Forget the team, here comes das Team! 🙂 For the 2016 season I was able to get the official FC St. Pauli blind football team photo in the box. And also the individual portraits, which are in beloved style Inclusive version were set to music by trainer Wolf Schmidt. I have this wonderful honor the good performance I have to thank the 1st Women, because on the sidelines of the photo shoot I heard that when I take team photos, these teams are doing well in the season. The first women are ultimately champions. Even the first gentlemen came 1th...
A photo session with the blind footballers is always a special pleasure for me. This time it was particularly emotional for me because right at the beginning I was presented with the official team jacket: with the club logo and name abbreviation.
While taking the team photo of FC St. Pauli Blindenfussball was a fairly quick process, I quickly reached my limits when taking portraits. All the signs and words I had prepared for portraits were suddenly completely useless. The simplest example: I usually show the people in front of the camera which direction they should turn their faces. Words like "left" are often confusing because the person in front of the camera might think for themselves and then turn to my left. Signs are clearer, so I usually stand behind the camera and indicate directions with my fingers. Thinking for myself and changing my mind was easy. But then I caught myself saying to a striker: "Look determined, as if you were standing with the ball just in front of the goalkeeper and were going to hammer the ball under the crossbar." My goodness, how stupid can I be. Fortunately, the players have known me long enough to forgive me for such faux pas.
That's probably why I like being with the blind football team so much: things are suddenly no longer taken for granted. It grounds me, gives me new perspectives. And what any supposedly normal person would see as a loss turns out to be no loss at all. The talents suddenly lie in a different field. That's why I don't like the term "sports for the disabled". Anyone who has ever watched these people practice their sport knows what each and every one of the team achieves. I don't even have to put on dark glasses to see that. In any case, it has nothing to do with "disability"!
Attentive pursuers of mine Project 366 certainly already have the analog photographed, black and white version of the team photo discovered 🙂
Oh yes: the first success of the new season actually came, because on the first Bundesliga matchday my team in brown and white won for the first time in league play against the series champions from Stuttgart 2:1. And this weekend Jonathan is attending a training course for the national blind football team for the first time. This means that there are now 3 national players (Serdal, Rasmus and Jonathan) in the FC St. Pauli blind football squad. But none of this has anything to do with my team photo...
Beautiful, Stefan! Touched my heart.