Sepp Blatter for the DFB scandal: “I have never demanded money from Beckenbauer” – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The summer fairy tale 2006 draws a mudslinging among football officials after itself. In the center of the affair of the public undertaking given by SPIEGEL suspicion is, from a slush fund may be to bribe FIFA officials have been paid to the World Cup to bring 2006 to Germany. (Click here to read the facts about the DFB scandal.)

DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach denies that votes were bought. Why then the German organizing committee (OK) 6.7 million euros were paid to the Fifa, Niersbach said, citing Franz Beckenbauer as follows: With the money had the German Football Association (DFB) for a grant in the amount of 250 million Swiss francs for the organization of the 2006 World Cup secured. In a conversation between Beckenbauer and Blatter in January 2002, the grant had been promised. Niersbach but could not explain why FIFA has only called for 6.7 million euros, before she put the 170 million euro as grants available.

Now, Sepp Blatter spoke up – and contradicts Niersbachs version vehemently. “I have never demanded money from Beckenbauer. Never in my life. Not even by the DFB. That is simply not true”, the currently suspended head of the Football World Association of Newspapers said “Switzerland on Sunday.”

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in the mirror also has the former DFB boss Theo Zwanziger reported to the affair surrounding the award of the 2006 World Cup to word , He accuses his successor Niersbach to lie to the public. “It is clear that there was a slush fund in the German World Cup bid,” Zwanziger said (here the entire SPIEGEL article).

Also, he is attacked in the affair. The former Interior Minister Otto Schily told the “Bild am Sonntag”, it is questionable that Zwanziger in the affair “as a ‘prosecutor’” gesture. After all, what had been known, he should be “rather in the role of the accused see” Schily. Said

Zwanziger was on the organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup of finance executives. He assumes that Zwanziger “knew from the outset, the purpose for which it has exonerated the transfer of 6.7 million euros,” Schily said. He criticized the fact that the former DFB president had taken his time with the Enlightenment.

Blatter wants worthy finish at the FIFA

Not only the DFB scandal raises questions, why be in the football business millions reciprocating transferred. So is Fifa-Patriarch Blatter also about a payment more than two million Swiss francs to the UEFA president, Michel Platini, under pressure. The FIFA Ethics Committee had Blatter and Platini locked for 90 days.

A premature withdrawal before the election of his successor on February 26, graduated from Blatter. “I want after 41 years at FIFA a worthy finish,” he said. He received, among others, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping Supporting letters. Many national associations expressed their support. “This solidarity does very well,” Blatter said.

The 79 years old Blatter said the “Switzerland on Sunday,” he feel prejudiced themselves. Due to his suspension, he went to the payment of an unspecified but Platini.