Hatred against Türkgücü: "Under a different government something like you would have been thrown into the camp"

The Türkgücü Munich club is controversial in German professional football.

But the comments and messages that Managing Director Max Kothny is now making public only leave you speechless.

• Türkgücü Munich managing director Kothny defends himself against hate speech.

• The messages that the association receives from right-wing extremist groups are speechless.

• Messages on Instagram show that there is an enemy culture in football.

Türkgücü Munich is controversial in German football.

Some criticize the rapid rise of financier Hasan Kivran's club, while others are happy about the newcomer's spectacular style of play in the third division.

However, it does not always stop at objective criticism.

The right-wing extremist party “The III.

Weg “has been publicly inciting against Munich for a long time, but officials are also victims of verbal attacks in private.

Managing director Max Kothny published a statement via Instagram in which he questions the "enemy culture in football".

In addition, the 23-year-old showed an email addressed to him, which states, among other things: "Under a different government something like you would have been thrown into the camp." 

Konthny: "I receive such hate mail and even letters every day."

When asked by our newspaper, Kothny confirmed that he received "such hate mail and even letters" every day.

Every week there are a handful who really go below the belt.

“Then you have someone who is only 23 years old.

I quickly become an enemy.

But who can really judge my work as managing director? " 

Kothny says that he could take it easy and, to a certain extent, he also knew “what was in store for me.

But if family members are drawn into it, a limit is simply exceeded. "The current legal dispute with the BFV is also" naturally good food for the people who don't like Türkgücü anyway. "It is normal for you to be inferior Party defend and try to clarify their point of view in front of the courts. Kothny suspects why Türkgücü is so in the line of fire: "If you grow so quickly and are successful, you are in the focus across Germany.

Then everyone arrives and shoots at you, taking out your frustration on you. "

Text: Nico Marius Schmitz