In comparison to the predecessor, Reinhard Grindel Fritz Keller can only win. However, the designated DFB President starts with a Rucksack full of problems, says Joscha Weber.
The consensus candidate for German football: Fritz Keller is supported by Amateurs and professionals.
The leading officials of the German Amateur and professional football came thick and fast this Wednesday to formally praise for the President-elect of the German football Association (DFB): “Authentic,” “credible”, “social”, “understands football”, “a down-to-earth person,” “represents a values-Canon”, “personable”, “professional and character convincing,” “an extraordinary personality” – to name only a few examples. Translated into football language this means: Fritz Keller is a reflex of strong goalkeeper, mastered the defense, can win in the midfield and the game draw, is quick as an arrow on both wings and as a striker from all of the layers. Oh Yes, an excellent coach, groundsman and folders, too. In short: Fritz Keller you trust everything. And it is precisely here that the first Problem is its not even started in office is located.
The DFB is not afraid of a real debate of the candidates
The expectations of the next Boss of German football are enormous. Actually, he can fail at them only. It is rarely good advice, to overwhelm a candidate so with advance praise, because even the brightest minds can just not everything. And he would have to actually – in front of him a mountain of tasks piling up: Fritz Keller is to promote Polish in the national as well as international battered reputation of the DFB again, not to underestimate the rift between professional and Amateur football to a kitten, the work – up of the scandal to the world Cup 2006, forward, the gap in the youth work in comparison to Nations such as France are catching up, the women in the Association, finally giving a voice to the professional football, the free space for new sources of revenue, and the national team has the necessary structures to give back to the world top manufacture.
DW sports editor Joscha Weber: “The DFB should have been the car to Grindel for more democracy – no need to.”
The second Problem: Behind the election of the President of the SC Freiburg in the DFB-boss, a stain will remain, for he can, strictly speaking, nothing. His proclamation to the next President of the DFB was anything other than a democratic process. A six-member search Committee of top officials of the DFB and the German football League (DFL) said only with a single candidate: Fritz Keller. All the others ignored them. For example, Ute Groth, who wanted to be the first woman at the helm of the DFB. As President of the düsseldorf-based Amateur club, she had no Chance, no state or regional Association has suggested to you. This will probably not change anything, because the DFB was looking for and found a consensus candidate. The search Committee drew everything in predictable orbits. A competition of ideas, visions and opinions did not take place. The DFB would have left after the disastrous image, the predecessor Reinhard Grindel, with its go-it-alone behind, more democracy to the car – no need to.
The basement gives a lot of Power – too much?
Keller’s third Problem depends on the experience of his retired predecessor: the Power of The President will be significantly curtailed. How the presidency itself has also been tied in back rooms that the basement will not seek to Offices in the case of FIFA and UEFA and these leaves instead, his Deputy Rainer Koch. Even with the planned splitting of the DFB in a GmbH and a registered Association in the basement is Power: The former Secretary-General Friedrich Curtius to lead the financially more important GmbH, basement take care of in the e. V. the issues of Amateur, women’s and referees. Although the basement floor acts as a permanent application, this is indeed credible. However, in the enforcement of his visions and reforms, the Power could be split to a big hurdle.
Many are now saying that Fritz Keller is the right candidate. Rightly so, because already for a long time, the DFB had no such integrative and of all the Store carried-out a leader, which advertises open to change. But whether that will be enough for a successful presidency depends on whether the Association is ready to change.