Nicole Selmer is the deputy editor-in-chief of the football magazine ballesterer in Vienna. She came to sports journalism through a detour, having studied German and Scandinavian literary studies in Hamburg and Uppsala and worked as a freelance translator and copywriter. In 2004, she published a book about female fans (“Watching the Boys Play, Women as Football Fans”), which led her to start writing journalistic pieces about football and social politics, and she joined the ballesterer. The independent magazine, founded in 2000, views football as part of politics, culture, and society. It features focus topics such as climate protection, integration, and Jewish identities in football.