The core of football

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Without the creativity of the clubs and its many volunteers, because Günter Thistelrath is sure, the football in width would hardly come away as comparatively well over the Corona crisis, as it seems. Standstill has wehgean, said the president of the Lower Saxony Football Association (NFV). All are happy that the ball rolls again for several weeks.

As a pioneer among the country associations in the creation of sustainability reports, the NFV also wants to focus on complex work in the future even more. Distelrath presented this week in Barsinghausen the newly created Sustainability Award of the NFV as award of the association for the eligible associations. These can be presented from now and by the end of the year using a link on the homepage of the association (www.nfv-nachhaltigkeitpreis.de) your projects. You will be evaluated by the end of the year by a still to be configured, eleven jury. The winner beckons a fee of 5000 euros, overall prize money of 15 000 euros and prizes are awarded. Symbolically, there is a trophy in the form of a silver ball from which an eighth of the outer layer is cut out, so that a red inner part becomes recognizable - the core contents of football to which it is symbolic, explains Distelrath, who as chairman of the North German football - Association had recently handed over to his successor Ralph-Uwe Schaffert (Hildesheim) and after his remainder term as one of the DFB vice presidents in the future wants to devote all his homeland Lower Saxony. With clear ideas, as the 71-year-old underlines approximately in connection with the new action: Far beyond the purely ecological aspects is the sustainability of the compass in our future. A guardrail for our actions, gives orientation and also in the design of the Cup to Expression comes.

Especially in times of Corona, there were a variety of ideas in the clubs, as members of this difficult phase have been kept in the club, according to Frank Schmidt, Chairman of the Committee on Social Responsibility Committee at the NFV Committee. A starting point of the action Sustainability Award was therefore the question of how to reward this commitment. Especially since many projects - whether in the member support, recruitment of new active or even in the design of their own sports place - could be groundbreaking for the future over the time of the pandemic.