“Pressure certificate of poverty”
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Union of Berlin’s President Dirk Zingler has hard attacked the competitors from the Bundesliga for their way of dealing with their women’s teams. “Every football club who has a professional team is able to pay his female football team appropriately,” said the 60-year-old on the occasion of the announcement of another term as Union leader. “When I see and hear that there are only four or five with twelve teams even in the Bundesliga who pay for women professionally, it is a miserable certificate of poverty in Germany,” said Zingler.
The entrepreneur emphasized that he was not about “justice” or “ideology”. It was “just not right to treat women’s football as a disabled sport and to say that we have to drive extra programs and make highlight games.” The media would also ignore women’s football too often. Union has with his Women’s selection This season as a second division champion the promotion to the Bundesliga done.
Zingler for four more years President of Union Berlin
Zingler was appointed as President on Monday by the association’s supervisory board for another term until 2029. The club boss is appointed by the Supervisory Board at the Bundesliga club from the eastern Berlin and is not elected by the members. Zingler has been in the highest office since 2004. “This stability is a major reason for our success,” said Zingler. “The proximity is not expressed by jubilee events,” added the 60-year-old to the election procedure.
The Union Presidium is expanded by two people to seven. For the first time in club history, this includes this with Katharina Kienemann, managing director of the Stadion-AG, and Jennifer ZietzSports director of the women’s team, two women. Media director Christian Arbeits also replaces the long-time presidium member Jörg Hinze.
Under Zingler, the Iron with their men’s team rose to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2019 and played three times in the European Cup from 2021 to 2024. In the past two seasons, the relegation in the end of the season has been secured.
“The next four years will shape the 1st FC Union Berlin in the long run. There are far-reaching decisions to make the professional football location around the old forester’s for future generations,” said the chairman of the supervisory board Thomas Koch. “Therefore, we are very happy that Dirk Zingler is available for a new term and look forward to further cooperation with him and his team in the Presidium.”