Let us imagine a fictional conversation three years ago. Two football fans sitting at the bar, drinking a fresh draft beer and talk about their favorite sport. What would have happened if one would have said: “You, I think, in 2015 sits Uli Hoeness in prison, and Franz Beckenbauer is the central figure in a scandal around the 2006 World Cup”? Cracking on the leg, the opposite would have beaten laughter. Or alternatively hailed the host and asked him what brandy had consumed his opposite number in secret, he would have liked so one. Hoeness and Beckenbauer, the luminaries of German football, so in awkward positions. Yes mei san’s narrisch?
Sometimes you have a step recede into the past in order to understand what is really happening now. Hoeness sits a tax evasion. And Franz Beckenbauer? He seems to have made quite dirty his fingers before the 2006 World Cup.
Even the “image” that has for years supplied by the German honorary captain with columns, now subtitled: “The deep case of the emperor”. And at the German Football Association, the Beckenbauer would have to be given its merits connected actually in eternal fidelity, is wanted by the further misdeeds of the world champion. At the bar in 2013, one would get shown for this prediction more than the bird -. If not worse
A document they have already found the DFB, the Beckenbauer compromised. It led on Monday to resign from DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach. A contract it should be between the German Organizing Committee and Jack Warner, the largest Filzkugel of Fifa, signed by Beckenbauer. There ticket quotas, friendlies and trainer training were promised when …
Yes, if what? Presumably, when Warner as Executive Committee member of the German proposal is his voice. The contract should not have come to completion, it is said, and allegedly also not true Warner for Germany. “I had with anyone from Germany’s organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup any agreement,” Warner wrote on Wednesday in a statement.
Beckenbauer to get involved
But only the appearance of corruption reached to auszuknipsen the greatest luminary of German football the halo. Finally, all participants swore always the impeccable purity of the German World Cup bid. As if such a thing in Fifa morass would be really possible.
Beckenbauer was the boss. He organized the application and then the World Cup. When crooked things are gone, then he must have known about it. Investigators of the law firm “Freshfields” who just take any piece of paper at the DFB under the microscope will eventually present what they have found. Only then will can appreciate how great the damage is real for the German football -. And for Beckenbauer
“Too Big To disconnect, good friends are never alone, “he trilled once, when he was still a” was Kaiserlein “. The Friends of Beckenbauer is legendary. It includes business magnates, football functionaries, old companion – even journalists. Some crumble straight away, so apologized “Sport Bild” editor in chief Alfred Draxler recently at the “mirror” and its editor in chief, because he had the research been questioned and beaten unconditionally to the other side. And Rainer Koch, the Bavarian state president, who took over on an interim basis Niersbachs items admonished towards Beckenbauer: “We have a request that he take a closer brings to the elucidation of the processes.” And after Beckenbauer has already testified at “Fresh Fields”.
“would like to see a more sensitive handling of Beckenbauer”
But it also come to his friends aside. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, for example. “I’m not an insider in this not very sympathetic story. But Franz Beckenbauer was my coach, my captain and president. He has done for Bayern Superior. If a friend is in trouble, then you have to stand by his side. And the we will do well at Bayern, “said the CEO of FC Bayern.
And with a touch of disdain in his voice he said: “I understand that the DFB must have the greatest interest that the whole matter must be cleared up . But I would like to see a little more sensitive handling of the person Franz Beckenbauer, because I believe that the DFB has quite a lot to thank the person. “
a more sensitive approach? To date, the largest sports federation in the world had really only gently called for that one would wish more cooperation. And this is in view of the fact that the emperor’s new silence Niersbach likely have cost his head, formulated extremely defensive. But perhaps Beckenbauer and Rummenigge are more than ever a suffering community. Even the role of the FC Bayern ahead of the World Cup award moves now into the focus of investigators. Three friendlies in Malta, Thailand and Tunisia attended the champions before the vote on the World Championship in 2006. In all cases, the champions were rewarded with “market prices,” said Rummenigge.
And yet it seems as if the FC Bayern and its then president Beckenbauer could have fired with their behavior ultimately successful World Cup bid appears. After all, the friendly matches not only brought the Munich a honorary one, but also the opponents. This is surprising, because normally paid only for a cameo appearance by the German figurehead. In these cases, however, the hosts got money for it. The raft on the Company “KirchMedia” and CWL, “which referred to the actually pretty worthless television rights respectively 250,000 and 300,000 euros to the respective associations.
Big Bucks for Malta
“Four months after the FC Bayern has signed the contract, I was informed that $ 250,000 have fallen from heaven into our union treasury,” said the current Maltese Association boss Norman Darmanin Demajo the “Mail on Sunday”. As the former treasurer he had asked for the reason and discovered that Josef Mifsud, his predecessor as association leader, has signed the agreement on their own and without the knowledge of other officials, “what he did was not allowed, according to statutes “.
If the FC Bayern therefore sent quasi as the Incarnate bribe the globe? The Maltese Mifsud was eligible to vote as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee in relation to the WM 2006. Likewise, the Thais Worawi Makudi and the Tunisian Slim Aloulou.
it came to Malta on Monday to a search of the offices of the Football Association. Secretary Bjorn Vassallo said the “Times of Malta” that officials had wanted a unit of economic crime for documents that could contribute to the elucidation of the World Cup scandal. The “Mail on Sunday” had reported that she had documents that prove a lucrative television deal was sealed during a secret meeting of the former Association President Mifsud with Beckenbauer in 2000th It was about said television rights for the friendly match between Malta and the Bayern 2,001th
Mifsud said on Monday that he could not remember whether Beckenbauer really this was when the TV contract between the Maltese Association and the Swiss TV rights agency “CWL” was signed in June 2000 at his home. Malta had voted in Mifsud term for awarding the World Cup to Germany. “CWL”, which in the company “Infront” opened in 2002, was founded in 1986 by Günter Netzer, who later in “Infront” the rank of “Executive Director” worked. Netzer was also World Cup ambassador and worked as such closely with Beckenbauer. Good friends also.
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