Coach Monika Staab has accused the German Football Association (DFB) of not doing enough in women’s football.
“Since 2011, since the World Cup in our own country, more or less nothing has happened in women’s football from the top,” said Staab at the “Neuland” future congress in Aachen: “We have to invest in the DFB. I hope that with the new leadership happened.”
You can see “what the other nations are pushing forward,” said Staab, who has also worked on behalf of the DFB in over 80 countries as a football development assistant and is currently in charge of the first women’s national team in Saudi Arabia: “In the Netherlands there is a National team game sold out in 24 hours. And we have 6,000 spectators two weeks before the European Championships in Erfurt. You have to ask yourself why that is.”
Staab also made the clubs responsible. “In my opinion, Bayern Munich would have the potential to have 10,000 spectators if they accompanied it accordingly,” she said and remembered: “Uli Hoeneß had the choice at the time whether to put the money into women’s football or basketball. He has decided to play basketball, you have to accept that.”
In the eyes of the 63-year-old, too many early engagements are too half-hearted. “For me, all Bundesliga clubs should also have a women’s team,” she said: “And then Borussia Dortmund starts in the district class. What is that? You have to get together with others and build something up.”