FCK Rolling Devils
2013/14 (2nd Bundesliga Süd): 1st place
The FCK Rolling Devils are the wheelchair basketball players of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern. The first team of the Rolling Devils is champion 2014 in the 2nd Bundesliga South wheelchair basketball and playing in the 2014/15 season in the 1st Bundesliga.
- 2.1 Achievements
- 2.2 Statistics
- 3.1 Player Squad 2013/14
- 3.2 Coaches
- 3.3 Major Players
- 4.1 Venues
- 4.2 Awards
- 4.3 viewers and fan culture
- 4.4 naming
- 4.5 Trivia
- 5.1 Notes and references
History
Structures
In September 2009, a wheelchair basketball team was founded and incorporated in the basketball department at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern. Central figures were the former national player Sascha Gergele and Klaus Weber and the former women's national team coach and former Under-19 national team coach Christa Weber. About the Name as FCK Rolling Devils came on February 18, 2010.
On March 21, 2013, the establishment of an independent wheelchair sports department was decided and carried out after confirmation by the Vereinsrat of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern in December 2013.
Game operation
In the 2009/10 season, FCK Rolling Devils took starting with the first tryout on September 29, 2009 the training operation.
With the beginning of the season 2010/2011 the company entered the game running the German Wheelchair Sports Association ( DRS ) at the level of third-rate Regionalliga Mitte was. In September 2010, the team in the final against the MC scooter region the Cup winning center. Thus, the Rolling Devils qualified for the DRS Cup and reached there as the only league club the quarter-finals, where they lost the first league Mainhatten Skywheelers. In the middle of the Regional team won by a head - to-head races with the Lux scooter during the season with a victory in the direct clash on the final day loss point free the championship in 2011 and the associated rise in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd.
For the season 2011/12 reinforced the FCK Rolling Devils among other things with the German junior national team and founded in the fourth division Oberliga middle of a second team. In DRS Cup, the team had already failed in the group stage at the record champion USC Munich, but was able to complete the second division season as runner-up behind the Belgian team Roller Bulls St. Vith. The second team finished second in the league the middle a place in mid-table.
The 2012/13 season brought in DRS Cup the Eliminated in the group stage against the Mainhatten Skywheelers and in league play operation another runner, this time behind Heidelberg Rolling Chocolate. The second team finished second in the league in mid again a mid-table. Furthermore, the Rolling Devils took as substitutes of DRS for the first time in the game operation of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation ( IWBF ) and partially occupied in the Euro League 3 under five teams in third place.
Prior to the 2013/14 season the Rolling Devils have recorded several outlets in the coaching staff and players squad, but they could compensate to the beginning of the season, among others, reigning national team. Even in the first round it was another coaching change. In DRS Cup, the team reached the quarter-finals for the second time and retired from there back against the reigning vice-champion Mainhatten Skywheelers. On the third to last game the Rolling Devils won with a win against Sabres Followers Ulm prematurely the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd. The team finished the season loss point freely with the rise in the 1st Bundesliga. The team finished second in the league mid- season as champions.
Achievements and Stats
Achievements
Rolling Devils 1:
- Region Cup winner mid-2010.
- Master Regional mid-2011.
- Master 2nd Bundesliga Süd 2014.
Rolling Devils 2:
- Oberliga mid 2014.
Statistics
Staff
Player Squad 2013/14
Coach
Major Players
Others
Venues
Until the 2013/14 season all teams of FCK Rolling Devils played in the gymnasium of the University of Kaiserslautern (480 seats, 90 standing). From the 2014/15 season the first team wears their home games in the gymnasium of the school from Schiller ( 384 seats).
Awards
2011, the FCK Rolling Devils were honored for her social commitment to the contracts awarded by the German Olympic Sports Confederation star of the sport in bronze. In 2013 they received for civic engagement of people with and without disabilities with the bridge Award of Rhineland -Palatinate. In the Rhenish Palatinate - athletes choice in Kaiserslautern, the Rolling Devils were chosen for Team of the Year 2013.
Audience and fan culture
Since 2012, the Rolling Devils average of more than 300 spectators recorded at their home games and are thus among the most popular teams in the German wheelchair basketball. The wheelchair basketball while 1.FC Kaiserslautern has a significant proximity to the football field of the association to: the existing unofficial fan club since 2012 Rolling Devils Supporters overlaps staffed with soccer fan groups and fan culture is characterized by stylistic elements from the football environment. After their second league ascent 2011, the Rolling Devils Heidelberg Rolling Chocolate have been declared arch-rivals. Since 2013 there is an uncharacteristic for the wheelchair basketball Fanfreundschaft between the Rolling Devils and the Trier Dolphins.
Naming
The naming in the wheelchair basketball players of 1.FC Kaiserslautern is characterized by the public image of the entire association. The name Rolling Devils is a reference to the nickname The Red Devils for the football team of the overall association and similar to the FCK- professional footballer who FCK wheelchair basketball team since 2012 a devil as a mascot named Deiwel, the Palatinate dialect for devil. Identical to the Fritz -Walter-Stadion in football, the venue of the Rolling Devils is called hell, the magazine appears to Match days named Inferno, from 2009 to 2013 was played as Feeder song Hells Bells and since 2013 is the specially composed titles In Hell the official Devils song.
Trivia
In September 2012, the then FCK professional footballer Mohamadou Idrissou took part in the training of the Rolling Devils. Since March 2013, the Rolling Devils are represented in the Fritz -Walter-Stadion with exhibits in the permanent exhibition of the FCK Museum.