World Cup 2006 trial: The old football buddies’ alliance of silence holds
Commentary by Johannes Aumüller
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Günter Netzer can't help either: Many football celebrities testified as witnesses in the 2006 World Cup trial about unsolved million-dollar swindles. But the dominant narrative was the triad: knowing nothing, not asking questions, and not remembering anything.
The Frankfurt Regional Court and the other participants in the Frankfurt World Cup trial stare into the void. Günter Netzer was supposed to be on the video screen, connected from a conference room at the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Bern. But no one was there at the agreed time, and somehow that would have been a fitting culmination after all this history.
An email, a photo and a tremendous suspicion: The DFB is investigating whether its former vice president Rainer Koch played a dirty game for years in connection with the “Summer Fairytale” affair.
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