Football expertise among women contributes to emancipation - this is Dagrun Hintze's conviction. She strongly urges female peers who have not previously shown interest in football to not reduce the game of games to "22 guys chasing after a ball" (or, even worse, to simply find Mats Hummels "cute"), but to understand it as a cultural technique: "The observation that football has more in common with the Dionysian festivals of ancient Greece than most theater performances I attend may be a cliché, but it is nonetheless accurate. To partake in the ecstasy requires two things: knowledge and being touched." Hintze shares her own love for football, stories of men sleeping in Borussia Dortmund bed linens, and intense encounters that can only happen between the kickoff and.