When football fans talk about games in the "we" form, they like to be smiled at.

"We won the European Cup", "We made it": These and similar sentences have probably been said a thousand times since the cup victory.

But is that really true?

Didn't the good dozen players and the coaching team actually win the Europa League?

Anyone who narrows the triumph of the Frankfurt footballers to the sporting aspect alone has not understood what has happened in the past few months and is misinterpreting the magic of harmony.

Because the club, the team and the supporters in the entire Rhine-Main region have formed an unshakable unit in recent months, from which the energy and power that it takes to climb the football throne, on which the club is now, emerged located.

The viewers thank you

In times when football is becoming more and more show business and threatens to decouple itself from the base with salaries in the millions, Eintracht has managed to stay close to its supporters even during the Corona crisis and to remain down-to-earth even in times of success not to lose.

The spectators thanked them by remaining loyal to their club despite their mediocre performances in the Bundesliga, by making home games on the international stage on public holidays and away games as dream trips similar to class trips.

The images of 35,000 Hessians at the quarter-finals in Barcelona and the seething Waldstadion in the semi-finals against West Ham will be burned into every fan's heart.

For Frankfurt and Rhein-Main, this unity is more than a successful football club in a fancy stadium.

Eintracht is increasingly becoming an image bearer, an identity-creating link of an entire region, in which the city finds expression in its colorfulness and internationality (as Vice President Stefan Minden also expressed before the final).

The fact that Sebastian Rode, born in Seeheim-Jugenheim, a child from the region, lifted the European Cup into the Andalusian night sky yesterday is further proof that the club has strong roots in Rhein-Main, despite players from all over the world.

How strong these roots are was shown just before the final when Eintracht exceeded 100,000 members.

After the triumph in Seville, the euphoria opens up new opportunities for the club to establish itself among the best football clubs in Germany.

Staying close to the grassroots during this climb will continue to be a challenge for management.

But first, you have to just enjoy it all.

And to say with confidence: We made it.

We are unity.