Wolfgang Niersbach
| Wolfgang Niersbach | |
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Wolfgang Niersbach in 2015
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| Born |
30 November 1950 Rommerskirchen |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Title | President of the German Football Association |
| Term | 2012–15 |
| Predecessor | Theo Zwanziger |
| Successor | Rainer Koch and Reinhard Rauball (acting) |
| Children | 2 |
Wolfgang Niersbach (born 30 November 1950 in Rommerskirchen) is a German sports journalists and sports official. From 2 March 2012 until 9 November 2015 he was President of the German Football Association (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB).
Niersbach played football in youth team of Düsseldorfer SC 99 and went to high school at the Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. After high school, he studied German studies and started volunteering in 1973 for the news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst. Until 1988, he wrote reports for this news agency and acted as an editor for association football and ice hockey, covering numerous World and European Championships and Olympic Games. At the same time, he was responsible editor for the stadium newspaper for Fortuna Düsseldorf for eleven years, where he designed the Fortuna aktuell, as well as working four years with the stadium newspaper for the Düsseldorfer EG ice hockey club.
As press officer of the 1988 European Football Championship in West Germany, Niersbach gained experience in organizing press activities during major sporting events. Eventually leading to him becoming press secretary and media director at the DFB. In March 1997, he became a member of the bid committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. After the successful completion of his application, on 1 January 2001 he was made Executive Vice President and Press Officer of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee. His successor as director of communications at the DFB Harald Stenger. On 15 September 2006, he was appointed as successor to Bernd Pfaff as the director at the DFB responsible for the areas of team management, youth, talent and coaching. He worked closely in this position with Germany national football team manager Oliver Bierhoff and DFB sporting director Matthias Sammer. At the DFB Bundestag in Mainz on 26 October 2007, Niersbach was appointed as successor to Horst R. Schmidt as new Secretary General. Making him the highest paid staff of the DFB.
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