Great support for our dual education

FK Austria Wien has a unique partner school, the Ballsportgymnasium Wien, which opens doors to our junior players and young pros in addition to football. At the inside event at the Marriott Hotel CEO Markus Kraetschmer, school director Werner Scharf and graduate Dominik Prokop presented the educational project to our business partners.

Prokop and Blauensteiner as Role Models

Werner Scharf, director of the Ballsportgymnasium adds, “It is our goal to be able to send out very dedicated, enthusiastic, young athletes.” Some of the business partners of FK Austria Wien already committed themselves to financially support the cooperative school as 'Sponsors of the Ballsportgymnasium' during the presentation at the Marriott Hotel.

“The coordination of the class schedules with training plans and games requires a lot of flexibility and a high organizational effort. There is a lot to it. Coordinated education is something very unique. We have created a 'Stams' (Note: prestigious ski school) for team sport. It was a long way to get here,” Markus Kraetschmer portrays.

With Dominik Prokop and Michael Blauensteiner, the first high school graduates of the Ballsportgymnasium have already established themselves in the professional team. “That's exactly the way we want to go,” Kraetschmer says.

Graduate Prokop, now an established part of the violet starting line-up says, “Of course you have to forego a few things as a teenager, but the time I spend at the Ballsportgymnasium was very important for my personal development.”

The school and football life will become even more efficient for the young “Violets” as soon as the school building at the Generali-Arena is completed as part of the 'Viola Park' project. “Right from the start, our vision was to have the school for our junior players in close proximity to our stadium. This will make the distances shorter and the processes even more efficient,” Kraetschmer says.

In addition to the players of Austria Wien, Timberwolves (basketball), Vienna Vikings (football and cheerleaders), as well as baseball and volleyball players are being educated in competitive sports classes of the Ballsportgymnasium Wien.

“This is very unique and quite rare in this form and dimension in Europe. For example, Dortmund does not have anything similar. Most recently the BVB was very interested in the model. The combination of several sports, with girls and boys, is very important to us and also an important part of the social responsibility that FK Austria Wien lives. It is important for the boys and girls to have all doors open, in addition to football,” CEO Markus Kraetschmer explains.

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