Good connection with the minister, bad connection with the investor: Claus Vogt with Federal Agriculture Minister Özdemir at the Christopher Street Day. Image: dpa
VfB Stuttgart cannot calm down: After the quarrels over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the professional department, the fans are now calling for the entire club executive committee to resign.
In the dispute over the influence of investors in the Bundesliga soccer club VfB Stuttgart, the sports car manufacturer Porsche has now made it clear that it is in no way interested in managing the professional department of the Bundesliga soccer club. “Porsche is of course committed to the 50+1 rule. We see ourselves as a long-term partner of VfB Stuttgart – from the region for the region,” said a spokesman for the FAZ. “With our youth support ‘Turbo for Talents’, we are primarily concerned with the next generation.” Porsche only acquired shares in the company in January taken over into a professional department spun off from an AG.
The disputes at the traditional Baden-Württemberg club had previously come to a head. In a statement published on Friday, the club’s fan scene, organized in the “Commando Cannstatt” club, demanded a “credible commitment from the AG’s supervisory board” to take the interests of the members of the parent club “seriously, respect them and in the spirit of the 50+1 “To act according to the rules and mission statement of VfB”. According to this regulation of the German Football League, it is not possible for investors to take over the majority of votes in corporations into which football clubs have spun off their professional teams.
