SteemSports 2k Giveaway Submission - Athlete, Marketing, Charity, Social Media
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Sports was always a huge part in my life
Since a young boy I am interested in Sports. At the age of 6 my parents got me to a gymnastics club aka Turnverein, with 7 I started to play football (for Americans: Soccer) at my home club Wormatia Worms. We won several regional titles – at the age of 17 I suffered from my first cruciate rupture along with a meniscal avulsion.
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After learning to walk again and training muscels I got back to the pitch but got injured soon again – after the third cruciate rupture my soccer pro career dream was history and I focused more on the boring fitness / gym stuff. Honestly mainly to pump iron and muscles to impress the girls. Did not work as planned – never achieved this six pack thing on my front.
Coming back to Football – I switched to supporter of my local home club and especially the regional Heros of 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Was a mad supporter being there every week cheering – at least I was able to celebrate German Champion two times with them – now they play in the second division only – but a love for a football club will never die. Interesting the Star of 1991 Champions in Kaiserslautern has just won the 2017 U21 Euro championship as Coach - Stefan Kuntz (you see him in the middle) and I was lucky to have the honour of meeting him in person when he was the boss of the Club some years ago.
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The 1998 championship was even more remarkable having risen from the second division under footballing miracle-worker Otto Rehhagel in 1997. Kaiserslautern became the only Bundesliga team to win the title after being promoted the previous season which was unthinkable given the mid-90s dominance of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
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Professional Sports experience
On a professional level we did work a lot on marketing for Sports brands such as Zumba, Shimano to name a few. When social media was near to become established I was running a full blown analysis of the social media / online activities of each German Bundesliga club.
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That was really fun these days and I was able to meet a lot of the Club Marketing People. Some even sent me Xmas cards.
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Sports on Social Platforms
On the network called tsu which was one the first that payed content creators based on ad revs I was leading a Football / Soccer community with over 10,000 people where we posted and discussed anything about our favorite sports. It was fun. Even the earnings were lower as here – every cent was great. My personal hightlight has been a Charity Contest I created during the Soccer Euro 2016 tournament. We managed to collect over $100 for charity. Glad to see more of the old Tsufamily joining Steemit and also some of the verified charities from that time.
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Hut ab ... Lauterer Fan zu sein ist nicht einfach dieser Tage .... sagt der Dynamo Fan aus´m Sachsenland :)
LG
Alter - das ist ja noch schwieriger :-)
... wem sagst du das :( .... und dann auch noch RB vor die Nase gesetzt bekommen ... pfffff ... schlimmer geht nimmer mehr
Besorgt Euch ein paar Sponsoren :-)
lol :) .... lass mal lieber gut sein .... nicht, dass uns dann noch "Flügel" wachsen :)
Sounds great! You should point us football fans to more people you know from the tsu family so we can follow them and each other and start building a soccer community on steemit too :)
Oh, and it's awesome that you always try to do something positive with your activity and do some charity of some sort, that's great and we're noticing ;)
Thanks for the feedback buddy - was my original plan here to build a football community - still a topic that needs more contributors.
Yep, it's hard to get started in a niche that is not very central to the whole platform. I tried a football post recently, but it really flunked. But to be honest, all my recent posts have flunked. I blame #hf19 :P
That's a beautiful story. I like this kind of little anecdote about people's lives. That's what makes us all interesting. I will follow you because you are a friend.
Thanks a lot for the nice words - appreciated
well story