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Adenauer-Kel wants to become a FC president
Updated on May 20, 2025 – 3:50 p.m.Reading time: 72 min.
The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.
The 1. FC Köln is looking for a new presidium. Sven-Georg Adenauer announced his candidacy as FC President on Tuesday. The CDU politician and grandson of Konrad Adenauer wants to be voted Werner Wolf’s successor at the general meeting in autumn.
For this, the 65-year-old has joined a team with the management consultant Thorsten Kiesewetter and the butcher Martin Hollweck. However, since this trio around Adenauer is not proposed by the member council, it must first collect around 4,500 signatures from FC members before it can be elected in September.
The 1. FC Köln may not only look forward to the ascent, but also to the whereabouts of a top performer. Linton Maina has extended his expiring contract and goes back to the Bundesliga together with the “billy goats”. On the way to the ascent, the outdoor car player had prepared eleven goals-most of all FC professionals.
After the successful season finale against Kaiserslautern (4-0), Maina announced in the stadium: “I signed with a Bundesliga club five or six weeks ago. At an association that can now be called Bundesliga club again.” At 1. FC Köln, where he has been playing since 2022 and feels comfortable.
9:41 p.m.: Tobias met our reporter in the KVB train. He had something unusual with him: a piece of the lawn from the RheinEnergieStadion. “I wasn’t in the stadium myself. I share the season ticket with my buddy,” explains Tobias. “He was in the stadium and brought the piece from the lawn. We experienced many ascents, but none on the last match day”.
8:09 p.m.: Almost parallel to the ascent and the championship of the 1st FC Köln, Galatasaray Istanbul won the Süper Lig. Fans of the association are now also flocking to the rings. Together, “Lu, Lu, Lu, Lukas Podolski” is tuned, as a reporter reports on site. Lukas Podolski played at Galatasaray Istanbul from 2015 to 2017. The police are increasingly announcing to ignore the ignition of pyrotechnics.
video | Fans celebrate on the rings
6:39 p.m.: FC fans are extensively celebrating on the Cologne rings. The mood is exuberant, but peaceful, as a reporter reports on site. The police are on site and monitors the action. The road is still open for traffic, but cars are slowly coming through.
6 p.m.: Although FC was able to win the championship in addition to promotion to the 1st Bundesliga, there will be no reception in the town hall for the team. The city announced this at the request of T-Online. Read more about it here.