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Want to be DFB President: Peter Peters
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The power struggle at the German Football Association (DFB) is coming to a head.
One of the regional associations has now confirmed the nomination of Peter Peters and Bernd Neuendorf.
The Westphalian Football and Athletics Association (FLVW) wrote on Monday morning that it had "submitted two candidate proposals for the future President of the German Football Association (DFB)".
The "kicker" had previously reported on the process.
This is exciting insofar as the total of 21 regional associations apparently could not agree on a common candidate, as originally planned. Now Peters and Neuendorf could run for a fight. Peters is considered a candidate for the professional area in the DFB, Neuendorf, President of the Mittelrhein Football Association, and is the favorite of the amateur camp. The amateur representatives reject a dual leadership.
»The DFB is facing major challenges and changes.
That is why it is important for us in Westphalia to start this new beginning with a real democratic process «, association president Gundolf Walaschewski is quoted in the statement from the FLVW.
He is happy to have a program and a team introduced by both candidates.
"There are two candidates with great potential and lots of ideas for German football," added Walaschewski.
The Presidium had "unanimously" voted in favor of the two candidates' proposal.
Actually, the amateur representatives wanted to name a common candidate by this Monday.
The election will take place at the Bundestag on March 11, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main.
Last week, Peters told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he was running for president, "if I get the support of the league and I am proposed by a regional association of amateurs," said the former CFO of FC Schalke 04. Peters had also announced that he would resign from his offices at the German Football League (DFL) this year.
He is currently head of the DFB on an interim basis with Rainer Koch after Fritz Keller resigned in May.
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