Franz Beckenbauer has a vote-buying for hosting the 2006 World Cup firmly rejected and given largely unaware since the discovery of the affair in his first detailed opinion.
The accusation of bribery was “wrong, we still had no money,” said the 70-year-old the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. “Clearly, if we went there before awarding somewhere to Trinidad or elsewhere, then was clear, that we are there not to drink coffee, but because we wanted to have the voice. We have pointed out the value of our applications.”
In the SZ-week Beckenbauer took position extensively, but lost mostly in platitudes, “Fran tents” on the sensitive issues of time. So he had the dubious draft contract with the former FIFA vice Jack Warner from July 2, 2000 blindly signed
Beckenbauer:. “Have signed always blind”
“I have always signed blind if they have my signature hand “, the former OC President Beckenbauer said:”.. Just ask the Karl Hopfner via the 15 years in which I was president of FC Bayern that time he was responsible for the operational business will yet do not believe that I’ve only read a single agreement or a single document. Do not believe it, but that’s so! If I trust someone, I’ll sign anything. Blank. “
The payment of ominous ten million Swiss francs or 6.7 million euros to FIFA confirmed Beckenbauer, but gave himself ignorant of the exact backgrounds. His advisers and OC vice Fedor Radmann have the contract with the now lifetime locked Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam, a member of the FIFA Finance Committee threaded.
dubious FIFA Deal brings not Beckenbauer to ponder
“with whom we had the best contacts. Fedor came back at me and said, all right, I’ve talked to bin Hammam. We get 250 million Swiss francs. But we have the Finance Committee before pay ten million Swiss francs,” said Beckenbauer , The deal he does not want to have questioned: “I have only the 250 million seen me as a lesser Kaufmann stood even then the question..”
In the procurement of money Beckenbauer was the DFB on deaf encountered ears: “I have spoken because of the tens of millions with MV, Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, Brauns successor as president ‘has the same checkered flag:. You can not do that we do not make’. We know indeed the DFB. ” About Beckenbauer’s manager Robert Schwan then was the former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus became the funder what Beckenbauer wants but learn until much later: “This has then later as proven, about the end of 2004. Since the Dreyfus wanted his money back . “
Beckenbauer adopt clueless
Where previously the sum in question had come Beckenbauer did not initially questioned. Also with regard to the agreements signed by him promissory note he gave himself clueless: “I do not know to this day that I signed an IOU But when claiming that a promissory note was there, then it will be already been so I do it.. really do not. “
Nor cared Beckenbauer therefore whether the 6.7 million euros are really flowed to the Finance Committee. “We have never asked Maybe that was a mistake, but what would have brought the then who would have said:..?. Development Projects As’s are enough,” Beckenbauer said: “We wanted to organize the World Cup, everything else was damn me I have. Seen only 250 million. Thus, the World Cup was saved. “
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