Sports Managing Director Rudi Völler of Bayer Leverkusen rejected any ambitions on the Presidential Office at the DFB. "For this office other personalities are better suited," said the 61-year-old of Sport picture. Already immediately after the withdrawal of Fritz Keller, Völler had emphasized that the president office "definitely nothing" was for him.

The power vacuum at the top of the DFB makes the former team manager of the national team as a reason that Germany was represented only with a hull force at Olympia. "With a strong president who is looking for solutions with the clubs at a high level, they would probably have looked better in this situation. Trainer Stefan Kuntz was quite alone," said Völler.

Numerous associations had refused their professionals for Olympia, Kuntz had only 18 instead of 22 allowed players.

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"My greatest concern for the German football was not that we leave at Olympia prematurely, but that the third goalkeeper is used as a field player. It would not have survived for embarrassment when Stefan Kuntz had to do that," said Völler.