After Neuendorf election
DFL Managing Director Donata Hopfen congratulated the new DFB President Bernd Neuendorf and pointed out the upcoming tasks for the association. “The DFB is facing enormous challenges and needs strong leadership in the interests of German football as a whole,” wrote Hopfen, head of the German Football League, on Friday. The DFB Bundestag in Bonn is “a great opportunity for a new beginning – for the DFB itself, but also for the relationship between DFB and DFL.”
Neuendorf had previously clearly prevailed against Peter Peters, the candidate for professional football, in the presidential election on Friday. “We look ahead and rely on a content-driven and trusting cooperation,” Hopfen explained.
DFL supervisory board chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke also rates the results very positively. “Everything has actually changed with so many new people in the positions,” said Watzke after the presidential elections on Friday in Bonn. “It has always been disputed that it is a new beginning. But more of a new beginning is hardly possible anymore.” The controversial top official Rainer Koch did not make it back to the presidency. “The DFB has to form up now, and we have to help with that,” said Watzke, who had led the association on an interim basis with Koch in recent weeks. As a top representative of the German Football League, Watzke also sits on the DFB executive committee.
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