Roland Frischkorn has been chairman of the Frankfurt sports district, the umbrella organization for 420 clubs, since 2000.

The sports circle itself opens up sports offers and supports the clubs, but also unorganized sports such as basketball players in the harbor park or the soccer field league.

Until next Thursday, a good 75 Frankfurt clubs will take part in the European Sports Week organized by the sports group.

In all parts of the city there are diverse sports offers for all age groups and opportunities to get to know the clubs from large clubs such as TG Bornheim to small savings offers and sports from children's gymnastics to trial martial arts training, from darts to football to fencing or even figure skating at Maccabi Frankfurt to learn.

The entire program can be found at www.beactive-frankfurt.de.

Daniel Meuren

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Mr. Frischkorn, even if you are a Eintracht fan, your heart will probably open when you see Emre Can play at Borussia Dortmund, right?

When Eintracht plays against Dortmund, I already know who my heart beats for ... But of course: Emre Can is a beautiful example for us as the Frankfurt Sportkreis, which unites so much of what we stand for and what we can initiate.

Back then, a father came to a popular sports festival in Gallus with a five-year-old boy who wanted to try it out.

He then goes to a football club and develops.

Today we see what became of it.

A Frankfurt international - who unfortunately does not play for Eintracht.

Wouldn't it have become that without the popular sports festival?

At least to this day, his family has not forgotten how it all began.

For example, Emre wanted to go to the New Year's reception of his first club, blue and yellow, but he couldn't at short notice.

Then his father came and apologized.

Is such a shining example as Emre Can important if the sports group is concerned with popular sport, as it is now in the European Week of Sport?

There is this view in sport that popular sport has nothing to do with competitive sport; this is particularly pronounced in football.

But that is just as wrong as socially stereotyped thinking.

Society always has many components, and so does sport.

On the one hand, this is what defines the diversity.

But it also defines the different strengths and sometimes also weaknesses.

And that's why, since I've been in this position, I've been an advocate of the view of defining and seeing sport with my arms wide open.

It all belongs together.

How does that show up in the sports group?

For example in the soccer field league, which is under the umbrella of the sports group.

Or in cooperation with free, independent scenes such as calisthenics in the harbor park or the ECB basketball players who want to become a project of the sports group.

And of course we also talk to commercial providers such as fitness studios, especially when we want to articulate common interests, as in the corona pandemic with its severe restrictions on sport.

As the Frankfurt Sports District, we have the philosophy of representing the interests of the clubs.

But also advocate of sport.

What is the point of being open to competitors at a time when your member clubs fear for their clientele and their status?