After the resignation of the DFB President Reinhard Grindel is widespread speculation about who the successor in question. Here are the most important tasks facing the new DFB boss or the Boss.
The new man or the new woman at the top of the German football Association (DFB) is not to be envied. Because he or she will first have to bring once all the character properties that they denied the now-resigned unpopular President Reinhard Grindel: credibility and Compliance (i.e., compliant and ethically correct behavior), integration, communication and team skills, and sovereign crisis management.
The new DFB boss or the new Boss is on the DFB Bundestag at the 26./27. September in Frankfurt am Main selected. As usually after the resignations will initially speculated heavily, because who could succeed.
Philipp is Lame the new DFB boss?
Again and again, the Ex-national player Philipp Lahm and Christoph Metzelder are called, but other names are: Ex-national coach Silvia Neid, the Anti-corruption expert Sylvia Schenk, a record national player Lothar Matthäus, former team Manager Rudi Völler and DFB-Director Oliver Bierhoff, DFB General Secretary of the Friedrich Curtius, Ex-Minister of the interior Thomas de Maizière …
Whoever tosses the hat in the Ring, you must be aware that many sites are processed. Here, the most important are:
Structural reform of the DFB
If three DFB-President in the series in advance of the hat (have to), the Problem is actually on the Hand: The organization is in urgent need of Reform. Slender structures and professionals, to deal with the increased complexity of the football business.
Alienation of the Fans
Not for nothing, the game goes so well, like no Bundesliga, without having to hear from the Terraces and slogans against the DFB, or the appropriate Banner to be shown. Due to the progressive commercialization of football Fans feel left behind. Among other things, the increasing occurrence of make them to create prices, as well as the kick-off times, aiming at maximum profit, but not to the working hours of “normal” football fans. The extreme marketing of the DFB national team has contributed to the alienation.
Amateur football feels neglected
To combine not only the Fans, even to the Amateur, the DFB has lost the wire. The small clubs complain that the DFB put his attention almost exclusively to professional football and the Amateur only gängele. They are demanding among others, a higher financial injections, in particular in structurally weak regions.
Junior threatens to lose the connection
Germany has a football-Junior problem. This is also reflected in the results: The under-19 Team of the DFB failed in the European championship qualification U17 solved the EM-Ticket only as one of the best group runners-up. In the UEFA club of the Junior competitions, the Junior teams of the Bundesliga play virtually no role. Experts complain that in the training of talents, the wrong priorities are set.
Clear edge at the international level
The DFB needs to position itself to the continental Federation, UEFA and the world governing body FIFA more clearly than in the past. The inflation of the world Cup tournaments, the planned reforms of the club world Cup, the Nations Cup and also the Champions League would have a massive impact on German football. The DFB must be clear: He does not represent only the interests of the German professional clubs and the professional footballers, but also those of the Amateur kicker and the football fans.
Large-scale projects
For the beginning of may, the ground-breaking ceremony for the new DFB Academy in Frankfurt is planned. By 2021, a “competence centre for the whole of German football”, as it formulated the now retired DFB-chief Grindel. Among other things, to provide training in the future, the DFB-team. The DFB estimated construction cost of 150 million euros. Another major project is the European championship in 2024 in Germany, the need to be prepared.
Computer simulation of the future DFB-Academy on the site of the former Racecourse in Frankfurt
Elucidation of the affair to the 2006 world Cup
All the promises, in Spite of the DFB in the past three years, under Grindel little to bring light into the darkness of the dubious award of the 2006 world Cup in Germany. The Association is not acted, but reacted only to investigations by the justice or to press reports about the affair.