Erinnerungsspiel an den „Weihnachtsfrieden“ 1914: UK-Deutschland 1:0

Game of Truce between British Army & Bundeswehr

Ob das legendäre Fußballspiel zwischen deutschen und britischen Soldaten im Jahr 1914 während des Weihnachtsfriedens an der Westfront des 1. Weltkrieges, tatsächlich stattgefunden hat – historisch belegt ist das nicht. Dennoch wird die Erinnerung an diese Versöhnung zwischen den Schützengräben hoch gehalten. Zum Beispiel bei einem Fußballspiel deutscher und britischer Soldaten am (gestrigen) Mittwochabend in Aldershot. Die Briten gewannen übrigens 1:0.

Den (Spiel)Bericht des britischen Guardian gibt es hier: Christmas truce: a mythical football match revisited 100 years later

Aus der Pressemitteilung der britischen Streitkräfte:

In honour of the 1914 Christmas Truce and the game of football that is reputed to have taken place in no-man’s- land, the British Army’s Football Team will again take on their German counterparts in a commemorative match called ‘The Game of Truce’; kick-off at 7:30pm Wednesday 17th December.
In a collaborative venture between the Football Association, the Army and Aldershot Town Football Club the game will fittingly take place in Aldershot Town FC’s ES Stadium in the very heart of the ‘Home of the British Army’ – Aldershot. The match will be the culmination of the FA’s ‘Football Remembers ’ in which players, staff and fans have been encouraged to pay their respects and commemorate those who swapped football boots for Army boots 100 years ago.
It is expected to be an extremely competitive game between two evenly matched military teams. High profile guests will include FA Chairman Greg Dyke, Head of the Army General Sir Nicholas Carter and a number of footballs personalities past and present.

(Foto: Team Captains, in red, Sgt Keith Emmerson aged 31, from Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC), from Co. Durham, and in blue, Master Sgt Alexander Hess, aged 27, from the Guards Battalion based in Berlin – British Army/Crown Copyright 2014/Mod News License)