Bonn (dpa) – DFL supervisory board chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke evaluates the results of the Bundestag of the German Football Association in Bonn very positively.
“Everything has actually changed with so many new people in the positions,” said Watzke after the presidential elections in Bonn. “It has always been disputed that it is a new beginning. But more of a new beginning is hardly possible anymore.”
The DFB Bundestag elected Bernd Neuendorf as the new president. The controversial top functionary Rainer Koch, on the other hand, 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.
DFL Managing Director Donata Hopfen congratulated 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. 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”.