German struggler Darmstadt invites 'fan' Obama to game
Berlin - The Bundesliga's bottom side Darmstadt has invited Barack Obama to a home game after discovering the former U.S. president follows them on Twitter.
"It's a huge honour for us," said Darmstadt's German-born U.S. international Terrence Boyd in a video message tweeted to Obama.
Boyd promised a warm welcome for the former POTUS and revealed a Darmstadt shirt with Obama's name on the back and the No. 98 - the club was founded in 1898.
Dear @BarackObama, since we are apparently already the only European soccer club you follow on Twitter: See you at our stadium? 😉 #sv98 pic.twitter.com/iThQpILKTF
— SV Darmstadt 98 (@sv98) February 15, 2017
"Now that you have got a little more time for yourself, we would like to invite you to a game at the Bollenfalltor," added Boyd, who scored in last weekend's shock 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund.
Darmstadt filmed the message after a local radio station discovered "Die Lilien" (The Lilies) is the only club in a top European league which Obama follows on Twitter.
Obama has almost 85 million Twitter followers and follows 631,000 accounts. Darmstadt has just under 62,000 followers.
The city near Frankfurt was home to a large U.S. military base after the Second World War.