5.9.2019. One day before their friendly match against Greece (Thursday, 18.15 h) in Zwickau, the U 21, visited national football team, the local Volkswagen plant.
Coaches, players, and Manager, first visited the Gulf production before you an exclusive insight into the production of the ID.3 received. The first model of the full electrical ID. Family celebrates on this coming Monday at the “Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung” (IAA) in Frankfurt, will have its world premiere and is still strictly secret.
“It made us very happy that we were able to show the under-21s today, the playing field on which several Thousand Volkswagen employees day-to-day operation,” said Dirk Coers, managing Director of human resources and Organisation, Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH. Together with Mandy Anding, Deputy works Council Chairman at the location in Zwickau, he had welcomed the U 21 national team after arrival in the factory. In addition to players and coaches, the Team behind the Team – for example managers, Doctors and analysts took advantage of the opportunity to get insight into modern car production.
Divided into two groups for the tour in hall 6 started to be built, where Golf and Golf Variant. Not a stop what is present at the “wedding”, the production step is connected with the engine and body to each other – so “married” – be. At various stations, the national players were allowed to view the Volkswagen employees about the shoulders, and sometimes even lend a Hand, such as the shoring of the impact carrier or in the Use of door seals. “We have seen what it means to work as a Team to achieve a great result,” said national coach Stefan Kuntz. “There’s a great Parallel to the football: Only if we all pull together, the result.”
Following the Golf Assembly, the guests visited the neighbouring hall 5, where in these days, the first preproduction models of the ID.3 from the tape run. The national players were up to the world premiere next Monday still top-secret vehicle both from the outside and from the inside in detail under the microscope.
Experts from the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau, provided the player with interesting facts around the topic of electric mobility. “I was not aware that the range of modern electric cars is several Hundreds of kilometres”, says Johannes Eggestein. The striker of Werder Bremen is one of the few remaining players from the European championship squad in the summer. A lot of the actors left due to the team’s age, many young players are one. “To know us better, it is important that we also have times outside of the football pitch together,” said coach Stefan Kuntz. “The invitation to plant tour at Volkswagen, we have adopted, therefore, like to. Events like today help us as a group to grow together.“
It was within a very short time, already the third visit of a DFB-team at Volkswagen. In March, the national team at the headquarters in Wolfsburg to visit what to see in the previous week, the national women’s team visited the component plant in Kassel. Volkswagen is since the beginning of the year mobility partner of the German football Association (DFB).
U 21-national team (photo: Volkswagen AG)
