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A “catastrophic picture”, a “sinister process”: Dirk Zingler, president of the Bundesliga club Union Berlin, has harshly criticized the German Football Association and the director of the DFB, Oliver Bierhoff.
The DFB has “given a catastrophic picture in recent years,” Zingler said on the club’s own club television: “Not just because of staffing problems in recent weeks and months, but simply because of the path that has been taken there. “.
The team, according to Zingler, plays “according to television schedules, according to brand policy. What kids watch football from 9 pm to 11 pm when they have to go to school the next day?” We must return to “letting football play for the people, putting the people at the center, not exaggerating with commercialization, with a show in the stadium.”
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It is time to “give the football of the German team back to the people”, said Zingler: “What happens is a complete mistake for me, and I blame Oliver Bierhoff for that, who wanted to make a mark with the German team.”
The head of the union talks about the alienation of the fans
the Berlin newspaper The 56-year-old said that the development of the national team towards the ‘Die Team’ brand has alienated them from the true football fan from year to year: “This is a sinister process that started a long time ago.”
During the appearances of those responsible in the last interviews, according to Zingler, he felt exactly this “alienation. You can lose 0: 6, but what effect it really has on the football fan is not discussed, but it will.” discussed in terms of sport. “This shows him that” some gentlemen from the German Football Association have totally lost their connection to the true football fan, “he said on the club’s television.
Zingler believes that “negative development in the DFB also has a negative impact on club football. We need to take urgent action.”
