New football boss in Germany: This man is soon to DFB President

The new DFB-President is elected at the end of September 2019. Fritz Keller is the chief of the SC Freiburg and apparently has the best cards. We introduce you

New football boss in Germany: This man is soon to DFB President

The new DFB-President is elected at the end of September 2019. Fritz Keller is the chief of the SC Freiburg and apparently has the best cards. We introduce you to him.

Frankfurt - the Chairman of The Bundesliga side SC Freiburg, Fritz Keller, is to become the new President of the German football Association. This proposal of its selection Committee, the DFB announced on Thursday. Fritz Keller was an "extraordinary personality with all the qualities for the office," says the current Vice-President of the DFB, Dr Rainer Koch said in a statement.

Fritz Keller: New DFB President with "entrepreneurial life-line"

in addition, chef highlights the versatility of the 62-Year-old: "for decades, drawing from long experience with a close connection to the professional and Amateur football, also for women's football and youth work, as well as a large entrepreneurial life performance of him. We are convinced that Fritz Keller is the right man for the future of the German football Association: He can bring people together, the entire spectrum of German football represent and, in particular, equally for the interests of professional and Amateur football to occur."

Who is the, to date, the relatively unknown Keller is? In the case of the former "Breisgau-Brazilians" item be forwarded to the official for some years the fortunes:

Who is Fritz Keller? History of a potential DFB-President

born on the 2. April 1957 in Freiburg, Married with Bettina, three children. Career as a football official, in 1994, in the Board of Directors of the SC Freiburg elected as of 2010, the first Chairman Since 2014 President of the Association In October 2018 and confirmed in office. Career: Winemaker, Wine Merchant, Restaurateur, Hotelier. + Fritz Keller (l.) at a birthday celebration in January 2019.©Marcus sleep

Fritz Keller also runs the for 50 years, with a Michelin-star Restaurant Schwarzer Adler in Oberbergen in the Kaiserstuhl and in the third Generation, the winery Franz Keller, which he took over from his father. Hotel Schwarzer Adler, Cellar, Economy, Winzerhaus Rebstock, Wine Trade. Together with his son, Fritz Keller Senior was "winemaker of the year 2019".

Fritz Keller is to become the new DFB President, and is a passionate winemaker

On 21. August cellars will be officially unveiled, in addition had been conducted with the native of Freiburg talks on the Post of key football officials in Germany, as the Commission points out more. "With a view to the major challenges faced by the DFB currently, Fritz is the basement of the suitable candidate to lead the largest sports Association in the world in the future", the DFB further.

The passionate winemakers would compete with the German football Association is the successor of Grindel, and was given in April 2019 office. Since that time, the Vice-President, Reinhard Rauball, and Rainer Koch, jointly conduct an interim basis the transactions.

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PF with dpa

Date Of Update: 17 August 2019, 12:00
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