Requests for a secret ballot
The situation is different in the elections for the vice presidents. However, there are applications from state associations that demand that all votes should be secret. As a result, Koch’s opponents hope that delegates from the amateur camp will decide in favor of “Team Peters”, which should be seen as a clear sign against the current interim president Koch in a public vote.
prerequisite for the end of “System Cook” may be, “that all delegates can decide on the future of the DFB in secret elections and without pressure”read the statement from the trio of former presidents.
Koch rejects allegations
Grindel and Keller, who failed prematurely as presidents, had already emphasized to the Sportschau and the WDR magazine “Sport inside” that the new start promised by the two presidential candidates Peters and Neuendorf would hardly be possible if Koch was still on the presidency.
Rainer Koch rejected allegations of intrigue and piercing. He told the sports show: “The statements made by Reinhard Grindel and Fritz Keller are absurd. They are general defamatory statements without any facts and any substance. The fact is, however, that only personal misconduct led to the resignations of the two gentlemen.”
“I suffer the most from it myself”
The “piercings and slurs” complained of have “in fact been there for many years. They are a great evil and are undoubtedly partly responsible for the bad image of the DFB.”
However, according to Koch, he “suffers the most from it himself. I too have been targeted with malicious untruths for a long time.”