Speaker 1: I wish I had like a drum roll or something,
Speaker 1: but I don't have a drum roll ready, and then
Speaker 1: I'd have to jack up the volume. It's time to
Speaker 1: talk about something really really cool between KSA and SBBGG
Speaker 1: ruther Firth in in the Bundesliga. So we bring in
Speaker 1: kareem to Mimi of KSA. We bring in Timo.
Speaker 2: Sheeler of ruther Firth. I'm gonna fix the shot. There
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 1: So gentlemen, Hi, and welcome on a Friday. The chaos
Speaker 1: has already started.
Speaker 3: Hi, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: All right, So, uh, this is a really cool relationship
Speaker 1: and I'm going to start with with Timo, considering you
Speaker 1: have been the one who has.
Speaker 2: Traveled the farthest here.
Speaker 1: How did this relationship with ruther Firth and KSA come
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 2: What was the first conversations?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: Well, it started with the mutual passion for using football
Speaker 5: more than just a gab, you know, as a way
Speaker 5: to teach values and open doors for young people playing soccer.
Speaker 4: And when we were introduced to Colunty Soccer Academy, it
Speaker 4: was immediately clear that they are doing something real special
Speaker 4: over here in Atlanta because they are working developing not
Speaker 4: only young players, of young people, you know, and giving
Speaker 4: them discipline, respect and ambition and met aligned perfectly without
Speaker 4: club philosophy in Germany of the sweet run in Row First.
Speaker 1: So kareem, how far back are we talking? How far
Speaker 1: back do we know that these conversations started to get
Speaker 1: to this point to where we are with Ruth First
Speaker 1: and ks.
Speaker 6: It's been really recent, you know, it's been about a
Speaker 6: few months as I've been also nominated as one of
Speaker 6: the director of the program here in Georgia.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's pretty recent.
Speaker 2: And so what is it? What was kream? What was
Speaker 2: the first date? Like? What was what were those first conversations?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Was it long? Over? Was it over?
Speaker 5: Zoom?
Speaker 1: Was was it conversations? Was it meals breaking bread? What
Speaker 1: was what was what was the first date?
Speaker 2: Like with you two?
Speaker 7: So to be honest, Scotch Bruno the owner of KSA.
Speaker 6: He is the one who was in relation with mister Lynch, right,
Speaker 6: So mister Lynch was working with with Firth and he
Speaker 6: was taking care of one of the ks players that
Speaker 6: was in Germany, Fraser his name, and Fraser wanted listen
Speaker 6: to mister Lynch if you need anything in Atlanta. I
Speaker 6: know a great club there And the coincidence was that
Speaker 6: Firth and mister Lynch were working with Hoffmann. So Offman
Speaker 6: is the company that is here in Atlanta, and they
Speaker 6: made the link. Mister Robin came about two months ago.
Speaker 6: He saw how we were working, how we're you know,
Speaker 6: educating the kids. The intensity of practice KSA is really
Speaker 6: close to the European style, the European mentality that we
Speaker 6: really trying in Cooke here in American soccer. And then
Speaker 6: after that it was really natural to link our passion
Speaker 6: and really the the ambition to create a path for
Speaker 6: the players from America to Europe.
Speaker 1: Timo Schieler from SBVGG grew through birth and kareem to
Speaker 1: me me from KSA hanging out with It's your Batton
Speaker 1: leadoff on the morning show. So, Timo, when when you
Speaker 1: came across this relationship with KSA to begin with, what
Speaker 1: has it been like to see that the that the
Speaker 1: relationship can grow over the ocean, that they can be
Speaker 1: this mutual thing where okay, you have your philosophy, we
Speaker 1: have ours.
Speaker 2: It meshes.
Speaker 1: What's it like to see that kind of a relationship
Speaker 1: and that kind of kindred spirit well, you know.
Speaker 4: As Kareem said, it didn't require a long discussion in
Speaker 4: our club when we started thinking about that, because from
Speaker 4: the first in the action, it fell right and it
Speaker 4: feld it was the right thing to do. And we
Speaker 4: saw the the.
Speaker 3: And thin a tegrity behind KSA's work, and we knew that.
Speaker 4: The kind of partner we researched for it, we want it.
Speaker 4: And also thanks to the support of Postmon which is
Speaker 4: our main sponsor in Germany, you have the name on
Speaker 4: our jerseys and they are a value sponsors even in
Speaker 4: the United States, sitting here in Atlanta as well. And
Speaker 4: so that was the reason we were able to move
Speaker 4: forward very quickly, and of course with the real commitment
Speaker 4: to the to the topic, which is very important for
Speaker 4: both of us.
Speaker 1: You mentioned commitment, and you mentioned philosophy and personality and
Speaker 1: all of that. Uh, when the club I know has
Speaker 1: a grand vision of how they would like these things
Speaker 1: to be, how these how these relationships can come about
Speaker 1: and grow and and continue to grow the game in
Speaker 1: a perfect world, what is gruther Firth looking for as
Speaker 1: it continues to grow its footprints and grow the game?
Speaker 1: What is the club looking forward to the most in
Speaker 1: these relationships.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we are.
Speaker 4: Even we are a one hundred and twenty year old
Speaker 4: club founded in nineteen oh three and the playing in
Speaker 4: the German Sundesliga. We are we are, We care about
Speaker 4: the people and we didn't come over with the idea
Speaker 4: to know it better because we are a German professional
Speaker 4: soccer club and soccer a long tradition in Germany. We
Speaker 4: used to learn from from Atlanta, from from Ksa, from
Speaker 4: from Atlanta's people. It's culture. Because we don't pretend that
Speaker 4: we know what it's best. We want to we want
Speaker 4: to get in contact. We want to listen to the people,
Speaker 4: understand and build something meaningful together in order to build
Speaker 4: a foundation to go the next step.
Speaker 3: And of course it would be.
Speaker 4: Great, it would be a dream for see sometime a
Speaker 4: young player coming from Atlanta over to Third and wearing
Speaker 4: our jersey and playing as a professional soccer player in Germany,
Speaker 4: whether in our club or in another. But that's far away. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to start from, we're here to building bridges to understand
Speaker 4: the culture and to get in touch with each other
Speaker 4: and to care about the people, because that's the most
Speaker 4: important thing. That the philosophy of our club and the
Speaker 4: Ksa here in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Kareem, what excites you the most and what excites k
Speaker 1: say the most about this?
Speaker 6: So me personally, I said, it was excitingly the most.
Speaker 6: It's I'm from Europe. I'm from France. I came twenty
Speaker 6: twenty here in America, and you know, as everyone knows,
Speaker 6: soccer is growing here in America. So I think is
Speaker 6: the right time, the right place to really focus on
Speaker 6: these sports and to give opportunity to the kids and
Speaker 6: also to the underprivileged kids. That's why kaid do mostly
Speaker 6: that's what we know or here in Georgia. It's really
Speaker 6: to give the opportunity to the younger players that unfortunately
Speaker 6: they don't have the finance to be able to get
Speaker 6: an academy to play soccer, and also to give them
Speaker 6: the opportunity to dream, you know, about playing professional and
Speaker 6: maybe in Europe.
Speaker 7: And also it's an honor of course to have a.
Speaker 6: Club like like rut Firth to be able to sustain that.
Speaker 6: And and like you said, they came really humbly, you know,
Speaker 6: really to watch our culture because of course.
Speaker 7: It's a different continent, it's a different philosophy. Here it's
Speaker 7: soccer there, it's football.
Speaker 6: So so yeah, that's really something that is coming naturally.
Speaker 7: I would say it's the beginning of it, to be.
Speaker 6: Honest with Shoot's my first time putting a face on Timo,
Speaker 6: my first time seeing him. I would see later on
Speaker 6: the three event. Yeah, yeah, you've been busy. He came
Speaker 6: two days ago. You had meetings and meetings and meetings,
Speaker 6: you know. So so yeah, it's a pleasure. I will
Speaker 6: see today tonight on the three v three event. And
Speaker 6: I've seen other coaches as well from the club and
Speaker 6: it's only been great. And I'm also learning, you know,
Speaker 6: a lot of things sharing and it's all about that
Speaker 6: at the end. After when you do the right things,
Speaker 6: the right things come by themselves.
Speaker 1: And I do want to talk about the three v
Speaker 1: three event before we get out of here, so folks
Speaker 1: can go and see what's going on.
Speaker 2: How much of a learning experienced Temo has it been
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: I know that literally apparently you've only been here for
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. But obviously there have been conversations and
Speaker 1: such about how you want ruther Firth to impact what's
Speaker 1: going on here, how you like kas say, the impact
Speaker 1: what's going on over there in Germany, whether it's with personnel, personality, philosophy.
Speaker 1: What have you How much of an education has it
Speaker 1: been for you and the club.
Speaker 4: Well, we've learned that the great football and work is
Speaker 4: happening all over the world and sometimes in.
Speaker 3: Places that get overlooked in the global spotlight. Yeah on soccer.
Speaker 4: But KSA has shown us what it means to truly
Speaker 4: support young people and not just becoming better players, but
Speaker 4: becoming strong individuals. And that is one important thing for
Speaker 4: our youth development because if you if you are a
Speaker 4: soccer club and you work with four to five hundred
Speaker 4: kids and youth players, for sure not each of them
Speaker 4: will become a professional soccer player.
Speaker 3: So we're looking.
Speaker 4: To give them the skills, to give them the values
Speaker 4: that they can make it in lives wherever life may
Speaker 4: take them, even if they are not becoming a professional
Speaker 4: soccer player, you know. And that's our mission at the
Speaker 4: street itembroiderfill two. And that's the way KSA is looking
Speaker 4: on developing young young players. Feel hungry and uh the
Speaker 4: most important thing to build characters. Yeah, with resilient opportunity,
Speaker 4: giving and target in life so they can take it
Speaker 4: wherever life takes them.
Speaker 1: What is it like Timo for the club to to
Speaker 1: have a relationship that seemed to be really quick in
Speaker 1: coming together, that seems to be out of the blocks,
Speaker 1: to be a relationship that is very symbiotic, that there
Speaker 1: is the same kind of messaging. What's it like to
Speaker 1: stumble across a partner like this and have things happen
Speaker 1: as quickly as this seems to have.
Speaker 3: Well, of course, because you're a small club, not too
Speaker 3: much of stuff, so the quickness overturned a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, and it's very very very hard to to
Speaker 4: get you things keep them going and all the all
Speaker 4: the networking doing over here, talking with Posmon and the
Speaker 4: department they have over here in Atlanta, and after all,
Speaker 4: I think that the developing the talent is one of
Speaker 4: our our most space in Burg in Germany, and KSA
Speaker 4: has the same focus over here and also Atlanta United,
Speaker 4: which we will meet on match day on Saturday.
Speaker 3: It's focused on that because you have to.
Speaker 4: Get the young players out of out of nothing, maybe
Speaker 4: you have to find it, you have to educate them,
Speaker 4: you have to develop them then making them ready to
Speaker 4: getting any professional.
Speaker 3: Sports and professional soccer in.
Speaker 4: Our in our lives. So that is always a big
Speaker 4: asset and you don't have much time. You have to
Speaker 4: be the first, You have to be fast, because otherwise
Speaker 4: another club will.
Speaker 3: Get those talents. And so soccer is.
Speaker 4: A is a very quick business and therefore it's no
Speaker 4: problem that everything went very quick and fast with that partnership.
Speaker 1: Right now, all right, kareem tell everybody about the event
Speaker 1: this weekend, what's going on and how folks can get
Speaker 1: to see what this relationship up close and personal.
Speaker 2: Let me let them have it. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, tonight as EXPM at Workspan part it's a three
Speaker 6: v three event. It's really more to celebrate the collaboration
Speaker 6: between ks and Ruther Firth.
Speaker 7: It's all about fun.
Speaker 6: You know, it's gonna be music and it's gonna be
Speaker 6: a three v three event where we're inviting all the
Speaker 6: Georgia players from you thirteen to nineteen. It's not This
Speaker 6: program is not just about KSA. It's really about also
Speaker 6: all the players in Georgia, doesn't matter if they Plumels next,
Speaker 6: if they play CNL, if they play any other.
Speaker 7: League in Georgia.
Speaker 6: We also Router providing five sessions online and on field
Speaker 6: as well, and we're also evaluating the players following their
Speaker 6: development and then at the end we give them the
Speaker 6: opportunity maybe to go in Germany in the summer. So
Speaker 6: it's really to present the program and to invite simply
Speaker 6: the youngers to come have fun and.
Speaker 7: Collaborate. Sorry, just showing the collaboration that we have with KISS.
Speaker 1: And absolutely it's going to be a really cool six
Speaker 1: to eight Rock Springs turf Field in Lawrenceville tonight. Once again,
Speaker 1: there there are rules. Apparently there are rules. Once again,
Speaker 1: it's that's going to be a rest. So it's you thirteen,
Speaker 1: U fourteen, you fifteen, U sixteen, U seventeen, U eighteen,
Speaker 1: you get signed jerseys from the first team for players,
Speaker 1: real time exposure to international scouts once again, six to
Speaker 1: eight at Rock Spring Turfield in Lawrenceville tonight. So, uh,
Speaker 1: before you leave, Timo, what are you looking to accomplish?
Speaker 1: Are you looking to go to the varsity other than
Speaker 1: you know, do you want really good Southern food? Do
Speaker 1: you want to watch good soccer? What's on that list?
Speaker 1: Before you get out of here?
Speaker 3: All of that? Yeah, we had to We had a
Speaker 3: lot of meeting with our Apartment of Housemann.
Speaker 4: As I said, before, we meet with the Atlanta National
Speaker 4: School at centrom because we we want.
Speaker 3: To understand the culture.
Speaker 4: That's what I what I told Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Meek meetings will come up.
Speaker 4: Of course, we're very excited looking forward to meeting Atlanta
Speaker 4: United tomorrow making the same sports. But we've also been
Speaker 4: with the Atlanta Braiks yesterday and geting in touch with
Speaker 4: them baseball sport and that not as popular as it
Speaker 4: is in the States in Germany, to to understand what
Speaker 4: are the topics of them and how they work and
Speaker 4: building building fans, building partnerships. So you see, it's a
Speaker 4: big range of topics and seeings and meetings we do
Speaker 4: over here. And yeah, looking forward to see the match
Speaker 4: Atlanta United. Yeah, the arena is grand. I'm just very
Speaker 4: excited and it's overwhelming. All the people welcome me here,
Speaker 4: so thanks a love for everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is Southern hospitality, and you know that folks,
Speaker 1: they're going to be they're going to be grabbing you
Speaker 1: by the collar and say, hey, you've got to come
Speaker 1: over here and look at this. Hey you got to
Speaker 1: come over here and look at this. Skaream is going
Speaker 1: to have to grab you by the back of the
Speaker 1: by the back of the neck.
Speaker 2: And go like dude, we're on the clock.
Speaker 1: Man, we got wet yeah well yeah yeah. Kareem, you've
Speaker 1: got your personal security, and you're probably gonna leave here
Speaker 1: about ten pounds heavier than you did when you showed up,
Speaker 1: just because of all the eating that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing here. Can't wait to see you tonight in Lawrence Will.
Speaker 1: For those that can make it out to Lawrence Will
Speaker 1: tonight between six and eight, can't wait to see you
Speaker 1: tomorrow when you get to see that land United in
Speaker 1: Nashville taking on each other at Mercedes Benz Stadium. First off,
Speaker 1: glad you made it here safely. Glad that this relationship
Speaker 1: is really off and running, and we'll catch up with you.
Speaker 1: For those that'll be out Lawrenceville tonight, we'll see in
Speaker 1: Lawrenceville tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll see it Mercedes Benz tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Can't thank you guys enough for dropping by to kick
Speaker 1: things off here on the Morning Show on a Friday.
Speaker 1: Be safe, enjoy, eat a lot of good food, and
Speaker 1: we'll see you soon, either tonight or tomorrow or both.
Speaker 2: Be well, y'all.
Speaker 3: Thanks love for having us.
Speaker 2: Thanks there you go.
Speaker 1: It's Kareem and that is and this is Timo Sheeler.
Speaker 1: And Timo works in the marketing and communications for s
Speaker 1: p spbgg grwthor Firth. Now here's here's what's going on
Speaker 1: tonight once again. It's a three v three tournament Friday,
Speaker 1: six to eight the Rock Spring turf Field in Lawrenceville.
Speaker 1: Phone number and here tell you what, why don't I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put the phone number and the email here just
Speaker 1: so you can get lay it all out. So phone
Speaker 1: number for anybody that is interested nine five six eight
Speaker 1: sixty seven.
Speaker 2: All right, So.
Speaker 1: Uh alright, So that is the phone number if anybody
Speaker 1: wants to get in touch with anybody and find out
Speaker 1: more about the tournament in and of itself tonight. So
Speaker 1: that is six to eight in Lawrenceville six seven eight
Speaker 1: nine nine five six eight six seven. And you can
Speaker 1: find out more information there are good at info at
Speaker 1: kolanjisoccer dot com. Info at Kolanji Soccer O k l
Speaker 1: o n Ji kolanjisoccer dot com. And so once again
Speaker 1: that's the phone number. That's your email info at langisoccer
Speaker 1: dot com. Three v three tournament tonight out in Lawrenceville
Speaker 1: at the Rock Spring turf Field and it's ten minute
Speaker 1: matches three to six players a team. You thirteen and fourteen,
Speaker 1: you fifteen and sixteen, you seventeen and eighteen, And once
Speaker 1: again it's a chance to showcase talents. You get signed
Speaker 1: jerseys as a rewards in real time exposure to international scouts.
Speaker 1: And so once again please to invite everybody to this
Speaker 1: three v three tournament hosted in collaboration with Rutherfirth and
Speaker 1: Hofmann Personal. So once again this is really cool stuff
Speaker 1: that we're you know, having out in Lawrenceville tonight for
Speaker 1: those of you out in in Gwinnett County. Out in Lawrenceville,
Speaker 1: you can catch up with everybody out there. So once
Speaker 1: again six seven eight nine nine five sixty eight sixty
Speaker 1: seven or email at info at kolangisoccer dot com for
Speaker 1: the three v three tournament with our friends at KSA
Speaker 1: and our friends at.
Speaker 2: Spv G G gruther Firth.
Speaker 1: So there you go, once again, all on one line
Speaker 1: six seven eight nine nine five six eight sixty seven
Speaker 1: info at Klangi Soccer dot com. And hopefully once again
Speaker 1: if you if you ain't got nothing going on and
Speaker 1: uh the rain can stay away, that it'll be great
Speaker 1: to go and catch up with folks. And once again,
Speaker 1: that's great to catch up with Creem to me, me
Speaker 1: and Timo Schieler, with KSA, the Kolangi Soccer Academy and
Speaker 1: with the SpVgg ruther Firth, and great to see this
Speaker 1: relationship literally, and then I was going back through all
Speaker 1: of the information and literally it was something that started
Speaker 1: back on the seventeenth. Literally this was like, uh, Kareem
Speaker 1: is now one of the leading coaching staff of this
Speaker 1: project in Georgia, and so with Kareem and Tony Tiente,
Speaker 1: they're going to be having a few of folks in
Speaker 1: this project once again partnering with ruther Firth in the
Speaker 1: Bundesligan Bundesliga BEE, ensuring players across Georgie that they have
Speaker 1: access to this kind of relationship. So you're talking evaluations
Speaker 1: and coaching, you're talking in person player development camps with
Speaker 1: Firth technical staff, ongoing online training and with opportunities for
Speaker 1: selection to travel for Germany for tryouts and training as well.
Speaker 1: So once again it's Kareem and Tony Tnta, a couple
Speaker 1: of folks that you might remember from their time with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United too, So very very cool stuff there, and
Speaker 1: this relationship off and running because literally it was announced
Speaker 1: back on the seventeen