article_snippet: This fan-club relationship is a legacy from our fathers, who made it clear that our have to engage and our have to fight for our club.
article_snippet: Mention Dortmund and images are conjured up of back-to-back German Bundesliga title wins in 2011 and 2012, the Champions League triumph of 1997 or how it became the first German side to win a European competition with the Cup Winners' Cup in 1966.
article_snippet: We have always been democratic and I think Heinrich Unger always wanted the club members to have rights and votes, and to engage.
article_snippet: Everyone still has the feeling Everyone can do stuff and actually change things at their club.
article_snippet: The ups and downs make the club more exciting, and there have been so many extreme emotions in every direction.
article_snippet: I think it makes the good things much more enjoyable and wonderful because if you always win and are always top of the table it becomes boring.
article_snippet: If you're planning a club 57 years ago, and 57 years later you are top of Europe and you are the first European cup winner in Germany