Also, regardless of the EM-surcharge for Germany Reinhard Grindel doesn’t understand the fuss around his Person. The DFB President, criticized in an Interview once again, Ex-national player Mesut Özil.
DFB President Reinhard Grindel sees his Position is not compromised – regardless of the fact that Germany received the award for the football championship in 2024. “Because there was never any question that I have is the closed support of the regional associations and the Bundesliga, not from my point of view the question at all,” said Grindel in the “ZDF-morning magazine”: “is Not everything in the Newspapers, is always right.”
The 54-Year-old is elected to the DFB Bundestag at the end of September 2019 in Frankfurt am Main. As President, he had by the continental tournament in six years, “now, of course, more responsibility,” said Grindel, “because we must meet the expectations of UEFA, to do everything to ensure that the economy is a success.”
“I don’t think that’s right,”
Among other things, by the handling of the affair Mesut Özil Grindel was last publicly under pressure. In the ZDF Interview, the DFB-in-chief criticized the retired national players. “I don’t think it is in order that every communication will be denied,” said Grindel. National coach Joachim Löw have tried in the last few months “on the phone, via SMS, and now through his visit on the training grounds of Arsenal, really”. The DFB, Grindel, thanks to Özil “a lot. He has made a decisive contribution, that we have become 2014 world champion. But he has thanks to Jogi Löw a whole lot.”
Löw is disappointed by Özil
Löw said on the sidelines of the EM award in Nyon disappointed by özil’s football shirt behavior. “Logically, I would have hoped for me that a player who has worked so long with me, to call you personally. And if it is only for a Minute,” said the national coach. “That was always the case. I would have expected – especially from Mesut.” A debate with Özil, Löw, “is my heart”.
sn/ck (dpa, sid)