Schwerin Walking Footballers Are Still On The Ball After A Year

For a year now, the members of the walking football department of FC Mecklenburg Schwerin have been meeting for a leisurely kick. The desire for it remains unbroken.

It is always fuller in one of the changing rooms in the aged sports hall, a little off Johannes-Brahms-Straße in Schwerin’s west town. It’s Monday. And as always on this weekday, more than a dozen kickers have been meeting since February last year to keep fit with the calm football game.

But that evening is a try. Hartmut Rother has several bags full of jerseys and Reinhold Berteit has a piece of paper with the names of all 16 kickers in his hand. „ Here is the number 4 “, says Rother and passes on the sportswear. At the Christmas party in December, they have already looked at the uniform Qutfit, Today the older men put on the dark blue jerseys with FCM emblem, pants and socks for the first time. „ Fits “, says Ronny Schmidt, the youngest in the group at 56. Arno Pommerenke also fits his set. At 83, he is the oldest in the department…

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