“Any decency lost”
Million action: Ex-boss twenties attacks the DFB
06.03.2025 – 3:11 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The judgment is still pending in the summer fairy tale process. However, the German Football Association has already filed a claim for damages against ex-President Zwanziger. He now attacks the association.
Former President Theo Zwanziger sharply criticized the German Football Association (DFB) for his legal approach to him. “I think the procedure of the DFB is unacceptable to combat a former president with a lawsuit of 24 million,” said twenties in the summer fairy tale process in Frankfurt am Main. He thinks it is “dishonest, indecent and unacceptable”.
The association submitted a claim for damages to the Frankfurt Regional Court about an amount in dispute of 24 million euros, as twenties and a regional court spokeswoman confirmed in January. At its core, it is about financial damage caused by the DFB by the summer fairy tale affair around the 2006 World Cup or could still be created.
“I’m not afraid of this lawsuit, but it doesn’t belong,” said Zwanziger. “This association runs through the area and speaks of Fair Play, but every decency has been lost to the association.”
In the current process, it is to clarify whether the DFB unjustifiably declared a payment of 6.7 million euros to the FIFA World Association from 2005 as an operating expenditure and thereby evaded taxes of more than 13 million euros. Twenties and the former DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach and the former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt have always strictly rejected the accusation made by the public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt.