Presidential candidate Peter Peters can “in principle” imagine chief critic Uli Hoeneß, the honorary president of FC Bayern, in a control function at the German Football Association.
“Good, experienced and also critical minds are always good for us and the DFB,” said Peters, who wants to be elected the new DFB boss at the ordinary Bundestag on March 11, the “Sport Bild”.
The longtime Bayern President Hoeneß had recently railed against the association. “There used to be the DFB, at the moment it doesn’t exist for me,” Hoeneß said on “ZDF”: “It’s just a quarreling bunch that deals with itself, but not with the problems of football.”
Peters reported that he “wrote a personal letter to Hoeneß for his 70th birthday”. The current co-interim president of the DFB and outgoing supervisory board boss of the German Football League added that he did not know whether Hoeneß was interested in a post in the DFB at all.
In the election in March, competitor Bernd Neuendorf, president of the Mittelrhein Football Association (FVM), is the favorite due to the support of the amateur camp.
But Peters sees himself well prepared, especially because of his fellow campaigners Silke Sinning (Vice President) and Ralf Viktora (Treasurer). “They know all the problems of the DFB from the point of view of the 21 regional associations and are ready to tackle them with me,” said the 59-year-old.
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