To clear up the 2006 World Cup affair, the DFB hired a law firm for a lot of money. But in addition to the published report, she also delivered a second, secret report. Why this? And why does nobody at the DFB want to remember that?
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Johannes Aumüller and Thomas Kistner
In August 2016, a discreet handover took place at the Frankfurt headquarters of the German Football Association. The then DFB President Reinhard Grindel receives a visit from a lawyer from the law firm Freshfields. This had been commissioned months earlier to investigate mysterious million-dollar payments relating to the 2006 World Cup – now law firm representative Daniel Schnabl rushes in to hand over classified information. Allegedly in five copies, Grindel learned, so that he could pass on the remaining copies to other responsible DFB people.