We managed to organise a Trip to Frankfurt to play Eintracht Frankfurt. On Friday 3rd of May, Corinthian-Casuals made their way to Frankfurt to play 2 Eintracht teams in 4 matches. Two were played using Surrey FA rules and two using the German rules. Those are different as they don't have a goalie and the goals are 3 feet high and around 10 feet wide. Shooting is only allowed inside the oppositions half.
To make the games fair, we met up with most of the opposition on Friday evening for the social part of the trip and to ensure they had as much to drink as we did.
Eintracht kindly covered our visit on their website, hope you remember your A-level German
To make the games fair, we met up with most of the opposition on Friday evening for the social part of the trip and to ensure they had as much to drink as we did.
Eintracht kindly covered our visit on their website, hope you remember your A-level German
On Saturday we played at Eintracht Frankfurt's old ground, the "Riederwald" which is now their Youth Development Centre. There we enjoyed the cleanest dressing room that our team has ever seen.
Games lasted 15 minutes and we played Eintracht's Black and Red team followed by their Black team in Surrey FA Rules. They they played each other using the German rules so we could get an idea.
Games lasted 15 minutes and we played Eintracht's Black and Red team followed by their Black team in Surrey FA Rules. They they played each other using the German rules so we could get an idea.
After the final whistle, one of the German players, Reinhard, who celebrated his first match for Eintracht, presented 2 crates of fine German beer which is a tradition over there. Warm or not, everyone enjoyed the beer and both teams mingled and analysed the previous matches much better than any Sky or TNT reporter or pundit could ever do.
On the Sunday, they had kindly managed to get us tickets for the Bundesliga match Eintracht Frankfurt v Bayer Leverkusen. The opposition had only been crowned German Champion the weekend before. We enjoyed the atmosphere despite Eintracht struggling and getting an almost deserved 1-5 drubbing.
It would have ended very well if it hadn't been for a Blatantly Awful Airline who cancelled our return flight 5 hours before we were due to come home and 7 of us had to stay an extra night (compensation and expense claim pending at time of publishing).
