When speaking Franz Beckenbauer about the background of WM affair?
Franz Beckenbauer has admitted in the affair of the 2006 World Cup for the first time a “mistake”. The organizing committee should not have to respond to a proposal of the FIFA Finance Committee in order to obtain a financial grant, the former OC President said on Monday in writing.
So there could be at least the first small steps towards enlightenment this week. The key figure Beckenbauer wants to testify shortly before the investigators of the law firm “Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer” according to media reports. The former DFB president Theo Zwanziger even pushes it, as quickly as possible to meet with those people who have turned to the work-up of all allegations of German Football Association.
journalists from “Spiegel TV” had Beckenbauer visited on Sunday at the residence of Salzburg. In passing them said the head of the then World Cup organizing committee only: “The answers come.” With his written statement on Monday night he went a first step in this direction. The “Bild” newspaper also wrote previously about their columnists that the 70-year-old will “probably later this week” ask the investigators.
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Beckenbauer is everyone involved believes the only one who can answer all questions in this affair. He has at least negotiated noisy version of the DFB in 2002 in a four-on-one meeting with FIFA President Joseph Blatter those ominous payment of 6.7 million euros, which then made the former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus for the German OC Has. It should therefore also to know where this money is actually flowing.
Apart from a first statement on 18 October (“I let anyone money come to acquire votes for the award of the 2006 FIFA World Cup to Germany.”) has Beckenbauer in all the turbulent days last until Monday evening not commented on this affair.
In DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth, at the same time head of the Football Association Niederrhein, called previously for the first time an official or Active in the field of football exactly from him. “The base wants answers from their idols,” Frymuth said the “Rheinische Post” (Monday). “No one understands that not make some of their responsibility.” Belong to a thorough work-up, “that Beckenbauer and Netzer assist in the investigation. It’s about more than personal feelings – it’s about confidence in the football “
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Günter Netzer should Twenties have been in 2012 after the representation of the former federation chiefs at a meeting in Zurich that those 6.7 million euros had been used before awarding the World Cup to bribe four Asian Fifa officials. The world champion of 1974 and close confidante of Louis-Dreyfus died in 2009, the back, however.
© AP DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach met last week with Beckenbauer.
DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach met last week with Beckenbauer.
Due to such revelations is Zwanziger (“It is clear that there was a slush fund in the German World Cup bid”) as within the football scene primarily as a bogeyman. Apart from Frymuth no one had as yet demanded an explanation from Beckenbauer – but more and more prominent names publicly criticize the behavior Zwanziger. “I think it’s not good, that is already longer. I do not understand, you should not Nachtreten “said Uwe Seeler, honorary captain of the German national team, on Monday the German Press Agency.
Zwanziger wants to necessarily testify in the external investigators and present all the documents which it possesses. “Because the only way the truth can come to the table, which happens to be essential for the protection of my client,” as his lawyer Hans-Jörg Metz said in an interview to “Spiegel Online” at the weekend.
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"Spiegel TV" is Zwanziger struggled again on Sunday against the accusation of wanting to overthrow his statements only his intimate enemy and successor Wolfgang Niersbach. "I will not take office Mr Niersbach. I'm concerned he can because govern for another twenty years on. "The starting point of the whole affair was for him anyway," the right rotten system of Fifa, in the Beckenbauer had to stumble to even have a chance to bring this World Cup to Germany " .
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