After the award of the UEFA in Germany, as host of the European football championship in 2024 DFB President Reinhard Grindel can sleep again quietly. That his critics fall completely silent, but it is unlikely.
“It’s nice that we are experiencing a good day for the professionals and the Amateurs in Germany.” Reinhard Grindels words, immediately after Germany was awarded the contract for the European football championship in 2024, were certainly chosen with Care. Finally, the DFB-President in the past few months, from both the professional had as well as the Amateur camp to get strong against the wind. Professionals and Amateurs felt their interests were not sufficiently represented Germany’s top football official.
Prior to the decision of Nyon, the experts were largely agreed that Germany Should be allowed to the EURO 2024 will not align, and thus the Grindel proclaimed “great lighthouse project of the German DFB” failure, get rid of the DFB-President his Job. With the success of the Nyon Grindel pulled the head for the time being out of the loop. His critics are not silenced yet.
Nevertheless, the Ex-member of the Bundestag from a resignation to the EM-charge. Staff discussions he described as “superfluous”. He was going to do now to substantive issues, “such as the expect our national Association President and the League.” The Find the staff discussion totally superfluous, and wanted to, “the stops,” said Grindel.
Hopes not fulfilled
From the initial support of the world’s largest sports-individual Association Grindel, not much more is left. In April 2016, the DFB-Bundestag had chosen him with 250:4 votes for the successor, Wolfgang Niersbach, had resigned because of the scandal of the 2006 world Cup. Grindel, at that time CDU member of the German Bundestag, was seen as a great hope: The politics of hoped that one of their would look at the world Cup affair in a comprehensive and serious. The representatives of the Amateur hoped football, Grindel would strengthen its Position in the DFB compared with the professional clubs. Both expectations, the 57-Year-old was not fulfilled so far. And so the reservations were catching up with him, had expressed some prior to his election: Grindel had “no smell,” he said then. He was a football”layman” and a “world champion”.
Bad Crisis Management
Also in the affair of the images of national team players Mesut Özil and Ilkay Gündogan with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the world Cup, Grindelwald was not a good figure. There have been numerous demands for his resignation, including from politicians in Berlin. A clear line Grindels was in the work-up of the affair.
Crisis meeting in may, Löw (l.), Özil (2.v.l.), Gündogan (2.v.r.) and DFB-team Manager Bierhoff (R)
First he came as a critic (“The work of integration of the DFB have not helped our two players with this action.”), then he was again gracious (“people can make mistakes, and we must maintain the level.”).
Özil’s Football Shirt Attack
After the world Cup humiliation of the national team in Russia Grindel Özil put under pressure. The Fans, the DFB-in-chief at the time, the expected “right” answer özil’s football shirt to the questions to his appointment with Erdogan. Özil provided an answer that is not likely to have fallen Grindel. He resigned from the national team, but also complained about the “poor treatment of the DFB,” in particular by Grindel: “While I was trying Grindel my heritage, to explain my background and thus my reasons for the photo, was this interested in, rather, to talk about his own political views, and my opinion minimize,” wrote Özil at the end of July on Twitter.
Not exactly diplomatic
During the application period to the EURO 2024 Grindel was apparently also under the influence of rich football-not officials, just friends. According to research by the news magazine “der Spiegel” asked Grindel President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, in a letter to neutrality, after he had met with the Turkish President Erdogan. Infantino, the “mirror”, have expressed surprised and disappointed “by the tone and content” of the Grindels letter. In the case of the UEFA blackened Grindel the Dutch EM-choice man, Michael van Praag, and because of this have praised the EM application to the Turkey. Half wild, said the DFB to the two operations. The thing with Infantino have clarified Grindel in a personal conversation, and also between Grindel and van Praag, there was “no disagreement”. However, that the DFB was forced, the public image Grindels almost back, speaks volumes for the diplomatic skills of the DFB-heads.
Lahm has now more than enough to do
Grindel with the EM-Ambassador Lahm (R.)
Grindel is still elected until September 2019. Then, the DFB-Bundestag decides whether Grindel is allowed to continue or not – of course only in the event that he is running for another term in office. No competition, he has to fear for the time being of Philipp Lahm. After his crowned with success use as EM ambassadors of the 34-Year-old, who many saw as a possible successor to Grindels will not have to do as the head of the organizing Committee for 2024 so much that he comes as the new DFB President in question. At least not for the time being.