The calls for a new vote on the entry of an investor into the German Football League are becoming louder and louder. According to a DFL executive committee member, this is not an option.
DFL executive committee member Axel Hellmann has clearly rejected the fan scene’s demand for a new vote by the 36 first and second division clubs on the entry of an investor.
“We had a valid proxy vote from Martin Kind. We cannot simply say, because the decision has become legally valid, that we will vote again. That would give all other clubs that were involved a legal opportunity to vote against one a possible new vote,” said Hellmann on the “Bild Sport” program on Welt TV.
In December of the previous year, 24 of the 36 professional clubs voted yes in the vote on an investor’s billion-dollar entry into the German Football League. This meant that the necessary two-thirds majority was very close to being achieved. Particular attention was paid to Hanover’s majority shareholder Martin Kind, who had been instructed by the parent club to vote against it. It is unclear whether he did this. According to Hellmann, Kind’s vote was “the 24th vote.”
Hellmann: Protests denounce fundamental things
Regardless of this, Hellmann expressed his incomprehension that there had recently been calls for a new vote from the Bundesliga. “None of the 36 clubs submitted a document during the challenge period stating that the vote was not legally valid. None of the 36 clubs objected when it came to the secret vote. We have to take the clubs’ vote seriously,” demanded Board spokesman for Eintracht Frankfurt.
In his opinion, the fans’ protests that have been going on for weeks go beyond the rejection of an investor. “It’s a fight that gets to the heart of a few fundamental questions in football. The pressure that has built up in commercialized football over the past few years or even decades from the perspective of the active fan scene is now breaking out,” said Hellmann.
However, the DFL will not allow itself to be put under pressure by this. “If that means that we are heading towards a game being abandoned, then it will happen and then it will also have to be sanctioned. Because we cannot allow games to be abandoned in the interests of the uniformity, competitiveness and integrity of football,” emphasized the 50th year olds.
Source: Stern
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