Franz Beckenbauer rejected in an interview with the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” allegations of corruption in connection with the award of Germany’s organization of the World Cup in 2006. Hid out gaps in memory and claimed that he signed in the dark all hands him the documents.
published in the Saturday edition of “SZ” conversation is the first interview granted by Beckenbauer from the scandal.
October 16 magazine “Der Spiegel” revealed that Germany’s candidacy for World Cup organizers had “supported” the sum of 6.7 million euro allocated to bribe FIFA activists. The German Football Federation (DFB) has rejected those accusations, but acknowledged that the amount handed over by FIFA.
When asked if the World Cup were bought, Beckenbauer said the allegation was false. We had no funds. We had nothing, we were stuck with grants from FIFA.
Beckenbauer admitted he did not know for what purpose it was allocated 6.7 million euros. He explained that “just wanted to FIFA.”
– I do not know why. Our mistake was that we asked – he said. He explained that he agreed to such a variant, instead of taking a bank loan because he wanted to have a problem “as soon as possible from the head.”
He added that the question of destiny would yield little money. – Answer: for development projects. We wanted to organize the World Cup, everything else I had in the nose. I thought only about 250 million. It rescued tournament – Beckenbauer explained in an interview with “SZ”. The former footballer was chairman of the organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup.
Beckenbauer signed a “blank”
Asked about the agreement with the then vice-president of FIFA Jack Warner, in which members of the Committee Executive promised certain benefits, Beckenbauer also hid out gaps in memory.
– Just everything I signed, I signed up blank. I had in mind not only the World Cup, but also many other issues. I was president of Bayern Munich – he explained.
The agreement confirmed the interim president of the German federation Rainer Koch. – It was not any cash consideration, but among others, arrangements for the games, helping coaches in the zone of the CONCACAF or to provide Warner a specified pool of tickets to meet the World Cup – said Koch.
The prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt implemented at the beginning of November an investigation against the president of the German Football Federation DFB, Wolfgang Niersbachowi and his predecessor, Theo Zwanzigerowi on suspicion of very serious fraud. The DFB rooms and apartments suspects have been carried out searches – German media reported at the time. Niersbach meanwhile stepped down from his position.
The reason for the investigation was to implement by the organizing committee of the football World Cup in Germany in 2006 the amount of 6.7 million euros of the International Football Federation (FIFA).
Niersbach provides all the time that there was not a secret fund, or bribe the occasion to choose the organizer of the World Cup 2006. According to him, Beckenbauer and Sepp Blatter had a meeting “face to face” in January 2002, during which the FIFA President spoke of a subsidy amounting to EUR 170 million (250 Swiss francs) to help the Germans in the tournament. To unlock the subsidy, the Financial Committee of FIFA, however, demanded 10 million Swiss francs (6.7 million euros) and this sum had to pass the late head of the Adidas Group, Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
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