Bundesliga: Fallen arms strike by Bayern ultras banners against Hoffenheim's owner | Bundesliga 2019

Saturday,
29
February
2020

18:35

The referee interrupted the match for 5 minutes for insults to the patron of the local team, owner of the SAP company, and the two teams ended up running the ball for 10 minutes

Bayern fans show banners against the owner of the Hoffenheim.
AFP

Hoffenheim and Bayern staged a kind of 'strike' against a group of ultras of the bvaro club, who had displayed insulting posters against the patron of the local team, Dietmar Hopp, and spent the last ten minutes.

The match, which ended with a 0-6 in favor of Bayern, was already settled for quite a while when the banners appeared on the Bayern curve. The central referee, Christian Dingert, interrupted the game for five minutes and then restarted it and in the meantime the two teams had agreed between them their strike of fallen arms in solidarity with Hopp.

Before, Bayern players and the technical body and part of the dome faced the ultras. Flick, coach Bvaro, and Thiago approached the area of ​​their fans to ask them to enter reason.

In the final minutes, Hopp and the president of the Bayern Board of Directors, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, were together, significantly, together with the band and in the midfield. Meanwhile, the two coaches were talking to each other and in the state there were shouts of encouragement to Dietmar Hopp.

Hopp, founder of the SAP computer consortium, created the Hoffenheim from practically nothing. He took him to the first category of German football and even to play the Champions League.

Hopp, white of the ultras

The figure of Hopp has become a permanent target of attacks by rival ultras who see it as a kind of symbol of football marketing. The most radical have been those of Borussia Dortmund, who have repeatedly raised posters with the figure of Hopp locked in the sights of a rifle.

Rummenigge (right), along with Hopp, during the match.
Rummenigge (right), along with Hopp, during the match.AFP

The foregoing has led to criminal complaints and for Dortmund's followers to have their entrance to the Hoffenheim stadium banned. On this Saturday's posters, Bayern ultras intend to sympathize with Dortmund ultras.

The match had a brief first interruption, when a first poster was deployed. Ah the Bayern players went to the stand and argued with the ultras, while in the box, Rummenigge approached Hopp to hug him.

In the second interruption, decreed by the main referee, the teams went to the locker room for five minutes and then returned to the field with the decision taken to make their protest gesture, amid the applause of most of the public and Shouts of support for Hopp.

At the beginning of the second half of the Freiburg-Dortmund, despite the fact that Hoffenheim had no role in the game, there was also an interruption by critics against Hopp.

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