DFL hands over trophy
The DFL is thinking ahead: On Saturday Christian Seifert and Tom Bender travel to Stuttgart; Christian Müller und Holger Hieronymus will be at Schalke.
Christian Seifert, the chairman of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH, will be in Stuttgart next Saturday with the original league trophy where Stuttgart have the chance to clinch only their third championship. Also present will be the Stuttgart legend Guido Buchwald and and DFL Marketing and Communication manager Tom Bender.
Hieronymus and Müller in Gelsenkirchen
Should Schalke clinch their first Bundesliga championship, they will be presented with a copy of the trophy by the vice president of the DFL, Holger Hieronymus and the DFL`s head of finance, Christian Müller. Also present will be Schalke`s goalkeeping Idol und fans favourite - Klaus Fischer.
"With the legends we want to underline the Bundesliga`s tradition. Players such as Klaus Fischer and Guido Buchwald are legends of the game here in Germany and have contributed greatly to our game", explained Holger Hieronymus.
Trophy since 1949
Since 1949 the trophy has been presented to the winners of the league in Germany. It is a replacement for the Viktoria trophy
which has been missing since the war. The current trophy weighs eleven kilograms and is 53 centermeters wide and has a value of 50.000 Euro. All of the league winners names since 1903 are engraved on it.
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