Fan Award reinforces Liverpool and Dortmund’s special bond

• Liverpool and Dortmund were awarded a initial FIFA Fan Award in 2016




• The clubs were recognized for their corner reverence to victims of a Hillsborough disaster




• Club officials simulate on a certain impact of a accolade

Last year’s initial FIFA Fan Award saw supporters of Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund share a initial book of a accolade. Ahead of their UEFA Europa League compare during Anfield in Apr 2016, a dual sets of fans sang a Reds’ unaccepted anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone” together to remember Hillsborough victims on a eve of a 27th anniversary of a disaster.

Before a endowment is presented for a second time during a arriving The Best FIFA Football Awardsâ„¢ in London on 23 October, FIFA.com held adult with a member of both teams who attended a initial rite in Zurich to find out what a fame meant to them and a outcome it has had on their clubs.

Congratulations, @LFC @BVB!
Winners of a FIFA Fan Award #TheBest https://t.co/LO8lWBKxpn pic.twitter.com/dqVJkMAfJp

— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) January 9, 2017

“This was a initial time that FIFA’s recognized a critical purpose that football fans play in a game. It was a good honour for Liverpool to be nominated alongside Borussia Dortmund for a FIFA Fan Award,” pronounced Susan Black, Liverpool’s executive of communications. “At a eventuality in Zurich both clubs concluded that should we be comparison as a winner, a endowment would be dedicated to a 96 victims who mislaid their lives during Hillsborough. It was a relocating impulse when we were both announced as a endowment winners.”

“It was really good perceived within a club,” removed Torsten Schild, authority of a BVB Supporters Association, when asked about a club’s nomination. “We were gay to be nominated, and it felt really wise to dedicate a endowment to a 96. As good as singing together before a compare itself, there were dual days of events in a run-up to a game. The people that helped all this occur were gay to be recognized in this way. we consider it’s illusory that there’s an endowment for supporters.”

The clubs are equally gratified that football fans can now count themselves among The Best a pleasing diversion has to offer – and not usually by receiving a Fan Award, though also by personification a purpose in a voting process. “It’s usually right that a voices of supporters are heard,” Black said. “Fans are such a large partial of any bar and a voting routine for this endowment was really straightforward, so it was easy for fans to have their say.”

With former BVB manager Jurgen Klopp now in assign during Liverpool, and with both sets of fans already holding anniversary events to applaud Dortmund’s 2-1 feat over a Reds in a 1966 European Cup Winners’ Cup final, a dual clubs already common a clever bond, though their latest fame has still had an enlivening impact, as Schild explained.

“Since a Fan Award, a couple between a supporters and officials has turn even stronger,” he said. “After a Borussia Dortmund group train was pounded [last spring], we immediately started removing emails to ask how we were doing.”

Meanwhile Black is anticipating for another rival assembly between a dual teams this season. “Both clubs are in a Champions League this year so there’s a possibility we’ll play any other again,” Black said. “There will always be a special attribute between us and Borussia Dortmund.”

Schild believes a FIFA Fan Award was “a win for everybody” and that a other dual shortlisted possibilities also deserved recognition. “What a Icelandic fans did via a whole [EURO 2016] contest was positively fantastic, and Den Haag’s teddy bear thought was a really absolute gesticulate too,” he said. “All of a nominees spent dual days together in Zurich and got on intensely well.”

After all, that is what football, and a FIFA Fan Award in particular, is all about.

OFFICIAL RESULTS: Here’s a relapse of a voting for #TheBest FIFA Fan Award 2016https://t.co/LO8lWBKxpn pic.twitter.com/IN5qW8mPxO

— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) January 9, 2017

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