DFL CEO Rettig wants to return to the Bundesliga – Frankfurter Rundschau

DFL CEO Andreas Rettig has asked for his contract. Photo: Matthias Balk

Frankfurt / Main –

The German Football League loses her husband practice. CEO Andreas Rettig solves surprisingly the summer of his contract with the DFL, and wants to return to the Bundesliga

” Looking at my personal life planning I am … come to the conclusion that I see my future in club soccer. Without that there are already concrete considerations with a view of the tasks ahead, it was logical not to seek a contract extension, “the 51-year-old said in a press release of the DFL.

According to information from the TV channel Sky Sports News HD should be a top candidate for the succession of Eintracht Frankfurt chairman Heribert break Hagen Rettig. Whose contract expires in 2016, the 66-year-old does not want to renew it.

The Treaty of Rettig at the DFL would not raced until the end of 2015, the contract is at his request, to 30 of June. disbanded. De facto, the former manager of the club SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln and FC Augsburg but already let his work cease from March onwards – “in the sense of the integrity of the competition,” before the licenses of professional clubs for the new season goes. The business “game mode and Licensing” is acting guide Christian Seifert, chairman of the DFL, then.

Rettig was only able to record a sports policy success in December, when he Bundesliga clubs persuaded to vote for the introduction of goal-line technology. When the umbrella organization of 36 professional clubs in Frankfurt / Main, he had entered on 1 January 2013 as the successor to Holger Hieronymus. Born in the Leverkusen had meant when he took office in Frankfurt DFL headquarters: “I hope that we are seen a bit more about the sport, not only as a marketing association.”

In Leverkusen’s heavyweight Reiner Calmund was once Rettig gone into teaching. The FC Augsburg was six years his last stop at a club, where the post is now occupied by Stefan Reuter: The 1990 World Cup has gained enormous respect for his work. Augsburg’s former club boss Walther Seinsch called Rettig times a “grunt”. The busy-maker will in any case have little trouble again in the medium to find an attractive job in the professional business. Behind League President Reinhard Rauball and Seifert Rettig was the strong third man at the DFL. . He is someone who wound up in tasks other sometimes but can be annoying and something with his impatience and his zeal

Large reputation and renown Rettig in fandom: As the debate over the controversial security concept was the beginning of his term in office long cooked up, because he invited representatives of fan projects and – groupings – even from the ultra scene – in the DFL headquarters a. “The last two years at the DFL were instructive and interesting and have me again allows an expanded view of the football,” recognized the outgoing managing director.

“Andreas Rettig has important at the DFL pulses set – for example, with regard to the fan needs, but also the introduction of goal-line technology, “praised Seifert. A successor Rettigs is not fixed yet. If it goes to the clubs and football fans, it may be a happy again, that comes along as Rettig in shirt and sweater instead of in a suit and tie. (AP)