“The club’s social responsibility for people living in the St. Pauli area is a very special topic for the club, part of<br />our main DNA,” said Christoph Pieper, the club’s chief spokesman, whose two children attend the kindergarten program.<br />“I love the club, I love football, and I can work here every day, so it’s cool,”<br />said Anne Schick, 32, a teacher who moonlights as a goalkeeper for one of F. C.<br />St. Pauli’s women’s teams.<br />Welcome to the World’s Coolest Kindergarten -<br />By ANDREW KEHAPRIL 24, 2017<br />HAMBURG, Germany — It was late Tuesday afternoon at the Pestalozzi Foundation kindergarten,<br />and a few dozen children and their parents were hanging around past the normal pickup hour.<br />“We don’t need any babysitters for match days, which is really important if both parents are fans of the team,” said Grützner, a journalist.<br />Atop the stands — visible from the windows of the kindergarten — huge signs read, in German, “No football for fascists” and “No person is illegal.”<br />St. Pauli, the neighborhood, is a working-class area — known for its music clubs and red-light district — that has been gentrifying in recent years.<br />They were enjoying the view from the kindergarten’s rear veranda: the inside of Millerntor-Stadion, the 29,546-seat stadium that is home to F. C.<br />St. Pauli, as it hurriedly filled up for a midweek soccer game.
