FC Adler Ludwigshafen
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| FC Adler Ludwigshafen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | FC Adler Ludwigshafen 2000 n.e.V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Die Adler (the Eagles) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | August 16th, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Adlerhorst (stadium), Oggersheim, Ludwigshafen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | ~500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  C.Damian |
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| Manager | ManagerD.Ruf |
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| League | Bierliga Ludwigshafen (suspended) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Adler is a recreational German football club in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
A group of students from Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium Ludwigshafen founded the team, but now most of them are approaching the end of their university/college days and several new members have joined the squad.
Its designation as a "club" –a dmittedly only an "n.e.V" (nicht eingetragener Verein or non-registered club) stems from the founding member's typically German enthusiasm for superflous and excessive bureaucracy and therefore the club is much better organized in its administration than on the pitch.
Although only very few members have experience in on a "real" football team, the squad has improved dramatically in the last years and thereby it proves that (modest) success in football and a lot of fun on (and off) the pitch is possible even without belonging to any official football organisations. This is the main idea and motto behind the FC Adler.
[edit] Club Structure and Politics
Although there are some apparently democratic elements in the club´s Satzung (constitution), the Adler´s form of government is an authoritarian presidential regime. The president has to be elected each summer, but during his term of office, he is nearly omnipotent.
There are four political “parties” in the club, the left-wing STP (Sozial-Tolerante Partei) under Matthias Klinger, the moderate leftitst/liberal LU (Liberale Union) under David Ruf, the bourgeois/conservative SAP (Stefans AdlerPartei) under Stefan Zick and the right-wing/VERY conservative KAF (Konservative AdlerFront) under Josip Bartulovic.
Of these four organisations, only LU and KAF are of political significance, the other two being only splinter parties. The LU party programme has been a mixture of expansion by including new members and (moderate) democratization by conceding more rights to the general meeting. David Ruf (LU) has been president for three years (2001-2004), being altogether popular, but failing in his larger scheme of creating a more professional squad by including new good players. Josip Bartulovic (KAF) had been the club´s first president (2000-2001). He founded the KAF in 2002 as opposition to President Ruf´s expansionistic policy, because the KAF´s programme aimed at confining membership to the “Old Eagles”, disdaining the newcomers and advocating a more authoritarian administration. Josip succeeeded Ruf in office in 2004, but at this point, both main parties had concluded a certain rapprochement in their views, with Ruf abandoning his expansionistic ideas and Bartulovic realizing that governing the heterogenous team by decrees and authoritarian leadership had its limits. From then on, the main political figures of both LU and KAF cooperated in a ”ministry of all talents”, with Christian Damian (KAF) suceeding Bartulovic as president in 2006.
[edit] “Stadium”
The Adlerhorst is a mere playground meadow with two small goals, embedded in the Stadtpark Oggersheim (municipal park) in Ludwigshafen´s West.
Its capacity is only assessable as about 500 spectators, But the overall record was a mere twelve spectators at the first anniversary match in September 2001.
Extremely muddy ground, goals without cross-bars and numerous molehills are further characteristics of the Adlerhorst.
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