Matthias Sammer was not relaxed as long as he drove back to Munich on Saturday. A burden had fallen from him. The lady from the navigation system he whispered advice on routes, while wife Karen was listening with half an ear, as her husband responded to questions. They had spent the night before some quality time at the "Stanglwirt in Tyrol, where the" 20 Weißwurstparty was celebrated.Now he had time to talk about things that moved him. On Friday he was in fact not only traveled to celebrity parties, but also previously to Frankfurt in the headquarters of his employer, the German Football Federation (DFB), where he was sports director since 2006. And there it was not nearly so loose as to later in Austria.
On the edge of the DFB board meeting, there was only one topic, the flirt of the European champion from 1996 with SV Hamburg, who wanted to commit him as a sports director. The day culminated in a refusal, which amounted to a resounding slap. 15.59 clock sent the Football Association issued a press release titled: "Sammy is sports director of the DFB.
The HSV was disgraced. It was the end of a hopeful Liaison: For weeks, Sammer and HSV-bosses negotiated behind the scenes, moved closer and finally met last Tuesday in a big group. Eight of the twelve supervisory board members traveled to Hanover, where they presented Sammer half hours in his approach.
The two sides parted with the good feeling of having taken a decisive step. In the evening, everything was wiped out. It only knew nobody. The Supervisory Board met - for the first time in a new composition - and the newly elected Chair of the highest club committee was then presented to the press.
"We hope that we can realize the identity in a few days," said Ernst-Otto Rieckhoff, asked for Sammer. This statement should have a devastating effect. For it was first made public what was until then only been whispered behind closed doors. And the startled Sammer's employer: DFB president Theo Zwanziger, who had been notified by then neither of the HSV Sammer still officially called now clear.
"I want to on Friday by Matt a clear statement," he said on Thursday. And he stayed. "I was hoping to get a few days to discuss certain things. But the DFB a clear answer from me would have. I gave him, "Sammer said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag". He said from the Hanseatic League and does now accusations against its chairman Rieckhoff: ".
His comments have planned timings made impossible, and ultimately has rendered a quick decision had to be taken" by the pressure of the DFB he had not enough time all details of its commitment to prepare claims, Sammer: "I could not promise anything on Friday, which would have been interesting, but not yet complete and was discussed in major media." Especially with his wife and three children with whom he lives in Munich , not all had been resolved: "We wanted to discuss the weekend more concrete solutions.
It was always clear, no hasty and not to take over decisions discussed. "So all failed due to leaks of the Hamburg Board? Ernst-Otto Rieckhoff contradicts Sammer. The "world" he said yesterday: "I prefer not to me the shoe, the Sammer has since put forward as a reproach. I feel guilty in any case not his ruptured obligation.
We had "The newspapers have been so much detail that was nothing there anyway," as the board of HSV and I, as head of the body are kept in what was arranged. What we could still be treated as secret, "said The 59-year-old: "Why should we rumeiern in the state of negotiations? We wanted to confess and say.
"Yes, we want to work together with Matthias Sammer '" Then pushes Rieckhoff after a crucial sentence: "With him was voted" Is the Sun? According to non-Sammer: "On Tuesday morning, after I have met with representatives of the Board, the opinion was to make no comment in the evening. Or comment on so that my situation is respected.
"He was also asked to coordinate any public statement with his lawyer, Gerd Niebaum, 'because it directly affects my contractual situation." This was also done, Rieckhoff replied: "Mr. Niebaum has been involved on Tuesday that we will aggressively deal with the issue. In this respect, I must assume that Mr.
Sammer was informed. "Niebaum lawyer, the Sammer from his time as president of Borussia Dortmund knows, declined to comment yesterday, referring not to its secrecy. Regardless of the exact arrangements have underestimated both sides, especially the dynamic that was created by Zwanziger claim.
If Matthias Sammer on Friday does not need to determine its exchange to the Elbe would at least not at this point probably burst.
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