Bright, 0:90, colorful color
Football league of the gigantic contradictions is fighting further
The European League of Football is intended to re -establish sport based on the model of the old NFL Europe. But there are significant problems. It is about a lack of competitiveness, unprofessional structures and a shaped football stadiums. The league boss does not want to be discouraged.
Maybe you just have to imagine that in the Bundesliga. There is, sorry, names are interchangeable, Holstein Kiel or the 1st FC Heidenheim at halftime 0: 7 at Bayern Munich – and gives up. We have no chance anyway. Make your crap alone. This happened a few weeks ago in the European League of Football (Elf), which wants to professionalize football and also want to tap the huge potential of sport away from the USA. The Barcelona Dragons did not continue to play against the Munich Ravens at 0:54. And Patrick Esume went up the hat.
“This must not happen, there is no excuse for that,” says the commissioner, i.e. league boss. When looking again last Sunday, the dragons did not leave the field – but lost 0:90. This is fatal for a sport that sells the dream in the National Football League (NFL) that every team can become masters. “It goes a lot of wrong if you have such a discrepancy within a league,” says Esume. “This has to do with trying to get the transfer from amateur system to a profit in American football.”
The league is in its fourth year, it has once started to create sporting quality at eye level. She wants to move to the big stages and benefit from a boom that Esume describes as follows: “There has never been a Cinderella story like football in the sports landscape in the Federal Republic after football.” Millions of people have a favorite team: but in the NFL. In the eleven, the Hamburg Sea Devils from the Hannover 96 stadium flew because after the game of the lawn was colorful and completely battered.
The final? On Schalke
Still believes Patrick Esume: The Trend is Your Friend. “Flag football becomes Olympic, the NFL comes to Germany,” he emphasizes. “We also come to larger stadiums, it shows everything in the right direction. But it jerks.” The manual “How professionalized European football after 30 or 40 years of amateur league”, unfortunately he has not found that anywhere.
Patrick Esume is the commissioner and continued good things.
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So it continues according to the principle of experiment and adaptation. “Rhein Fire, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, everything is going very professionally,” says Esume. “Then you have Madrid – highly professional. Four hours further but a team like Barcelona that hangs far behind.” There are several of the 17 franchises from nine countries that regularly attract more than 10,000 spectators.
Esume is the enthusiastic voice of his sport in Germany as a TV expert and podcaster (“Football Bromance”). He cannot be discovered: “Sometimes you take a step to the side or one or two backwards, that's okay as long as the path basically goes forward.” In any case, the league final will be played in Gelsenkirchen on September 22nd – in the arena of Schalke 04. It is best to resolve with lawn color, which dissolves well.
