2008 - Bankers vs Owners 2:3

Dear all,

Another tough year for the bankers: Martin's middle-aged men beat Ingmar's Rat pack with 3:2. But it was a close and very exciting match. Many spectators saw the bankers as the stronger team. However, an excellent goalie, Christian Kockentiedt (Intersee) and Carsten Schober (Peter Döhle Schiffahrt) in offense secured the third victory in a row. Christian Dyballa's and Stefan Schlatermund's goals for the bankers were not sufficient.

More than a competitive football match, it was a social event for the German shipping industry and financing banks: More than 300 spectators observed the match at the HSH Nordbank Arena. Roughly 40 kids were entertained by "Dino Hermann" and other activities. 200 people stayed for the following dinner at "Die Raute". This sets a benchmark for next year.

Sabine Beuth and Sabine Bethke of Hypovereinsbank as well as the sons of Oliver Henkel (Deutsche Schiffsbank AG) and Michael Say (August Bolten) were awarded as the best fans and won tickets for a European Cup match of HSV.

All this was made possible by TOTAL LUBMARINE, the sponsor of the event. Thanks a lot!

We would like to thank Udo Bandow for arranging the HSV training field, Viola Kuhk, Mary Pasieka, Alexandra Lichtenthal, Nicole Vidal (all Salomon Invest) for organising the match and supervising the children, our referees Marc and Gert Richter and Rüdiger Frank, the paramedics of JUH, the jury for "best fans" with Viola Holberg (Lloyd Fonds), Kristina Köhn (Deutsche Schiffsbank) and Suwarie Topaz (Liberian Registry), Mike McCleery (Marine Money) for coming all the way from New York and the employees of HSV and "Die Raute" for all the support.

All interested readers of this homepage are kindly asked to add results, photos, the names of scorers and stories from the past years.

As the wise Sepp Herberger once said: "After the match is beforte the match". Please reserve Wednesday, the 2nd of September 2009 for the 35th match bankers versus shipowners".

Training field of HSV - next to the HSH Nordbank Arena

Sylvesteralle 7

22525 Hamburg