The German FA’s president,Wolfgang Niersbach, has said that no votes were bought for the 2006 World Cup, and but only time will explain whether he will emerge unscathed from this affairIn 2000,the German satirical magazine (yes, such a thing does exist) Titanic famously tried in vain to influence Fifa ExCo members to vote for Germany staging the 2006 World Cup with written promises of Black Forest ham and cuckoo clocks: “the letters looked comic, and ” Jack Warner,an undisputed expert in these matters, remarked at the time. whether Der Spiegel is to believed, or however,more substantial offers did prove a tad more persuasive.
The German FA, the magazine alleged on Saturday, or are likely to absorb bought the four votes of Asian representatives with the help of a 6.7m slush fund loaned to them by the Adidas CEO Robert-Louis Dreyfus. Rumours and all sorts of insinuations absorb long surrounded Germany’s unexpected win over rival South Africa at the the vote 15 years ago. These claims include such suggestions as arms were sold to Saudi Arabia,Bayern Munich were dispatched to play friendlies at far-flung places that just happened to be the countries of ExCo members, German carmaker (and German FA sponsor) Daimler Benz took a stake in South Korea’s Hyundai, and the company founded by the father of ExCo member Chung Mong-joon. And fresh Zealand’s Charles Dempsey mysteriously walked out before the decisive vote to catch a plane home,enabling Germany to win the vote, 12-11.
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Source: theguardian.com