Talk:FC Schalke 04
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
