Berlin (dpa) – The highly explosive allegations about an alleged purchase of votes in the awarding of the 2006 World Cup deal with the German Football Association. The association rejects the charges from the “mirror” accusations with power and threatened with legal countermeasures. Both nevertheless internal investigator elucidating the matter will assume the DFB as well as FIFA. The focus should thereby also the makers of the summer fairy tale are – and a former Adidas chief
Franz Beckenbauer: His world travels as head of the German World Cup bid have long been legendary.. The football Kaiser jetted seemingly tirelessly around the globe and even campaigned in the South Seas charming for a World Cup in Germany. Largely because of these perfectly staged PR tour Beckenbauer is regarded as the man who brought the World Cup in his homeland. It was his coronation as a sports official. After the World Cup was the world champion of 1974 four years a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. In summer of 2014 he was then briefly banned by FIFA because he 2018 and 2022 gave the investigators initially no information on the controversial awarding of World Cups to Russia and Qatar. Today the 70-year-old has no top official.
Wolfgang Niersbach: As media director and vice president of the organizing committee Niersbach made a career at the DFB. “From the first minute on” he was at the World Cup bid process of the current president of the largest sports trade association in the world like assured. Niersbach then coordinated public relations, so shaped the image of the 2006 World Cup with crucial. A scandal surrounding the award of the tournament would Niersbach today just as inconvenient as it was then. The DFB boss would therefore probably out of the running for the top job at FIFA and UEFA. His association appoints the revelations of the “mirror” as groundless.
Fedor RADMANN Where Beckenbauer appeared on its World Cup promotion tour, Radmann was usually not far away. The busy consultant was behind the scenes as well Strippenzieher a crucial figure in front of the World Cup award in Germany. Then the native of Berchtesgaden the World Championships organizing committee initially belonged to the vice president, but had to resign because of his various consulting contracts. With luck, he became involved later as managing director of the Salzburg bid for Winter Olympics 2014 and Australia’s bid for the World Cup 2022. Both failed attempts.
Theo Zwanziger: The later DFB boss moved for Radmann as vice president in the organizing committee after. There, the lawyer for Finance, Personnel and Legal Affairs was responsible. 2011 took over the place of Twenties Beckenbauer in the FIFA administration. With his successor Niersbach Zwanziger has since fallen out. Even the World Association and its scandal-ridden president Joseph Blatter attacked Zwanziger last to vehemently. Here, the 70-year-old also criticized the dubious award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Horst R. Schmidt: The former DFB General Secretary was one of the central figures for World Cup bid and organization. He was considered the right hand Beckenbauer, as the brain of the German World Cup. By 1974 he had co-organized the World Cup in Germany, before the 2010 World Cup brought him the FIFA as Nothelfer to South Africa. As an honorary member of DFB, he was in 2013 retires. To award the 2006 World Cup he said on Sky: “I was not aware of a slush fund, the votes have not been purchased..”
Robert Louis-Dreyfus: The former Adidas chief was until his death in July 2009 as one of the most colorful figures of the European sports scene. The Frenchman comes a billionaire entrepreneur family and referred to himself as “football crazy”. The “Mirror” now reported Louis-Dreyfus was the German bidding committee privately borrowed 13 million Mark. This money could possibly have been used for deciding to buy votes in the FIFA administration for choosing the host of the 2006 World Cup. Although the DFB admits absurdities to a sum in the comparable amount of 6.7 million euros, but denies slush funds and the purchase of votes. Adidas did not comment.
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