The phenomenon of matches in the German Football League continued to stop during the end of this week due to the protest of the fans over Dimitar Hop, Hoffenheim's largest investor.
Today, play stopped in the match between Union Berlin and Wolfsburg because the fans raised banners that were offensive to a flame, and for the same reason yesterday, Hoffenheim's matches with Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund with Freiburg, and Cologne with Schalke stopped.
The Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich match witnessed the strangest events, as it stopped on two occasions due to the lifting of the banners banning the flames of the Bayern fans, and the Bavarian club players and a number of its officials tried to persuade the fans to remove the banner and official threats were transmitted through the loudspeakers, considering Bayern loser because of these events despite his progress in the game by six Clean.
After the players returned to the match in the 77th minute, they protested, in their way, to the attitude of the fans, and chose to transfer balls between them until the referee announced the end of the match.
Hope, 79, became the target of some fans who opposed his use of his fortune to help Hoffenheim progressively move up from the lowest levels until reaching the League of Lights a decade ago.
Many league fans (Bundesliga) believe that their clubs have certain traditions, and Hoop accused the SAP software company of destroying Hoffenheim's traditions just like the energy drink company Red Bull, which dominated the traditions of Leipzig.
In 2014, this investor obtained an exemption from the "50 + 1" law, which requires that 51% of the club's shares be owned by club members, which prevents one person from acquiring the club. And his great assistance to the team at the amateur and professional level.
Hope stressed that he did not know the secret of hatred held by a number of fans, and said, "I do not want to talk to these people because it is useless, they live in another world." absence.
All clubs distanced themselves from the behavior of the fans, and a spokesman for the Federation confirmed that the Discipline Committee would open an investigation amid increasing calls to implement strict penalties against the hostile behavior of the fans of the guest team, for a hop person.