At the German Football Association, keys for two safes that the association found during the move were misplaced. Now both are opened in the presence of the tax authorities and the public prosecutor’s office. But there is no big secret or even problematic material.
The German Football Association has revealed the secret of two locked safes in its former office in Frankfurt/Main. In a video, the association demonstrated the opening of the metal cabinets by specialists after the keys and access data were no longer available. According to the DFB recordings, it contained only commemorative coins and stamps.
In the past week there had been repeated speculation as to whether the safes might contain documents relating to the still unresolved summer fairy tale scandal surrounding the 2006 World Cup in Germany. “For reasons of transparency,” the DFB called in five officials from the tax authorities and a public prosecutor when it was opened.
The safes were located in the former office in the Otto-Fleck-Schneise, but because of the move to the new DFB campus in Kennedyallee they were opened there by a company from Mainz. “Both were filled with a few stamps and around 400 commemorative coins, mostly from the 2006 World Cup. These coins are currently being traded between 10 and 15 euros among collectors,” the DFB said. According to experts, one safe dates from the 1980s, the second according to the certificate from 2007.
According to the “Bild” newspaper, two rooms and four safes were found during the move. Not even the four former DFB presidents Zwanziger, Niersbach, Grindel and Keller are said to have known of their existence. In one of the two safes that were opened, parts from the estate of Sepp Herberger, the legendary national coach from the 1954 World Cup title who died in 1977, were found. According to the tabloid, blank tickets for DFB international matches were in the other.
