After twelve years, Oliver Kahn and ZDF end their collaboration. He is no longer working as a football expert.
Oliver Kahn (51) is no longer working as a ZDF football expert: After twelve years, the cooperation with the former national and world goalkeeper, who has been a member of the board of FC Bayern Munich since this year, announced the broadcaster on Friday. Kahn's last assignment was actually planned for the European Football Championship 2020 at the side of Oliver Welke (54), "due to the corona-related postponement of the tournament to the coming year, this is not possible," it continues.
"Oliver Kahn provided the viewers with a great deal of added value during our broadcasts of the international tournaments and the Champions League thanks to his expertise," thanks ZDF sports director Thomas Fuhrmann. "In the long period of cooperation, he analyzed the encounters with an independent eye".
"Great years at ZDF"
And Kahn is also full of praise: "I would like to thank ZDF for twelve great years – it was an important and formative phase in my life. I have had great tournaments and fantastic football games. I was able to learn, develop and I have get to know the world of the media up close and from a new perspective. "
It is not yet clear who will be Kahn's successor as a ZDF expert.