An the highest of the German Football Affiliation (DFB) there isn’t a place for a girl within the coming years, as has all the time been the case for 122 years. The “Football can do extra” initiative based by Katja Kraus and eight different ladies from the football enterprise couldn’t change that. Up to now month, the DFB Bundestag has settled with the tormenting and paralyzing energy struggles of the current previous and changed virtually all the male management workforce of the previous few years. However regardless of the completely different pursuits, the footballers collectively fought again the demand for a gender-equitable twin management, even within the largest disaster of the affiliation. A girl alone on the head of the affiliation, which represents round seven million members, together with round a million ladies and women, was unimaginable there anyway. In the long run, two males determined to battle for the presidential submit. “The undeniable fact that males want to distribute energy amongst themselves just isn’t solely present in football,” says Katja Kraus. “However there it’s removed from being sufficiently questioned.”
For connoisseurs of the German soccer scene it’s however clear: With Katja Kraus there was undoubtedly a lady who may have turned the male soccer hierarchy the wrong way up and put the DFB on female legs for the primary time with a candidacy. The 51-year-old Hessin has been the strongest female voice in German football for round twenty years. She has lengthy since confirmed her management abilities in numerous positions within the football and sports activities enterprise. As managing companion of the sports activities advertising and marketing company Jung von Matt/sports activities, as a long-standing member of the supervisory board at Adidas, as a board member for greater than eight years at Hamburger SV. It’s intently networked with the political and media operations. There’s additionally no lack of requests to tackle accountability in a Bundesliga membership. And the previous goalkeeper of FSV Frankfurt was additionally profitable on the pitch: Vice world champion, European champion, a number of German champion.
