Der Spiegel: “Buy yourself the 2006 World Cup,” blacks funds for the championships in Germany. – The messanger

The German Football Federation decided to open an investigation following allegations of ‘Der Spiegel’ on the allocation to Germany of the 2006 World Cup, which according to the online version of the magazine would be bought.

The organizing committee would have in fact created a black which would have flowed 6.7 million euro paid by the former CEO of Adidas, Robert Louis Dreyfus.

The huge sum would been paid before the decision of 6 July 2000 the FIFA to award the World Cup to Germany. Part of this money would be used to buy four votes of the representatives of Asian FIFA’s executive committee that decides on the allocation of the World Championships. Through the use of funds blacks, in fact the organizing committee of the German world, then chaired by ‘national football icon Franz Beckenbauer, would buy the 4 decisive votes in the Executive Committee of FIFA, with which Germany exceeded 12 to 11 in South Africa and won the realization of the 2006

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But there is on record a statement from the president of the German Football Federation (DFB), Wolfgang Niersbach, vice Beckenbauer in 2006 in the organizing committee who admits irregularities in payment to FIFA of 6.7 million Euros. The figure is important because, according to Spiegel, the funds blacks were created through a private donation, which took place before the decisive vote on 6 July 2000 of 10.3 million Swiss brands (then 13 million German marks) by the head Adidas to Robert Louis-Dreyfus. When in 2005 Louis-Dreyfus said the money back, the organizing committee found a way to return the money secretly. The weekly cited confidential documents, which certificherebbero the passage of 6.7 million Euros from the German organizing committee in a Geneva account of FIFA and, hence, that of Zurich Louis-Dreyfus. As causal, an invention: the payment of a fee for the opening ceremony at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.

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“Allegations serious’, those of ‘Der Spiegel’, to which FIFA will counter an internal investigation to assess the veracity of the accusations. So FIFA replica, informally, to the advances of the German weekly. For its part, also the German Football Association (DFB) reacts to the accusations, calling them a note “inconsistent.” These conclusions are not documented by any facts, continues the DFB. The federation confirms “expressly and emphatically that neither the president of the DBF, nor other members of the organizing committee were in any way involved in the matter or have never heard about” and reserves the right to take legal action against Spiegel.