Borussia Dortmund is involved, along with other companies at the Expansion of Yad Vashem. Real Madrid planning to make major investments in its stadium.
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Bundesliga, Dortmund: Borussia Dortmund sits in front of the sports summit in the football League, together with four large German companies is a clear political Signal. BVB supported with a Million euros to the Expansion of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel. “The BVB is a very political club,” said Hans-Joachim Watzke, the Chairman of the BVB Board of management. Just the football to be able to take in the fight against anti-Semitism and racism an important role: “We need to send a very clear stop sign to the society,” said Watzke, who was four days before the League top game of Borussia Dortmund at Bayern Munich for the launch of the Initiative in Berlin on Tuesday.
The total amount of support that goes back to an Initiative founded in 1997, the German circle of friends of Yad Vashem, is five million euros. “Future generations should know what suffering people can inflict on other people. We strive for international understanding, tolerance and peaceful co-existence”, emphasized the a total of five companies. “It is important not to identify themselves as a club, scoring goals and not want to go get,” underscore Watzke. 155 000 members and tens of millions of Fans and an obligation to work against racist and anti-Semitist tendencies.
More than a Million people a year visit Yad Vashem, the world’s largest memorial to the victims of the national socialist reign of violence. To the memory of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust is another “house of memories” will be established that is supported by the BVB, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen. Start of construction for the approximately 4,200-square-metre memorial centre in August this year.
Real Madrid: of The Spanish football record champion Real Madrid on Tuesday will officially launch the reconstruction of the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. President Florentino Perez gave insights into the Details of the renovation of the venue, which opened in 1947 and several times since then pimped. Accordingly, the redevelopment is expected to begin in may after the end of the season in the Spanish League and around four years. The cost of the media are reportedly more than 500 million euros. “It will be the best stadium in the world,” said Perez. The capacity of just over 80,000 seats is expected to change little, instead, it goes to the club to bring the Bernabeu to date. A completely new facade, a retractable roof and a newly designed forecourt of the stadium. The entire site covers an area of 66,000 square meters. Inside the stadium a 360 to be installed-degree video wall.
Schalke 04: team Schalke 04 has been assigned because of misconduct of its Fans from the sports court of the German football Association (DFB) with a fine of 27,000 euros. Up to 9000 euros, of which the club can use for security, technical, infrastructural, and violence prevention measures, which the DFB until 31. October 2019 to prove. The judgment is final.
Shortly before the kickoff of the Bundesliga game at 8. December 2018 against Borussia Dortmund had been ignited in the Schalke crowd in an opening choreography about 35 smoke cartridges, which white smoke was generated, the mist of the stadium in the meantime. In the 8. Minute burned in the standing room area for the guests also, anyone have a Bengal torch. It was also shown during the match in the Schalke Block a Banner with offensive content.
