Dusseldorf You have decided to crack the “last male bastion”: German professional football. In July, five German top managers and entrepreneurs took over the women’s team of the Berlin club FC Viktoria 1889 together with the former German international Ariane Hingst.
Their goal: promotion from the regional league to the first federal league. The team aims to prove that women’s football can be just as attractive and lucrative as men’s.
The spin-off is now followed by the second step: Viktoria’s women’s team has received wide approval from business and society. Bring according to information from the Handelsblatt 87 investors invested around one million euros in capital. The new shirt sponsors are the career platform Stepstone and the perfumery group Douglas. The multiple European and world swimming champion Franziska van Almsick is a member of the supervisory board.
Read on now
Get access to this and every other article in the
Web and in our app free of charge for 4 weeks.
Continue
Read on now
Get access to this and every other article in the
Web and in our app free of charge for 4 weeks.
Continue