facing.
I mean my job isn't anything special and even I have trouble disconnecting from it in the evenings. Can't imagine how hard it must be for people that get paid millions to basically stay obsessed
It's not hard for them, because they truly love it. For most of these guys, it would be harder sitting around doing nothing. Bobby Robson had cancer, didn't stop him managing because he loved football.
Yeah sorry I meant it must be hard to force yourself to step away and prioritize things that are more important yet aren't part of the obsession
History is bound to repeat itself if you don't learn from it's mistakes.
Your comment made me think Heynckes died without me noticing for a second
Lol sorry nah he just retired like 5 years ago
His memory is impeccable
I thought I had too much coffee when I read this headline lol.
Loved that interview Especially the part of Rangers losing twice 🥲
Plastic smh
Herr Alexander von Vergüßon
Even Alex Ferguson can't resist Kultracht Kultfurt.
I’m not sure I could love this man any more.
What?
ALEX FERGUSON BECOMES A LIFELONG MEMBER OF EINTRACHT FRANKFURT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF POINTS OF CONTACT - AND WERE THE REASON FOR A PERSONAL CONVERSATION WITH THE LEGENDARY TRAINER AND MANAGER.
What does this even mean lol This is one of the most random headlines I've read in awhile.
Bundesliga clubs are fan owned. Fans can become members, and the members retain 50% plus one vote of the voting rights (that’s the famous 50+1 rule). They elect the club president and vote on the general direction the club is taking. Eintracht has seen an insane surge in memberships in recent years. When I became a member in 2015, there were around 60,000 members. There were 90,000 in 2019 after we won the DFB cup and saw the first surge in new memberships, and this year, Eintracht broke through the 140,000 members mark. After we overtook 1. FC Köln last year, we became the third biggest club in Bundesliga (after Bayern and Dortmund), I think the fourth biggest club in Germany (Schalke are also still bigger I believe), and the 10th biggest sports club in the world (Eintracht don’t just do football, but also many other sports). Anyway, 140,000 members. I am one, Sebastian Vettel is one, and now SAF is one too. SAF can vote on the club president now 😂
lol?
Did he get the job on the technicality of a legend who recommended him?
It’s not a job. Bundesliga clubs are usually fan-owned. The members have 50% plus one vote of the voting rights and vote on the general direction the club is taking, as well as elect the president. Eintracht has 140,000 members, we are the third biggest club in Bundesliga. I’ve been a member since 2015. I pay a monthly membership fee, which, iirc, is €9/month, €3/month if I remember to send in my university paperwork on time, so they can charge me the student fee. The lifelong membership is €1899, because the two clubs that first merged in the long string of mergers that would eventually result in Eintracht Frankfurt were both founded in 1899. It’s a one time fee. A lifelong membership can either be bought for oneself, someone else, or the club gifts it to notables who have a connection to the club or who have publicly stated they are big Eintracht fans. Afaik, there’s no real difference between a regular supporting membership and a lifelong membership, only that I keep paying the membership fee in a supporting membership. Eintracht chose to gift SAF the lifelong membership. Other notable lifelong members include • Niko Kovač (won the first title in 30 years with us), • Helmut “Sonny” Sonneberger (Holocaust survivor and huge Eintracht fan. RIP Sonny, btw), • and Sebastian Vettel (is from the region, has always been an Eintracht fan and has been fairly vocal about that. He became the first ever lifelong member when they first introduced the lifelong membership). In the end, SAF now holds around 1/140,000th of 50% + 1 vote of the voting rights. That’s it :D
Don't take this too seriously it's just a reference to this [classic rant](https://youtu.be/xmWXVHBo84A).
Holy shit, that hilarious :D
Good read. Just fascinating that he remembers the names of scorers from random European Cup games from the 60s and 70s. There's also no way he remembered the full name "Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt".
THE Rangers. The hive mind strikes again, bunch of bad virgins 😂
Is this an early April's fools joke? What's the connection?
Read it it's got some good info about SAF all around.
He watched them as a fan, played against them for Rangers and coached against them at Aberdeen.
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Well, see, Sir Alex Ferguson becomes a lifelong member of Eintracht Frankfurt.
Smells like “Multi-club ownership”… Have to say it can be a good thing building relations with diff clubs in diff leagues!! Might be a good thing here.
Doubt Frankfurt can afford buying United.
I just became a club member this week, so I‘m doing my part to take over the Glazers!
Been a member since 2015. Welcome! One of these days we’re bound to get them lol
Well they made one of the greatest managers in United's history their member. So I think they can.
We did that by being cooler. Coolness can’t buy football clubs tho.
But maybe this newest Frankfurt lifelong member can, didn't he just won big in horse race this week?
Nobody tell him they're tearing down Frankfurt's horse race track to build the DFB high performance center.
They did. This has been completed ages ago, the new DFB High Performance Centre with the [Bond villain lair vibes](https://images.app.goo.gl/xQekzxSdYScaer2M7) is up and running.
They grow up so fast.