The Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) is undergoing structural reform. On Friday in Vienna, the Presidium voted with the necessary two-thirds majority for the change initiated by President Klaus Mitterdorfer, which, among other things, provides for a three-person management board with a CEO and a managing director each for the areas of business and sport. Bernhard Neuhold, managing director of ÖFB Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH, and ÖFB general secretary Thomas Hollerer have to go.
Rumors about a possible withdrawal of Mitterdorfer as president did not come true. The position of sports director will probably be taken over by the current sports director Peter Schöttel, while the positions of the CEO are still open – the Bundesliga board chairman Christian Ebenbauer is the favorite here – and the managing director of economics.
Hollerer and Neuhold leave
According to reports, ten presidium members voted for the reform, one vote against came from the Tyrolean Association, and there were abstentions from Upper Austria and Salzburg. Since this is a change to the statutes, a resolution is still required at an ÖFB general meeting, which is planned for May 18th in Bregenz.
It was also decided at the executive board meeting that Hollerer and Neuhold would have to leave the association. The two operational heads of the ÖFB have been at odds for a long time, which has made daily work within the national association massively difficult. You have now been released and the notice period is six months.
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