On Saturday in a place designated as Battle of Chicago friendship between Germany and Poland held in the hand ball. The Event is part of the strategy of the U.S. Handball Association, the sport on the radar screen to push. Behind this is above all a man: an indecent German emigrant, who strives for a while so interested to Americans for a game that they do not know. Chicago was chosen as the venue also because it is next to a very significant community of Polish-born inhabitants (some scoff that she was the second largest Polish city after Warsaw), many people with German roots. I did last fall just before the decision to award the 2016 Olympic Games - as including Chicago in the race and was seen by many as safer winner was projected - spoken with the President and wrote about him and his efforts in the FAZ . Because the text has disappeared behind the pay curtain of the archive, I make him talk accessible.
Last Friday, the President of the American Handball Association hinted that he's pretty good network. "Barack Obama himself will be there," he said, taking it that the highly political message for a few days in advance, which was only earlier this week officially announced: The man from the White House, his authority will throw into the mix in order the IOC Congress on 2 October in Copenhagen Summer Games 2016 awards in Chicago. The
a president knows the world and to trust him that he was in Denmark with his charisma makes sure that his hometown gets the hoped-for contract. The name of the other presidents have to get used yet. His name is Horst-Dieter Esch, and has taken a comparatively much difficult task: He wants a team sport, which leads into the U.S. as a poor relation of the modern pentathlon, pushing with all his strength into the spotlight.
ash is 66 years old and an entrepreneur, which is known in the United States only this: that he came into the country twenty years ago and bought the New York modeling agency Wilhelmina, which now is also active in sports management and is emerging as golfer Sandra Gal of Leicester and the famous swing doctor David Leadbetter under contract.
An award the Games to Chicago would facilitate this objective it set itself enormous. For each host country is allowed to occupy at the Olympic Games, all team competitions with a team and is therefore qualified automatically. "Hand ball it would be nice," said Esch, before he followed Obama to Denmark still operate one last bit of lobbying. In that country, had placed in the more than a hundred years a teacher and officer of the first rules for the game.
is networking at all levels for the former goalkeeper of the field handball team of TV vineyard near Lake Constance, the A and O. For although the game purely superficial interest of most Americans on sports meets - there are many gates, the athletes are strong and go hard to the point - there for the sport on the road to greater audience to overcome many hurdles everywhere. This starts with the nomenclature. In a country where football is called a sport, although it is operated mainly by hand, the concept has created some confusion. For thus officially a once very popular recreational game is called with a rubber ball the size of a tennis ball on the asphalt surfaces on the walls of houses in the large cities at home and is so similar works like squash without the rackets. It had once brought Irish immigrants.
Esch's game in its last details the early 20th century in Germany and was developed in Europe since the change in the hall millions of enthusiastic Americans call therefore helpless "Team Handball". The concept of difference is a trade mark poorly communicated. But that is only part of the Crux. Problems like these can probably be easily overcome, would the discipline initially established at all schools and colleges. The educational institutes that is the backbone of organized sports operation in the U.S.: they have the venues and training facilities, the coaches and the money to competitions unsubscribe. Esch opened because in the first months in office, many doors of the universities in order to come closer to its goal of recruiting 100 000 young players who are not like football or basketball in the sport for the course populares. "This is in stark contrast to what was there before. Previously, we had only the Miltärakademien at West Point and Colorado Springs. "Outside the College World Movement came into the program. "When we started a year ago, we had 23 sets of clubs," said Esch. "Today we have 106th"
Association Intern had the new man but as an outsider without proper sporting references from beginning to overcome many a barrage. The reason for this was not only the history of the eighties of the six and a half year prison sentence for fraud and wrongful, but also inconsistencies in relation to a company called Wilhelmina Scouting Network, which were also brought before the court. Such pressure points in the biographical fabric produced in particular in the Internet forum "Team Handball News" disturbing. For the U.S. Handball Association has collected a bad experience with his managers. The organization went bankrupt years ago and was the American NOK in Colorado Springs pro forma, but continued without any initiative.
With the arrival of Ash, who moved the office of the Association at his private residence in Park City in the State of Utah, the Federation has been put back on their feet and has a budget of around one million dollars per year. To boost the operation, many new initiatives. This includes the partnership with the club win the Handball Bundesliga, but also those advertising gimmicks such as a raffle for new members, the free airline tickets.
The basic work continues. Including inter alia, the recruitment of willing advertisers and donors. The ultimate goal is a professional league to in this way on the radar screen the public interested in sport to arrive. Young talent collects the association with so-called try-outs in the centers of large cities, that is, where the American Basketball enthusiasm is anchored. "We do not need spectacular handball courts," says Ash, "we just need a door painted on the wall. And you can do with it. "
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