Renew the myth in Germany

The current sports director of the senior men’s team of German Football Federation (DFB), Rudi Völlerwill continue to serve in this position until the end of the next World Cup. Soccer in the United States, Canada and Mexico in 2026.

It was decided by the majority this Monday of the supervisory board and the shareholders’ meeting of DFB, the federation reported in a statement.

“In the last fourteen months of work, I realized that every day I prefer my role to the responsibility in the company. DFB. “What maybe started as a sense of obligation to Germany, the federation and the national team, has long since become a personal thing,” he said. Völler.

He added that as director of the senior national team, he wants to contribute with his experience to “create the most important soccer team Germany be successful again, but more European Cup this summer at home.

For his part, the president of DFB, Bernd Neuendorf, He said that in all his experience, Völler He was an important interlocutor and mentor for him, as well as for coaches and players, in addition to providing a “positive influence” on the national team.

“I am very happy that we have kept Rudi at the DFB after 2024. After the difficult past years, there is great enthusiasm again for the national team”, which in addition to the “great work” of the national coach , Julian Nagelsmannand his team, “is also due to Rudi Völler“, he claimed.

Völler63, returned to the DFB in February 2023 on the recommendation of the working group created by Neuendorf, and his first vice president, Hans-Joachim Watzke, and after the approval of the federation committees.

As a player, he played a total of ninety international matches Germany between 1982 and 1994 and became world champion in Italy in 1990, runner-up to Mexico in 1986 and European runner-up in Sweden in 1992.

He was national coach from 2000 to 2004 and reached the World Cup final with his team in 2002.