Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Football: DFL CEO Rettig wants to return to the Premier League – Times Online

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – The German Football League loses her husband in practice: Managing Director Andreas Rettig solves surprisingly the summer of his contract with the DFL, and wants to return to the Bundesliga.

“With regard to my personal plans, I am … come to the conclusion that I see my future in club soccer. Without that there are already concrete considerations with a view to future tasks was logical to pursue it no contract extension, “the 51-year-old said in a press release of the DFL.

According to the TV channel Sky Sports News information Rettig should be a top candidate for the succession of Eintracht Frankfurt chairman Heribert break Hagen. Whose contract expires in 2016, the 66-year-old does not want to renew it. The Eintracht had, however, these speculations immediately returned. “I run no talks with potential successors by Heribert break Hagen. For this purpose there is currently no reason, because Heribert break Hagens contract runs until June 30, 2016 and he will fulfill this contract,” said Wilhelm Bender, chairman of the Hessian Bundesliga,

The Treaty of Rettig at the DFL would still run until the end of 2015, the contract is dissolved at his request, June 30th. De facto, the former manager of the club SC Freiburg, 1. FC Köln and FC Augsburg but already let his work cease from March to – “within the meaning of the integrity of the competition” before the licenses of professional clubs for the new season goes. The business “Game Data and Licensing” is then acting guide Christian Seifert, chairman of the DFL.

Rettig was only able to record a sports policy success in December, when he convinced the Bundesliga clubs thereof, for the to vote 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.”

was the case Leverkusen heavyweight Reiner Calmund Rettig once went 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 even 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 fan circles. As the debate over the controversial security policy at the beginning of his term long was 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 an expanded view of the football allows,” summed up the outgoing CEO

“Andreas Rettig has in the DFL important stimulus set – for example, with a view of 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 should like to be a back that comes along as Rettig in shirt and sweater instead of in a suit and tie.

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