Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will meet the head of the German Football Association in Frankfurt on August 9, a government spokesman announced in Berlin. Among other things, it is about the issue of equal pay for women and men in football.
It is also particularly important to the Chancellor to meet the national soccer players and national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg again in the near future. He invited the team to visit the Federal Chancellery when they visited the final of the European Championship in London, which Germany lost to England 2-1 after extra time on August 31.
Scholz had already said that he had made an appointment with DFB director Oliver Bierhoff to talk about pay in women’s and men’s football, among other things. He would meet Bierhoff on the DFB campus in Frankfurt am Main, Scholz told ARD halfway through the European Championship final at London’s Wembley Stadium. You will not “hang around” about the issue of payment in football. “I am firmly convinced that equal pay plays an important role, especially when it comes to competitions like this.”
Scholz had already called for equal pay for women and men in sport in the preliminary round of the European Championship on Twitter – especially in national teams – and thus further fueled this debate. Bierhoff then suggested a conversation with Scholz.