Rudi Völler as DFB advisor: Rudi, save us – column

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Völler at his farewell party in Leverkusen in May

Photo: Marius Becker / dpa

Rudi Voller is back.

This is surprising because he only said goodbye a few months ago.

Now, according to »Bild«, Völler is said to be a member of a seven-person advisory committee of the DFB, which has nothing less to do than to prevent the DFB team from being totally disgraced again at the European Championships in Germany in two years.

Völler should save football, again.

He may have had other plans for his retirement, but that's good news for the rest of the country.

One might think that Rudi Völler is not the personality that brings German football forward.

The opposite is true.

Although Völler was only vice world champion as team boss of the national team in 2002, two years later he was eliminated from the European Championship in the preliminary round.

But his ability to survive 40 years in German football has earned him legendary status.

Above all, however, he has mastered the rhetorical genres of angry speech and insults against journalists ("I can't hear that shit anymore"), two important management tools that the DFB lost under Flick and Bierhoff.

One thing is clear: the hero is ready.

The only question is whether German football wants to be saved by Rudi Völler.