Investigation committee at the DFB: President Keller goes fully on the offensive

Monday, January 11, 2021

Investigation committee at the DFB
President Keller goes fully on the offensive

The German Football Association is seething: In the power struggle between Fritz Keller and Secretary General Friedrich Curtius, the DFB President is now rushing forward and wants to do educational work with an investigative committee. He no longer trusts Curtius – it's also about the 2006 World Cup.

The power struggle at the German Football Association (DFB) between President Fritz Keller and Secretary General Friedrich Curtius is getting tougher. Now President Keller is going on the offensive and probably wants to set up an internal committee of inquiry. This is reported by the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". Among other things, Keller wanted to have the indiscretions of the past months examined and factually processed.

According to the 63-year-old, the committee, which has never existed in this form in the history of the association, should include three or four colleagues from the executive committee and an auditor.

The DFB did not deny the process on "SZ" request. He only announced that the Presidium had decided in October "to work on more unity among the top management in order to look forward together in the interests of the association and all members." Therefore one wants to "neither comment on ongoing internal discussions, nor participate in external speculations". The newspaper concludes: The process illustrates the destroyed trust base in the association.

There is a power struggle at the DFB between Keller and Secretary General Curtius. According to "SZ" information, Keller wants to "provide all the information that I have available and that has made me no longer trust the collaboration with Friedrich Curtius".

A central point of contention is the handling of the work of the investigators from Esecon, who have been involved in the association for more than one and a half years. Her report on the so-called general inventory should be available at the end of January, including new insights into the inconsistencies surrounding the 2006 World Cup. "We have some new insights, and I am confident that we will be able to comment on this when the time comes," said Keller last year Said autumn.