AFVD President Robert Huber visited the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) at the final weekend at 24./25.07.09 a visit and also attended the closing ceremony.
At the 2005 World Games in Duisburg was still American Football competition represented as an invitation to Germany with the historical performance of a gold medal won. At the World Games in Taiwan instead of American football was the much more popular in Taiwan Softball preferred.
“The Organizing Committee in Kaohsiung has an impressive organization, on the footing. We have seen that the World Games for Taiwan were a national concern.” Sums up the impressions of Robert Huber together. “In our world now waits IFAF the difficult task to in order to participate in the World Games 2013 in Cali (Colombia) to try. I was in Kaohsiung already had talks with the International World Games Association (IWGA) lead. American football as a sport has a good reputation. However, the size of our teams for each Organizing Committee once a logistical and financial problem with it. In Duisburg we had because of the Rhine-Ruhr area very big supporters of our great spectator sport popular. It now remains to be seen how the expectations are in Cali. “
The German World Games delegation reached with 6 gold, 6 silver and 10 bronze medals in the medal mirror 8, which Germany is not quite as good as hoped completed.
President Robert Huber also used the trip to a meeting with Peter Chen, President of the Taiwanese Association Cheerleader order to attend the 5th Cheerleading World Championships in Bremen on 28./29.11.2009 to advertise. Taiwan is there any instance with a delegation represented.