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Floodlight

Your club’s week

Every Monday a new book is waiting for you. It tells your Kickoff club’s week: your matches, your goals, your table, the talk in the dressing room. About seven pages, written for you alone.

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How it works

Three steps

  1. You play your week

    Line-up, tactics, transfers: you do in Kickoff what you always do. The book needs nothing more.

  2. Monday: your book

    Your real matches become a football novel. The late goal, the mood in the dressing room, what the local paper writes and what your rival is planning. Every book has its own title and its own cover.

  3. You have a say

    In every book you make a decision. Depending on what you choose, you find set keepsakes for your album. No luck involved and no advantage in the game, just memories.

Sample

Book 3 · SV Grünhöhe 09 · Tier 8

Book 3 · SV Grünhöhe 09 · Tier 8

The penalty nobody wanted

Matchday 7, Sunday, 89th minute. Grünhöhe against Eintracht Moorstetten, 1-1. The referee points to the spot, and suddenly nobody has time for eye contact.

Okafor reties his boot, even though the boot is fine. Brehm, the captain, looks over at the bench as if the answer were written there. Only Lenny Vogt, nineteen, three weeks into first-team football, picks up the ball and tucks it under his arm.

“Give it here,” says Brehm. It doesn’t sound like an order. More like a favour.

Lenny doesn’t give it.

Someone on the far side shouts his name and gets the stress wrong. The stand behind the goal is forty people strong, and all forty are on their feet. Lenny puts the ball down and turns it until the valve points up. His uncle taught him that. Whether it does anything, nobody knows.

Three steps of run-up. The Moorstetten keeper waves his arms like he’s guiding a plane in.

Lenny hits it waist-high, to the left. The keeper dives right.

Match scene: 89th minute, penalty. Lenny Vogt, number 17, goes left, the Moorstetten keeper dives right.
From your match89th minute. Bottom left, and the keeper is already on his way right.

After that, Lenny doesn’t remember much. Only that Okafor gets to him first. And that the boot really is undone now.

Scoreboard: tier 8 table after matchday 7, SV Grünhöhe 09 highlighted in fourth place.
From your matchAfter the 2-1, Grünhöhe jump to fourth. Moorstetten drop in behind them.

A real book holds 3 to 5 pictures like these, made from your own matches.

Your call

On Monday the local paper calls and wants to talk to Lenny.

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Example with a made-up club.

Your opinion

Quick poll

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Your album

Shelf season 5

Every book lands in your album on pinnry as a cover, one shelf per season. Whatever is still missing stands on the shelf as a shadow. Special weeks get a special cover with a shine: derby win, promotion, title, cup win, relegation fight. Complete a season and the badge comes with it.

SV Grünhöhe 0910 of 12 books
Book 11
Book 22
Book 33
Book 44
Book 55
Book 66
Book 77
Book 88
Book 1010
Book 11 · Special cover11
On the shelfSpecial coverStill missing
Season completeBadge once every book of the season is on the shelf.

Example with a made-up club.

Access

At launch

The first two books are free for everyone, supporters included.

You’ll hear in good time how it continues after that.

Connect your account

Once, and you’re set

Your book arrives every Monday in your Kickoff inbox with a personal link, nothing to set up. For your album on pinnry, you connect your Kickoff account with pinnry once. It costs nothing, and you can disconnect it in your account at any time.

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Questions

Short answers
Do I have to play more for this?

No. The book tells what happens in your week anyway. A quiet week is a story too, and a defeat is often the better one.

Do decisions or keepsakes give me an advantage in the game?

No. Decisions only steer the story, and keepsakes are collectibles for your album. They have no effect on line-up, ratings or table. Same choice, same keepsake, no luck involved.

What does it cost?

The first two books are free for everyone, supporters included. You’ll hear in good time how it continues after that.

Which languages, and who is it for?

German and English. The books are for readers aged 18 and over.

When does my book arrive?

Book 1 came out on 26 October, you’ll find the link in your Kickoff inbox. From now on, a new book arrives every Monday.