WM affair – Beckenbauer admits errors a – Frankfurter Rundschau

October 26, 2015

Franz Beckenbauer wants to talk to the investigators. Photo: Fredrik von Erichsen / dpa

Franz Beckenbauer admits in the affair of the 2006 World Cup for the first time an “error” field. The organizing committee should not have to respond to a proposal of the FIFA Finance Committee in order to obtain a financial grant.

Munich –

Franz Beckenbauer breaks in the summer fairytale affair his silence and admits the first time its own “mistake” a. Although the 70-year-old once again denied vehemently a vote-buying ahead of the 2006 Football World Cup and reached indirectly former DFB president Theo Zwanziger, but had otherwise continued many questions unanswered.

“To to obtain a financial grant of Fifa, was scheduled on a proposal by the FIFA Finance Committee, to the participants from today’s perspective should have to reject, “Beckenbauer told about his management on Monday evening in writing. “For this mistake I wear as president of the then organizing committee responsible.” He had answered all questions at a hearing of the external investigation committee of the German Football Association on Monday.

With his statement was based Beckenbauer, the version of the ailing DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach, who had called at a press conference on his longtime companions on Thursday. Accordingly, Beckenbauer said to have achieved in 2002 with the World Association boss Joseph Blatter agreement on a payment of 6.7 million euros to FIFA. With the money, the association should have secured a grant in the amount of 250 million Swiss francs for the organization of the 2006 World Cup.

Blatter had a meeting with Beckenbauer and also to receive a payment more than once have denied. “I have never demanded money from Beckenbauer. Never in the life. Not even by the DFB. That is simply not true “, the currently suspended Fifa chief said last

Beckenbauer again stressed:”. There have been purchased no votes to win the bid for the 2006 World Cup, “he would now not express “differently from the other party, whose behavior I feel partly as unspeakably,” continued publicly he continued

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Much more open

A heavy sideswipe against Zwanziger, who had the day before also expressed about Beckenbauer. 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,” Zwanziger said at “Spiegel TV”. The former DFB president said after Beckenbauer’s message now: “I’m glad that the Franz has finally said something,” Zwanziger told the newspapers of the “editorial Network Germany” and saw this as confirmation.

With its 13-line statement Beckenbauer leaves many questions unanswered. For example, continues to be the key point of the affair unanswered: Who exactly was the payment from Germany when to whom

The public statement pressing Beckenbauer had previously continued to grow?. DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth, at the same time head of the Football Association Niederrhein, had called for the first official investigation of 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 “

With” Plan “ “” text “> wants the Uefa lead the tumbling football’s world governing body from the crisis and sends general secretary Gianni Infantino in the election to Blatter Succession. Then the ExCo members of the European Football Union agreed on Monday after a teleconference. Too big were obviously doubts to triumph with its currently suspended President Michel Platini. The failed on Monday with his formal appeal to the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.

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Günter Netzer should Zwanziger 2012 after the representation of the former federation chiefs at a meeting in Zurich have confessed 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 the 2009 deceased Louis-Dreyfus, the back, however.

stands Due to such revelations Zwanziger (“It is clear that there is a slush fund in the German World Cup -Bewerbung gave “) within the football scene primarily as a bogeyman because. More and more prominent names publicly criticize the behavior Zwanziger.
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. (dpa)

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