Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 4:55 PM• Yanick Vos • Last update: 16:55

1. FC Union Berlin has warned its 2500 supporters not to wear fan clothes in Rotterdam tonight around the Conference League match with Feyenoord (6.45 pm). Christian Arbeit, the spokesperson for the German club, advises fans in the emergency call to be vigilant in Rotterdam tonight. The warning comes a day after the Union Berlin leadership attacked on a terrace in Rotterdam.

“I think it is really advisable not to go out in small groups and certainly not individually. It is better to stay together and actually use the central assembly point,” Arbeit says on German radio. “Supporters, please don’t wear fan clothes,” it sounds. On Wednesday evening, about twenty people attacked a delegation of Union Berlin in catering establishment De Huismeester in the center of Rotterdam. Among others, chairman Dirk Zingler, general manager Oskar Kosche and Arbeit himself were present in the case at De Meent.

According to the police, supporters threw chairs and glasses at the board members on the terrace. One victim was taken to hospital. A 25-year-old suspect has been arrested because of the disturbances, the police said. Feyenoord has strongly condemned the attack. In a statement, Feyenoord called it a “totally reprehensible event that should not happen to anyone who is a guest in the city for what should be a beautiful European football evening.”