Dortmund Fan Club London Podcast of the fan club founded in 2013
Sports:Football
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision-makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Bundesliga, BVB and international football more accessible.
On today's show, a football and climate change special co-produced with Chris Lee of The Outside Write podcast our guests are Katie Cross of Pledgeball and Moritz Eckert of Guterfussball.
Pledgeball works by encouraging fans to make pledges in support of their team and the environment every match day.
The way it works is whilst the teams compete on the pitch, fans compete virtually by choosing from a list of pledges ranging from using a reusable cup to installing solar panels.
The team of fans that pledges to save the most carbon emissions wins that fixture. Pledgeball is a fan-led initiative which encourages clubs and fans to cooperate to change the way they operate to help reduce the impact on the environment.
Guter Fussball is a Germany-based initiative which encourages clubs to act in a more environmentally friendly way.
The guys at Guter Fussball have created a football table with a difference in their table scientific studies are supplemented with quantitative, qualitative and anecdotal data to produce a table where clubs are measured not just by points on the playing field but sorted based on their values.
The values include fan participation, environmental sustainability, fair play, tolerance, credibility and gender equality of opportunity.
Outside Write is a podcast series looking at the football supporter's experience and world including history, politics and culture essentially everything except what goes on on the pitch. The podcast has had over 250,000 downloads so far. Here are the talking points:
Some key discussion points on the show:
1. What football clubs, authorities and fans can be doing to make football more sustainable?
2. What clubs are leading by example and what are they doing?
3. What is football's carbon footprint and how can it be reduced?
4. Would it make sense to restructure football to reduce the impact on the environment?
5. What impact do football kits have on landfills and how can this be reduced?
6. What can clubs do to raise funds to help environmental causes?
7. What steps can fans actively take to reduce our impact on climate change?
8. How does the approach of Bundesliga clubs like Dortmund differ from Premier League and other leagues in terms of environmental policy?
09. Social media and projects
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Episode 29 German language episode ’Belief in Borussia’ - guest Pastor Karsten Haug, Holy Trinity Church Borsigplatz, Dortmund the founder church of BVB in 1909.
Episode 28 Has European Super league gone rigor mortis? With guests Maccabi Tel Aviv FC Goalkeeper coach Dennis Gentenaar (BVB 05/06) and Colin Farmery (When Saturday Comes)
Episode 27 German language episode - A goalkeeper for BVB but whom? With guests VFL Osnabrück Goalkeeper coach Rolf Meyer (BVB reserve keeper 1981-91) and Horst Bertram (BVB goalkeeper 1971-83).
Episode 26 UCL preview with Dave Mooney of Manchester City podcast 'Blue Moon' and special guest former BVB (1990-94) and Manchester City (1994/95) midfielder Steffen Karl
Episode 25 Say it with flowers - Welcome Marco Rose with Sascha Staat of Ruhrnachrichten newspaper
Episode 24 The Champions League is back! UCL preview with guest Vinny Samways former FC Sevilla (2002/3) and Everton (1994-96) and Tottenham Hotspurs (1986-94) midfielder.
Episode 23 Good Afternoon Herr Oberbürgermeister - Guest Ulli Sierau Mayor of Dortmund 2009-2020
German language episode 22 Happy 111th Birthday BVB Interview mit Wilfried Schiffer BVB Dauerkarteninhaber seit den 60er Jahre.
Episode 21 with guest Bert van Marwijk ”I dreamt of playing on the other side of the river” BVB head-coach 2004-6, current UEA headcoach
German language episode - Episode 20 ’Roberto Baggio war nicht zu stoppen’ - Gast Mittelfeldspieler Steffen Karl (BVB 1990-94)
Episode 19 ’I only played for big clubs’ with guest Philip Degen BVB defender 2005-8 (Bonus show with the Blood Red Liverpool FC Podcast)
German language Episode 18 - Gast Mittelstürmer Bernd Klotz (BVB 81-84) ’Dortmund war damals ein anderer Klub’
German Language Episode Ep. 17 - Mittelstürmer Will 'Ente' Lippens (BVB 1975-79) 'Ohne Fans ist es Kacke"
Episode 16 ’The Sammer years’ The Centreback former Norway international Andre Bergdølmo (BVB 2003-05)
Episode 15 Fan Kultur - Premier League v Bundesliga fan culture
Episode 14 The TV Presenter: Guest Raphael Honigstein - The season preview, let’s talk Borussia’s Bayern challenge..
Episode 13 ’German football governance is a sustainable model for wider football’ guest Chief Executive Duncan Fraser of Aberdeen FC
Episode 12 ’The Million Deutschmark man’ A Striker’s story England hero special guest Tony Woodcock (Active 1974-90)
Episode 11 ’The flying dutchman’ The Goalkeeper: Guest Dennis Gentenaar BVB reserve keeper (05/06)
Episode 10 Borussia Dortmund London Fan Club Podcast 1.FC Kaiserslautern bust, seriously?! With Nik Wildhagen of Talking Fussball Podcast.
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