The FC. St Pauli will wear a special jersey for their home game against FC Magdeburg on Sunday. Where FC Bayern or BVB had a championship star sewn in, the Kiezklub now has a gender star.
Second division football team FC St. Pauli will wear a special jersey in the game against 1. FC Magdeburg. A gender asterisk can be seen above the club emblem on the shirt. With this campaign, the club is once again maintaining its image and once again making a statement on a socio-political issue. Hamburg will play against the promoted team from Magdeburg on Sunday (1.30 p.m. / Sky).
“Where the master star is emblazoned in other clubs, the star of the north shines with us,” said President Oke Göttlich, according to a statement on Friday. “Our statutes have been gendered for two years now, and we regularly use the gender star in speech and correspondence.” At FC St. Pauli this is everyday life. But you can see from “some expressions of opinion in the gender discussion how necessary the whole thing is still”.
FC St. Pauli: DFL guidelines make special jerseys possible
The gender star is part of a seasonal campaign by the neighborhood club. According to the club, it can be seen on the season tickets and communication areas.
Wearing such a special jersey has become possible thanks to a new guideline from the German Football League. According to this, additional shirts may be worn this season as long as they deal with diversity or sustainability.
Source: Stern
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