Justus Peltzer
Control of Football Supporters before World Cup in Germany
Before World Cup 2006 in Germany times for active football supporters are getting harder. The police in cooperation with private security firms control the supporters in many ways: There are video controls in and around the stadiums and on the way to away games. You have stadium bans, which the clubs speak out in cooperation with the police for lots of active supporters for indifferent topics like fixing a sticker on the stadium. The ZIS (Zentrale Informationsstelle Sporteinsätze) has the "Datei Gewalttäter Sport", which is in fact for hooligans, but in the last years the number of "normal" supporters written down in this data set for prevention has increased. Registered Persons won`t be informed about an entry, which is highly problematic. At the moment there are about 7,000 entries in this data file. The tickets for the World Cup will be equipped with RFID-chips, So that they can be located in the whole stadium. Moreover, security firms always know where certain persons are as the tickets are (additionally) personalized. In the active fan-scene there is an indisposition against the World Cup because lots of these measures are already realized every weekend in the Bundesliga.
Justus Peltzer (Bremen) is speaker of 
Bündnis Aktiver Fußballfans (BAFF) [Alliance of Active Football Fans]. BAFF is consisting of around 200 supporting organizations (ISAs, fanzines, projects, fan clubs, etc.) and individual members. BAFF sees itself as part of a movement of football fans with clearly defined interests that is demanding its rights. Peltzer is a 27-years-old trained sociologist (Dipl.-Soz.) who works as social worker with migrant youth in Bremen. He wrote his diploma about Neue Formen der sozialen Kontrolle bei Fußballfans. Furthermore he wrote an article about a new form of football supporters: "The Ultras", forthcoming in: Jugendszenen.
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