The Men's Football World Cup of 2026 proves once again that football can develop a special force: it creates community, creates identity. Already about 100 years ago football was more than a game. Those who joined a club at that time often chose a social milieu – workers' sports club, bourgeois club or Jewish sports club at the same time. The Club Hatikwah in Zwickau is a special chapter in German-Jewish life.
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The Men's Football World Cup of 2026 proves once again that football can develop a special force: it creates community, creates identity. Already about 100 years ago football was more than a game. Those who joined a club at that time often chose a social milieu – workers' sports club, bourgeois club or Jewish sports club at the same time. The Club Hatikwah in Zwickau is a special chapter in German-Jewish life.