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Zuzenhausen is now known to every football fan in Germany. Away from the daily routine of the Bundesliga, the sporting home of TSG Hoffenheim is regularly visited by national and international guests. The delegation that visited the office on Friday nevertheless stood out from the previous groups of visitors and serves to highlight the prominence of this special football location: As an important stage of the “Visit of the Minister of Youth and Political Education of Cameroon to Germany”, TSG hosted a delegation of 13 people, including Foutsou Mounouna, minister of youth and political education of the West African country, as well as Victor Ndocki, Cameroon’s ambassador to Germany.
Shortly after arriving at 10 in the morning, the group were welcomed by TSG managing director Prof. Dr. Jan Mayer and president Kristian Baumgärtner in the Dietmar Hopp meeting room. The Cameroonian delegation also introduced themselves and gave insights into their work and provided information about the goals they are pursuing with the trip, which will last eleven days in total. After a joint photo and the welcome and introduction of the mayor of Zuzenhausen, Hagen Zuber, Tony Mamodaly (head of international operations at TSG and member of the “Internationalisation” commission within the DFL) and Peter Mukuna (sponsorship and management) presented the multi-layered and diverse work of TSG Hoffenheim to the guests, with a special focus on the future strategy “TSG on the move”, which was launched in 2018.
This was followed by a visit to the Footbonaut, the Helix and the SAP Interactive Dataspace, which also aroused great interest among the guests from Cameroon. Afterwards, Ndocki was “overwhelmed” and expressed his great respect for TSG’s work to the hosts on behalf of all participants: “Of course, we know the club from the Bundesliga and from TV broadcasts. But it’s very impressive for all of us to see and experience all the buildings and this incredible infrastructure at close quarters and to gain all these insights into the working methods.”
After the approximately two-hour tour through the TSG facilities, all participants drew a positive conclusion from the meeting, which could possibly even lead to future cooperation. Mayor Zuber expressed his “great pleasure at the visit” and announced an intensive discussion of the insights gained: “It makes me very proud that such a high-ranking delegation is visiting our village, wants to learn from us and also wants to know a lot more about the community. Our integration manager in Zuzenhausen is also from Cameroon. We already have a small bridge there. Now we will talk in the town hall about what they can learn from us, especially in the areas of child and youth care and education. And of course what we can learn from them. I’m very excited to get to know this culture better and especially want to learn more about their approach to youth care.” He also added: “A big thank you also to TSG, without whom such an event would never be possible. We have probably the most modern football club in Germany here.”
Mamodaly was also in high spirits after the meeting. “The attitude and resulting initiatives that we have firmly anchored in the club since 2018 through ‘TSG on the move’ have great social and societal relevance. This distinguished visit is emblematic of the attention we are attracting with these topics. There is hardly a greater compliment to our work than to have such a high-ranking delegation as guests here, who not only want to experience what we stand for as a club, but also want to feel and see this in person.”
The closing words were reserved for ambassador Victor Ndocki. In his small speech of thanks, he emphasised the impact he hopes the extraordinary impressions will have: “I don’t yet know exactly what the concrete effects will be. But I can tell you very precisely what we want: we would like to harness the quality, the respect for the environment, the values of TSG and the high level of management that we have seen here. It would be wonderful if positive outcomes could develop for the youth in Cameroon from this prime model.”
