Before a duel with RB Leipzig: Gladbach-Ultras announce protest

The Gladbach ultra group “SOTTOCULTURA” turns in an open letter against the “construct” RB Leipzig and announces a protest action for the game between Borussia and Leipzig.

Like the Ultras on their website sottocultura.de announce, “the first 19:00 minutes [der Partie] stand in the sign of the well-known and established protest against Red Bull and for our traditional club since 1900.”

In their statement, the supporters refer to the recently published “FPMG Supporters Club”, in which the former Borussia and current RB coach Marco Rose, but above all Max Eberl, who is also likely to be drawn to Leipzig, are sharply criticized . SOTTOCULTURA agrees with the opinion of the Supporters Club, but apart from the Eberl cause, they want to position themselves fundamentally “against the product from Leipzig”.

The Ultras’ statement goes on to say: “Games against this construct must never become normal. And because this sentence has been prayed up and down umpteen times in some statements and publications, including our group, we repeat it here again in no uncertain terms: games against Red Bull are not normal.” (emphasis in original)

“We simply must not get used to the fact that our opponent is a pure marketing product of a beverage company, otherwise the fight against these excesses of modern football has already failed. Football already has too many cancerous growths in it, the Bundesliga accommodates too many so many 50+1 exceptions and investor associations that we could afford to silence the criticism of our counterpart.”

So far, neither RB Leipzig nor the foals themselves have reacted to the Ultras’ writing.

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This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as.