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The Full Interview

One Club, 40+ Nationalities
The Hamburg Hurricanes

Do you know the gentlemen in pink who play football every Sunday in Hamburg’s Central Park? Would you like to meet them? In this episode, three Hurricane players, George Balakrishna, Thomas Ostendorf, and Oussama Bensat, talk to Dr. Hennriette Runte about the international character of this awesome grassroots football club, about their own cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and about the teams’ creative initiatives to make the world just a little better.

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Everyone is welcome!

Currently we have ca. 40 different nationalities in our club.

However, since the club was formed in 2013 we have had players play for the Hurricanes from over 70 countries including nationalities such as:

Afghani Albanian Algerian Argentinian Australian Austrian Bahraini Bangladeshi Belarusen Brazilian Bulgarian Burkinabé  Camerounian Canadian Colombian Danish Dutch Egyptian English Filipino French Finnish Gabonese Gambian German Ghanaian  Greek Guatemalan Hungarian Indian Iranian Irish Italian Japanese Kenya  Korean Lithuanian Macedonian  Mauritian Mexican Moldavian Moroccan Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Northern Irish Norwegian Pakistani Panamanian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scottish Serbian Singaporean  South African Spanish Sudanese  Swiss Tanzanian Tunisian Turkısh Ugandan Ukrainian USA (American) Uzbek Venezuelan Welsh Yemen

Listen now in English!

Listen now in German!

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