Spectator scenario in Bochum as an example for the Hänsch Arena?
After a 469-day hiatus, the SV Meppen football team will depart on Sunday in
her second year in the Bundesliga in the German women’s top division, the
Women’s Bundesliga. And after 469 days, the opponent is still SC Freiburg.
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The Bakhuis-Elf are challenged from the start against last year’s sixth-placed Breisgau, but they also want to prove to the league that they can rightly be counted among the top 12 teams in the country.
The defeat in June 2021 was painful, meaning a temporary return to 2nd FBL after a year in the women’s Bundesliga. But by then Meppen had already indicated that participation in the German top flight was not to be a flash in the pan. The team meanwhile proved this with last year’s 2nd FBL championship and its return.
Now the goal is to stay in the classroom. “We came to stay!” It is heard everywhere in Meppen and the team wants to concentrate on Sunday and maybe build on the first leg against Freiburg in December 2020. “One of our best games of the season”, remembers Meppen sporting director Maria Reisinger. “We had to take the lead by one or two goals for a long time, but then we conceded goals and KOs with nine minutes to go. But it is these experiences that have made us grow”, the goal is to convert what has been experienced. in positive experiences for the future. Freiburg will not be an easy task, “the team drew attention to themselves in the last preparatory match with a 6-2 away match at Hoffenheim”, the coach of the Meppen Carin Bakhuis.
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Interest in Meppen’s return to the Bundesliga is palpable. The number of tickets sold so far gives hope for an adequate scenario. Last week’s DFB Cup match at VfL Bochum could serve as a model. More than 1,400 spectators supported their team and gave their team wings.
“A desirable dimension”, Maria Reisinger appeals to football fans to also focus on women’s Bundesliga matches in the future. “Corona robbed us of the chance to play in front of the crowd in our first year in the Bundesliga. Now we hope the Emsland people and other fans will want to check out the best German women’s teams at Hänsch Arena. As a team. , we want to continue to spread the joy that the women’s Europeans have aroused in our stadium “.
Over the course of the upcoming Bundesliga start, the media interest in the
The SV Meppen players have recovered. In addition to local media (an Ems-Vechte-Welle radio interview with Maria Reisinger and Laura Sieger will be broadcast on Thursday from 12), Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) was also a guest of the SVM training camp during the week. Coach Carin Bakhuis will represent Meppen women’s football on Saturday as the half-time host in the live broadcast of the 3rd division between SV Meppen and Viktoria Köln.
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