Rüdi Völler is apparently ready to help the DFB with a view to the 2024 home European Championship
Source: dpa/Arne Dedert
The DFB task force recommends Rudi Völler as the successor to Oliver Bierhoff, who has resigned. The 62-year-old himself is said to have agreed to take on the task at a meeting on Thursday.
Dhe former team boss Rudi Völler is to succeed Oliver Bierhoff as team manager of the German national soccer team. According to information from “Bild” on Thursday evening, this is the result of a meeting of the DFB task force with Hans-Joachim Watzke, Bernd Neuendorf, Oliver Kahn, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Oliver Mintzlaff, Matthias Sammer and Völler himself.
Should this step be officially announced, the responsible bodies of the German Football Association would still have to approve the recommendation for the 62-year-old. The DFB Presidium will meet next week. The DFB task force has not yet made an official statement.
The former world champion Völler, who actually retired from football in the summer of 2022, is to take over some of the tasks of the former DFB director Bierhoff. This had left the association after the World Cup preliminary round from the DFB selection at the end of last year in Qatar. According to reports, the DFB will spread the other Bierhoff areas over several shoulders. For Völler, the focus is on the selection of national coach Hansi Flick.
Völler left Bayer Leverkusen as managing director last summer. In 2000 he had already stepped in when the DFB was in dire need, even as team boss at the time. He led the DFB selection to the 2002 World Cup final, after the preliminary round at the 2004 European Championship it was over. For many German fans, the 1990 world champion, who can look back on an enormously successful playing career, is an idol.
