On Tuesday, the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), which multifunctional Koch also leads, confirmed Sinning’s nomination. “We are not standing in the way of such a democratic election, that is the message”, it says on the homepage of the BFV.
However, the supposedly democratic act is quickly seen as a tactical maneuver, because Prof. Silke Sinning belongs to “Team Peter Peters”, the candidate who is assigned to the professional camp of German professional football, which only represents a minority of the 262 delegates to the Bundestag puts.
It is questionable whether Sinning will even vote against Koch if Peters was previously defeated by Bernd Neuendorf in the presidential election.
Even if he did, the chef, known as the brilliant power broker, should be confident of victory, because he suspects at least the overwhelming majority of the votes from the amateur camp behind him.
In an interview with the sports show and the WDR magazine “Sport inside”, Koch had already claimed on Saturday (March 5th, 2022) that the Bundestag “much calmer and more harmonious” would than many believed.
He remained so even after the three former presidents had massively stirred up sentiment against him. “Koch is a crackpot, he lives from intrigue. His system is that of conjuring up false enemy images, of exerting pressure. I’m sure the delegates know from their own experience what I’m talking about. He’s only concerned with himself.”it says in the statement from Monday, which is available to the sports show.
There was no such bang on Tuesday, but there were also remarkable things to learn from the DFB cosmos. According to information from the sports show, three ethics assessors of the DFB sports court resigned their offices with immediate effect and also canceled their participation in the Bundestag for Friday.
reason is that Motion 41, which deals with the powers and distribution of tasks of the ethics committee. The assessors who have now resigned had complained that the application made by the DFB Presidium put the ethics chamber too close to the association and the key people. The trio called for changes. Since these were only marginal, the withdrawal followed.