Werder Bremen organises national Walking Football event

29 November 2017

Werder Bremen organises national Walking Football event

On Friday 1st of December, SV Werder Bremen will host their national Walking Football event. 

The two day national European Legends event consists of a seminar and tournament following the purpose of promoting the final project results of the European Legends Walking Football programme and the Walking Football and Walking Sports methodology.

klein_EFDN_1909_Raats-3942During the past weeks, events took already place in Belgium at Club Brugge, Benfica in Portugal, at Valerenga Fotball in Oslo and Tottenham Hotspur in the United Kingdom.
At this weeks event in Bremen, several national and European teams have been invited to participate in the activities on 1st and 2nd of December. Among others professional football clubs from Germany, the Netherlands and grassroots football clubs will be in attendance.

In order to broaden the successful Walking Football and Sports methodology, which in Germany only recently evolved, the event will be announced in the weekly Newsletter that reaches more than 37.000 club members. Next to that the Fussball Landesverband will communicate the seminar and tournament with the goal of broadening the methodology.
Everyone is welcome to visit the event.

On Friday the event will include a welcoming speech that will be given by club president Hubertus Hess-Grunewald. Afterwards, all participating teams will have the opportunity to take part in a stadium.

The stadium visit will be followed by an informative Walking Football presentation and a panel discussion.

On Saturday, the Walking Football tournament will take place in the Klaus-Dieter Fischer football hall of Werder Bremen. After the end of the tournament all teams that participated in the event will go together to see the SV Werder Bremen- VfB Stuttgart match.

Programme National Walking Football Event, Werder Bremen