Dortmund fans, along with sponsors, raised €250,000 in crowdfunding to finance the film - the biggest sum at the time ever raised for a film through crowdfunding in Germany.

The most important man in the BVB founding story is Franz Jacobi. Born in 1888 on Borsigplatz in Dortmund, he lost his father at an early age. He began the man of the house, helping his mother and five brothers and sisters. Jacob was trained at Hoesch and was physically active in his youth at the Trinity Abbey. Soccer was not yet Germany's national pasttime, but Franz Jacobi was fascinated by English sports and founded with some friends on the 4th of Advent in 1909 the BVB soccer club against determined resistance from the Catholic Church.