Rudi Völler succeeds Oliver Bierhoff as managing director of the German national team at DFB. As the ‘Bild’ reports, this is the result of today’s meeting of the task force tasked with finding a suitable candidate.
In addition to Völler himself, Oliver Kahn, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Oliver Mintzlaff and Matthias Sammer are on the newly established board. Hans-Joachim Watzke and DFB President Bernd Neuendorf are said to have been present at today’s meeting.
For Völler it is the second post he has taken on at the DFB. Between 2000 and 2004, the 62-year-old, who currently sits on Bayer Leverkusen’s shareholders’ committee, was head coach of the national team. Fredi Bobic, currently under contract with Hertha BSC, was also a candidate. However, according to ‘Sky’, the commitment of the 51-year-old was not financially viable for the association.
