DFL boss Christian Seifert believes the German Football Association (DFB) is in urgent need of reform.
Berlin - It is "completely irrelevant who will be the next DFB President on the basis of the current structures and responsibilities," said the managing director of the German Football League in an interview with the "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
"The DFB is a dysfunctional system that needs a structural change."
The DFL managing director, who is leaving at the end of the year after 17 years, continued: “In my time I have seen several DFB presidents and several general secretaries, and so I can judge that the DFB has been in better shape in the past than it was Today is."
A new DFB boss is to be elected at the Bundestag on March 11, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main.
Since the resignation of Fritz Keller, Rainer Koch and Peter Peters have led the association on an interim basis.
In addition to Peters, Bernd Neuendorf is also running.
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Seifert made fun of the DFB position of treasurer in the interview and said with reference to a series: "That sounds a bit like 'Game of Thrones'." Organization, and he shouldn't have to go to this treasurer again, because that's what the statutes say ”.
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