Sport

A sports association (or sports club or sports club) is an association whose aim is to allow access to surfaces (e.g., football fields or gymnasiums or gymnasiums) and sports devices (e.g., ingot and horizontal bar in the gymnastics) in the sport to eager people. Sports associations are organised according to the offered sports in sports associations. These offer to the associations the participation in organised competitions in the form of tournaments or league company.

A sports association, as we understood, is a very important component in sports life, because thanks to its activity, young people and not only, have access to both an inventory and the organization of competitions. If the information below doesn't satisfy your interest on this topic, please contact 123helpme.

Table of contents [concealment]
1 origin of the sports associations
1.1 Sports associations in the GDR
2 fan cultures
3 web links
4 See also
Origin of the sports associations [treatment]

The origin of sports associations is connected with the association education spreading at the beginning of the 19th century, especially from patriotically straightened gymnastics clubs and physical education associations. In Napoleonic occupied Germany nationwide straightened young men assembled under the spiritual fatherhood Friedrich Ludwig Jahns to exercises in “gymnastics clubs”, the outwardly sociable, inwards a subversive-paramilitary character carried. Oldest (still existing) sports association of Germany is the gymnastics club and sports association TSV 1814 Friedland according to own information.
Sports associations in the GDR [treatment]
In the GDR there were no sports associations in the customary sense, because the popular sport or leisure sport and the serious sport were strictly separated of each other. The popular sport was exercised mostly in sports communities – company sport communities (BSG), army sport communities (ASG), university sport communities (HSG)–. However, the serious sport was organised in so-called sections (in army sport clubs also as sports teams called) who looked in each case only after one single sport and as a rule to the sports clubs (isolates also sports communities) assigned were present (the football sections acted since middle of the sixties as independent sports clubs, see football club). The membership in a sports club could be attained only on the basis of Delegierungen which were strictly bound to the achievement principle in the cadre system of the GDR sport. An admission of sports-propelling at own wish was not possible.
Fan culture [treatment]

While fans of national teams stand mostly from patriotism „to her“ team, the reason or the cause is to be looked for the enthusiasm of the fans by sports associations more individually. Friends or relatives with the same passion are often the reason for an association choice, often one will exist fan of the association of the natal region or the place of residence, but it numerous reasons, why one has decided on “his” association. English author Nick Hornby formulated it in such a way: „Few of us have selected to themselves her clubs, they were given us simply.“