Talk:FC Schalke 04/Archive 1

Nickname

The team is generally known by the nickname "Schalker Knappen". Knappen is translated usually as knaves, but is also a term for the coal miners. Schalke is in the heart of the coal mining district of the Ruhr. The term "Kőnigsblaue" simply refers to their club color, a term a journalist may use for variety, but not a fan.Ekem 22:31, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

The term "Knappen" is used in the German wikipedia text.Ekem 10:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I've just included the info about the Knappen nickname and its origin.

Schalke 04 bus

I live in The Hague and i saw an Schalke 04 bus passing by,Do they have a special reason for driving in The Netherlands?

Actually, there are several Schalke busses, as the bus company (Nickel) that sponsors the team coach has several others painted up in the team bus's livery. You could conceivably see the team bus cruising through a city in Western Germany and the surrounding area at the very moment that the team are playing. - 210597

Pronunciation?

How is the "04" part of the name pronounced? "Null vier"? 143.252.80.110

Yes. --Daveboy 123 15:27, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

based in Schalke?

They are not based in Schalke, but in Buer. They were founded in Schalke and thus got their name from there, but form decades already they have their stadium and al other buildings in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, so this should probaly be changed. --Daveboy 123 15:27, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

You are right. I changed "based" to "founded". --Copper04 16:00, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

No their stadium is betwen Gelsenkirchen-Schalke, Gelsenkirchen-Schalke-Nord and Gelsenkirchen-Buer

The Stadium is in the district Erle, between Schalke and Buer, but definitely NOT in Buer.

You are right, the stadium is situated in Erle. The German article about the stadium states it correctly. I thought it was in Buer because the highway (Autobahn) exit is called "Gelsenkirchen Buer". --Daveboy 123 (talk) 19:21, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

It is in the Berger Feld neighborhood of Erle, with Berger Feld being an unofficial district. The area is rarely referred to as Erle, and sometimes as Buer, because until 1929 it was part of Buer, a city of its own.80.138.174.177 (talk) 04:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Who is the coach?

For what I know, the coach of Schalke is Mirko Slomka (see [1]), not Rudolf Assauer ([2]), who covers a different position in Schalke: in fact, "Manager" outside of England is a position unrelated with team and coaching issues, but usually just of club management and football market matters. It is so in Italy, and it sounds to be the same in Germany, for what I've seen around. And, of course, it is intended to fill the "manager" field with the one who coaches the team (again, Slomka, not Assauer). Otherwise, we should consequently replace Fabio Capello with Luciano Moggi in the Juventus F.C. associated field and so on. --Angelo 16:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

The German version of this page agrees with you and names the Trainer as Slomka. Assauer's English wikipedia entry names him as the manager in the same way as it does for Ottmar Hitzfeld. Manager in England does mean the head coach and it appears that it is the Assauer entry that is misleading rather than this one. MLA 16:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Schalke's current head coach is in fact Mirko Slomka. Rudi Assauer resigned earlier this year from being manager and has been followed by former Schalke player Andreas Müller. 80.138.225.146 22:05, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Escape from relegation 1965

I deleted the statement that Schalke were saved from relegation in 1965 by a relegation round because no relegation matches were played that season. Hertha BSC was relegated because of financial issues. Subsequently it was decided that another team from Berlin (Tasmania 1900) should be admitted to join the league to represent the city and that the league should be expanded so that the two teams which ended the season on relegation spots (Schalke and Karlsruher SC) could stay in the league.

However Schalke were saved from relegation from the Oberliga West in 1949 after being on a relegation spot by a relegation round, which was played because of an expansion of the league. 194.95.177.124 13:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Captain

How come nobody is listed on the current Schalke roster as captain? In my FIFA07 is lists Marcelo Bordon as captain but I wanted to confirm that before I edited the page Rammstein1 23:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

=Bit of a mess going here

The edits over the last week and a half have been a mess and I've taken the article back about that far. My apologies to anybody who added stuffed legitimately and in proper format that I may have clipped by doing this, but I think that we can all do a better job here. Wiggy! (talk) 16:52, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

FC Scheiße 04

Is “FC Scheiße 04” a derogatory nickname for “FC Schalke 04”? --88.78.3.26 (talk) 19:34, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

blau und weiß wie lieb ich dich

It should be mentioned, that Schalke was threatened because of their club-song. The line "Mohammed war ein Prophet, der vom Fußballspielen nichts versteht - Doch aus all der schönen Farbenpracht, hat er sich das blau und weiße ausgedacht" ("Mohamed was a prophet who does not know anything about football - but of all that wonderful colors he chose the blue and white") made some islamic fundamentalists very angry. In fact, this line was not written to insult Mohammed, but to praise him for choosing the blue-white colors for Schalke. --Finnjack (talk) 23:03, 20 August 2009 (UTC)