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»It's time for change«: Jimmy Hartwig
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Soeren Stache / dpa
The former national player Jimmy Hartwig has announced a candidacy for the post of President of the German Football Association (DFB).
“It's time for change.
I want to be president of the DFB, "said the 66-year-old to the news channel" Welt ".
It is time for a »dark-skinned player, a former national player who has experienced all the ups and downs.
He knows what makes amateurs and youth teams tick «.
The previous DFB President Fritz Keller resigned in mid-May, and Vice-Presidents Rainer Koch and Peter Peters will lead the world's largest sports association on an interim basis until the next Bundestag.
Hartwig's candidacy is supported by Dagmar Freitag (SPD), the chairman of the sports committee in the Bundestag.
"Jimmy Hartwig is one of the most outstanding national team players in our country for many reasons, and not just because of his footballing skills," Friday said.
And it will "anyway time for Persons of Color to become a matter of course in the presidia of our sports associations."
Three German championship titles, two cancers
As a player, Hartwig was three times German champion with Hamburger SV, in 1983 he won the European Cup with the Hanseatic League.
After the career, he survived two cancers and became a stage actor.
In addition to Hartwig, the former national goalkeeper Katja Kraus is also traded as a presidential candidate, many other celebrities have already canceled.
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