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Vuvuzelas may be a football fan craze in South Africa but the noisy instruments are not welcome in Europe. Austrian club Wiener Neustadt were denied the use of the vuvuzela in a match scheduled for later Friday by the football league.
German Bundesliga club Cologne has said it will not allow the 10,000 vuvuzelas an advertising company wants to distribute for an August league match against champions Wolfsburg.
The German website vuvuzelas.org said on Friday that 100,000 fans have signed its petition “Ban Vuvuzelas – Keep the Spirit!” since it was initiated on June 20. The petition is to be sent to the ruling body FIFA, the European federation UEFA and the German body DFB.
“We do not want to change anyone’s culture or traditions! But in our opinion, blowing vuvuzelas for 90 minutes is unsportsmanlike, like jeering each time an opposing team touches the ball,” said the petition organizers Stefan Watzinger and Bastian Froehlig.
“We want football with passion and creativity – on the ground and in the stadium.”
The incessant drone of the instrument caused controversy at last month’s Confederations Cup in South Africa, with broadcasters and players such as Xabi Alonso and Robinho voicing their opposition.
But FIFA boss Joseph Blatter insisted that his body will not impose a ban on an instrument which is an important part of South Africa’s heritage and of its football culture.
“It’s a local sound and I don’t know how it is possible to stop it. I always said that when we go to South Africa, it is Africa. It’s not western Europe. It’s noisy, it’s energy, rhythm, music, dance, drums. This is Africa. We have to adapt a little,” Blatter said.
A FIFA spokesman reiterated on Friday that FIFA has no plan to outlaw the instrument at the World Cup.
South Africa has now gone a step further and introduced the kuduzela, also a wind instrument which is shaped like a kudu horn, which is due to compete for decibels with the vuzuvela in 2010.
But just as South Africans were upset about the criticism of the instrument, at least Austrians and Germans don’t want their football atmosphere changed by the vuvuzela.
Wiener Neustadt had aimed to distribute 150 vuvuzelas among their fans for Friday’s match with Austria Kaernten. But the league would have none of it and outlawed the instruments in Austria’s stadiums, stating safety concerns.
“Vuvuzelas could be be used as projectiles. They can also cause aggression by other fans,” said league spokesman Christian Kirchner.
The situation is similar in Cologne. The city may be famous for its noisy carnival season where everything goes, but is drawing a clear line as far as vuvuzelas in its stadium is concerned.
Club manager Michael Meier said Cologne is ready to prohibit fans from bringing the vuvuzela into the stadium. Cologne fan Rainer Mendel said that “we have such a good atmosphere that we don’t need these things.”
The Koeln.de website wondered “Will vuvuzelas soon blow our Cologne fan songs away?” and Bavarian daily Augsburger Allgemeine went one step further on Thursday by asking “Will vuvuzelas destroy the football fan culture.”
The fan petition on vuvuzelas.org is based on these concerns but so far the football league DFL in Germany has not intervened.
“We will watch how it develops when the league starts,” the Bild daily quoted DFL managing director Holger Hieronymus as saying.
Quelle: Earth Times
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/277918,no-vuvuzelas-please–we-are-european–feature.html
