Links on racism in footbal

• 11 Freunde: nation-wide magazine on football culture published monthly. The web-site includes not only the fanzine (not all articles are available on-line) but also various links, videos of ultras – fan events in the stadium, and also on-line columns, information about stadiums, betting, etc.
• Stehplatz ermäßigt: very nice site put together by the SV Babelsberg 03 fans in Potsdam. »ermäßigt stehen gegen rechts« (»against the Right in the cheaper standing room area« with annotated links, articles on stadium politics, analysis of home games, etc.
• Blutgrätsche: attractive and well-organized on-line football fanzine, with lots and lots of information – from game results, commentator blunders and satirical articles to reading recommendations and a lot of football information.
• Die Homepage der Initiative blauweiß statt braun, website of »blauweiß statt braun«, put out by fans of Karlsruher SC. other than press releases (the last one dates from May 2001) and the possibility to upload your signature in support of the campaign, it doesn’t contain any new information or projects.
• on-line exhibition on the history of black football players in Great Britain.
• Leeds United – Fans against racism website of the Leeds United fans
  *shows how they deal with racism in English stadiums and provides a lot of links.
• Text on football and racism and an accompanying discussion forum; annotated links to other groups including B.A.F.F., as well as to the campaigns started by Sheffield, Leeds United, English national team against racism; a report on the nation-wide meeting of fan representatives, etc.
• Schalker Faninitiative e.V. fanzine, erstellen ein regelmäßiges Fanzine Schalke Unser, includes an article on »Capitulating to the Racists« (German text), from Schalke Unser No. 29 (March 2001) and and »We both felt it was a joke« (German text) from Schalke Unser No. 25 (March 2000)
• Dem Ball Egal: Schalker fan initiative, which created and runs the media project together with other national league teams, fan organizations and foreign partners, as well education and media experts. Various press releases on the topic can be found here.
• Doppelpass: SV Waldhof Mannheim Fans against Violence and Racism a report on mondiali antirazzisti in Italy, Doppelpass on bermuda.funk – a free radio broadcaster in Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck – and information about everything having to do with the club
• Fanprojekt Duisburg:fan project against racism, a joint initiative of Radio Zebra, the fanzine »blutgrätsche« and Fanprojekt Duisburg. site currently under construction – a lot of things don’t work yet.
• »Was leisten Fan-Projekte?« (»What do fan projects accomplish?«) – an article by Prof. Dr. Gunter A. Pilz, University of Hannover, Institute for Sports Sciences (PDF-File)
• FARE Football Against Racism in Europe: network of different European organizations against racism in football. coordinator/ sponsor: Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation (VIDC)/ FairPlay-Projekt member organizations: Kick it Out Ltd. (London), Football Unites-Racism Divides-FURD (Sheffield), Show Racism the Red Card (Newcastle), 5. Progetto Ultrà/UISP Emiglia Romana (Bologna), Unione Sport per Tutti -UISP Nazionale (Rom), Bündnis Aktiver Fußball-Fans-B.A.F.F. (Düsseldorf)
  FairPlay/Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE)
  c/o VIDC, Weyrgasse 5, A-1030 Vienna.
  Phone (0043-1) 713 35 94-83 Fax (0043-1) 713 35 94 73
• Paper against racism in Kaiserslauten (Stimmung statt Rassismus), news heading all about this topic, photo gallery, and stickers: FCK – Fans against racism, etc.
• Löwenfans gegen Rechts: website of TSV 1860 München fans against racism in the stadium, reports on racist incidents at Löwen games, viewpoints of fans against the Right and general information on the club.
• Football Unites, Racism Divides: Sheffield United F.C. fan site of the English club, Sheffield United. reports and links to fan initiatives against racism and xenophobia at football games (including migrant trainer projects, prizes for youth doing volunteer work, etc.)
• Show Racism the Red Card: Top Footballers Against Racism
• interview with antifascist football fans in Glasgow
• web-sites of red and anarchist skinheads for football
• Kickout: Football’s National Anti-Racism Campaign site offers a poll but no other options.
• Jungle World article about racism and anti-Semitism in amateur football: »Kanaken gegen Nazis. Rassismus und Antisemitismus gehören zum Amateurfußball wie Eigentore und Laienschiedsrichter.« by Klaus Walter.
• Notbremse: internet fanzine published by Hannover 96 Fans, who received a prize from the Green party. The text can be read under »news« (frames): »Wir sind ultrapolitisch« report under »news« (frames) on FARE receiving the UEFA award, »Football against racism«
• link to and information on the Vienna FARE congress 1999. ’pop-up’ is a European on-line magazine for youth published by Eurofighter ’97 e.V. (1)
• antiracist football tournament in Göttingen. 15 – 16 September 2001, organized by the Verein zur Förderung antifaschistischer Kultur, e.V.
• SPIEGEL article about racism in Italian stadiums: Defeat in cases of racism – 04 February 2000 – stopping the game and taking away points as a strategy against racist and nazi banners in the stadium
• SPIEGEL interview with Otto Addo, of Borussia Dortmund about racism, patriotism and about Africa’s football future.
• interview, or rather conversation, between the hip-hop artist, Afrob, and football player, Gerald Asamoah, in the Süddeutschen Zeitung dated 13 August 2001
• a collection of various taz articles – the results of a search on the topic
• report on the nation-wide meeting of fan representatives: The difficulty of dealing with racism in the stadium: critical article »honouring« the meeting of 26 fan representatives from across the country.
• summary of specifically Austrian activities undertaken within the framework of FARE
• interessante Artikel, zur FIFA-Sonderversammlung, interesting articles
  * on FIFA’s Extraordinary Congress, anti-racist World Cup, etc.
• italian site with many short text by ultras and hooligans from Europe. (Site was closed april 2001.)

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