A purchased Sommermärchen? – THE WORLD

At the end of it all was perhaps too good to be actually true. The over four weeks magical Weather in Germany , the playful so convincing football team and the summer fairy tale 2006, which also filmreif was released. The home World Cup nine years ago, so the tenor, an immense Imageaufwerter for Germany

Now was the worldwide reputation. But there are evil rumors about the tournament award. Was the summer fairy tale in 2006 bought only at the end? From resourceful officials? From renowned German football personalities such as Franz Beckenbauer and Wolfgang Niersbach? In short, was also Germany part of the Fifa-swamp that is drained these days cumbersome and increasingly perpetrators unearths

For the award of the FIFA World Cup? 2006 in Germany should have flowed from a slush fund of the Bid Committee after an unconfirmed report of the “mirror” of money. The news magazine reported online without citing sources on Friday to four crucial votes from the FIFA Executive Committee have been purchased.

The DFB had earlier in a Press release about inconsistencies granted a payment in the amount of 6.7 million euros to FIFA. The world’s largest football federation had “become aware that a payment of the organizing committee of the World Cup 2006 in the amount of 6.7 million euros was paid to FIFA in April 2005, which may not have been used for the specified purpose in accordance with instructions,” it says in the Statement. Actually, the money should be used for the cultural program of Fifa, with the at that time almost 50 cultural projects were supported around the World Cup. For such a program, there was ultimately not at all.

Where millions are actually flowed, according to DFB is still unclear. “A final result is to have not yet received, the initiated trials are still going on”, said the association. The DFB can also check whether it optionally has claims to a recovery of the money. There have however been no evidence “that votes of delegates were purchased as part of the application process”.

According to information of the “mirror” to the then Adidas- Chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus have the former World Cup bid committee borrowed 13 million marks as a private citizen. The money has been used according to the report, in order to win the votes of the four Asian representatives in Fifa ExCo for themselves. Together with the European representatives Germany came in 2000 when the vote to host the global championships in twelve votes. On Mitkonkurrent South Africa time accounted for eleven votes. The New Zealander Charles Dempsey had abstained. Louis-Dreyfus died in 2009. Adidas was on Friday did not comment on the allegations from.

Louis-Dreyfus is according to “mirror” the money and a half years have reclaimed before the World Cup. “Therefore investigated the OK, the Beckenbauer as president and as vice Niersbach belonged, in 2005 a way to repay the black money discreetly,” reports the magazine. In April then be 6.7 million euros to FIFA for precisely that alleged cultural program – have been paid and from there to an account of Louis-Dreyfus in Zurich

The DFB declined to comment on the published press release out. The management of Franz Beckenbauer, the former head of the organizing committee, was not ready upon request to submit its observations. The Fifa announced that the case had been forwarded to the Audit and Compliance Commission.

confirm, however, the allegations, and the DFB is roughed up from the hurricane, which rushes through the football. Niersbach, actually regarded as the successor of Fifa boss Blatter or Uefa president Michel Platini would then presumably no longer tenable. Rather than clean up the world football, he also would be burned as accomplices of an incredible offense.

Especially two questions are likely to deal with the football fans in the coming days and weeks around the world : Why should it be different with the German raced World Cup, the German federation than elsewhere? Why should this be an island of probity in a sea of ​​mud? It is probably a sad fact that there is no alternative. Who by FIFA – more precisely, by the members of the Executive Committee – wants something, obviously must lubricate and bribe. Underboss Blatter is a system of open hand and open pockets has established. The fact that the DFB and the organizing committee of the World Cup should have mitgemauschelt there in 2006, still would be outrageous. It would be another piece of the jigsaw in the ugly image of Fifa and one more reason to investigate the store in Zurich completely and possibly venturing with another federation a promising start.

The former DFB president Theo Zwanziger has ever demanded the complete withdrawal of the Executive Committee of FIFA. The scandalous World Association located themselves “in the hands of prosecutors and in the hands of the FBI,” Zwanziger told the “mirror” and emphasized that “. The remaining non-suspended members of the Executive Committee must resign closed” This includes Zwanziger successor as DFB boss and Executive Member, Niersbach.

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