Change your faces, gentlemen, become sportsmen, and help restore to the weary and torn world the true peace that can rest solely on the understanding of nations and whose symbol is the world-conquering darling and the remedy of youth: the little yellow leather ball, is, was and will be.

Source: Walther Bensemann – Der Kicker, April 19, 1921

These words were written more than 100 years ago by the person in whose memory the Walther Bensemann Memorial Tournament will be held in Nuremberg, the city of human rights, in 2022. Walther Bensemann, founder of Kicker, co-founder and namesake of the German Football Association, pioneer of soccer, inventor of the original international matches, this tournament is dedicated to him. Organized by the initiative !Never again and Makkabi Germany, around 200 U17 kickers from 8 top teams and 5 countries in Europe will play against each other and carry on Walther Bensemann’s vision together with numerous Holocaust survivors and committed companions. On the soccer field, in talks, lectures, workshops and evenings together, all participants and supporters stand up for a Europe in which justice, tolerance, humanity and peace prevail.