Anyone who follows the debate about the “mirror” cover story for allegedly purchased WM in these days, the impression must win that a religious war has broken out. On one side stands the German Football Association (DFB), who pointed out in the strongest terms that the magazine provides no evidence for his thesis. Skip the DFB aside friends of Wolfgang Niersbach and Franz Beckenbauer, also from the media; they bring their messages via TV in German living rooms. Of course, who is on the other side: the report’s authors, who justify their conclusions. Objectively, it rarely goes to
The question in this religious war are:. Can the “mirror” mean? Can he – without providing evidence of vote buying – speak of an “allegedly purchased WM”? That’s what the observer discuss now so violently. The DFB itself should not be unwelcome, because the heart of the matter so is not in focus. An amount of 6.7 million euros, the largest sports association in the world supposedly can not allocate
That’s just what the” Mirror “revealed. That the organizing committee (OK) to have the 2006 World Cup will receive a private loan of Robert Louis-Dreyfus in the amount of 10.3 million Swiss francs. However, reports the “image” Now, that money was paid only in 2002, two years after the World Cup award so.
The assertion that the DFB have the Money 2005 – the purpose was a cultural program – referred to the football’s world governing body Fifa, however no one denies. According to the report flowed the money from there to Louis-Dreyfus back.
It looked quite helpless
fact is also: For ten years nothing happened. The Fifa said from the Culture Programme, but the DFB not urged then back converted 6.7 million euros. Vote-buying or not, that’s a huge scandal, which could ensure that at the end of high-level officials lose their jobs and their reputations alone. The fact that the DFB is called at the end in the same breath as the Fifa, when it comes to wheeling and dealing behind the scenes of world football, and the credibility has been destroyed. That would be a disaster for the German sports.
Dealing of the DFB with the history of the “mirror” creates the impression that there was actually a skeleton in the closet located and that education is not a top priority. Being in the industry on Friday morning almost everyone knew that the “Mirror” is the evening publish a revealing story, the association announced suddenly to speak.
The DFB had launched an internal investigation in the summer to determine what it has with the bank transfer of 6.7 million euros to FIFA on and whether it is legitimate to reclaim the money. Evidence that votes were bought, there was not any case. That looked like a piece of agreed move to forestall the report. It looked quite helpless, because of course the avalanche was unstoppable with this message.
lip service and a memory gap
The only way would have been to explain this payment immediately and the “mirror” anticipate when is there a plausible explanation. Instead, it remains far more than lip service. DFB president Niersbach, during the 2006 World Cup runner-up head of the organizing committee, assured that when awarding all expired with the right things. Similarly, the former OC President Franz Beckenbauer commented.
And the lawyer, the DFB has sent into battle is busy, the “mirror “discredit. The DFB Group is likely to have it like that one of the authors admitted on Sunday to have the handwriting Niersbachs not tested on a mentioned in the text document. Niersbach, wrote the magazine, have the money transfer to Louis-Dreyfus approved with a handwritten note quasi. The DFB boss himself says he can not remember, and asked for the sending of the document; this statement could be sufficient, the “mirror” is here in the burden of proof. Now you wait excited that stoking the Hamburger
However, a key question also remains unanswered if the mirrors do not do it. Why were the 6, EUR 7 million not recovered?
In the Presidium of the German Football Association, who presented his football museum in Dortmund on Monday, it rumbles. Several members of rebel behind their hands, that they were only informed on Friday about their own investigation. Ever this study seems dubious. If it is still determined since the summer – then why was about Theo Zwanziger, who ordered the payment to the Fifa 2005, not heard until today as a witness
Whether the DFB or twenties – to the thing itself to providing information and transparency, it seems to go only on the edge. It seems to be more important to save his own skin. Or to settle old scores? The latter is a suspicion that is cherished in the DFB: Right now, there Niersbach has chances to become president of the European Association Uefa, this unsavory affair comes to light
Infected Zwanziger, Niersbachs predecessor, it? Both can not stand each other. Has Zwanziger documents given to the “Mirror” to harm Niersbach? This accusation he denies, his lawyer said on Wednesday: “Dr Zwanziger has provided neither the mirror nor other third party documents now pending issue passed yet the mirror or other third parties in any other way with information about the upcoming issue.”
The World Federation silent
questions he has to put up with yet. Why he kept silent for so long is a mystery. Zwanziger made before the 2006 World Cup at the DFB a dual leadership with Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder. Back then, he affirms that he assumed that the money is actually intended for a cultural program. Because he then allegedly gained other findings, he drummed in the summer of 2013, the leader of the organizing committee of 2006 together.
In Frankfurt twenties sat, then no longer DFB -President, inter alia, with Beckenbauer, Niersbach and Radmann together and called by its own account the establishment of a commission to investigate the payment of 6.7 million euros. It happened – nothing. Zwanziger would turn the prosecutor or even can promote the recovery of money, after all, he was president until 2011. Zwanziger decided otherwise. He just waited to see what is out of the thing. The answer was the “mirror”.
answers could also give the Fifa, after the payment of Louis-Dreyfus was on their account. But the association is silent. Only the suspended president Sepp Blatter made the “world” to tell that he was not involved in the deal. One can believe. Or you can be there.
Speculation and accusations do not help in the workup, facts are needed. 6.7 million euros – what happened to the money? With each passing day, the silent participants to growing doubts about the legality of the deal.
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