FC St. Pauli is a football club unlike any other. Encompassing music,
sport and politics, its fans welcome refugees, fight fascists and take a
stand against all forms of discrimination.
This book goes
behind the skull and crossbones emblem to tell the story of a football
club rewriting the rulebook. Since the club's beginnings in Hamburg's
red-light district, the chants, banners and atmosphere of the stadium
have been dictated by the politics of the streets. Promotions are
celebrated and relegations commiserated alongside social struggles,
workers' protests and resistance to Nazism.
In recent years,
people have flocked from all over the world to join the Black Bloc in
the stands of the Millerntor Stadium and while in the 1980s the club had
a small DIY punk following, now there are almost 30,000 in attendance
at games with supporters across the world. In a sporting landscape
governed by corporate capitalism, driven by revenue and divorced from
community, FC St. Pauli demonstrate that another football is possible.
St. Pauli : Another Football is Possible - Carles Vinas, Natxo Parra & Deniz Naki
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