The Carinthian’s suggestion to install Silvia Kaupa-Götzl as CEO was not approved.
The ÖFB executive board was scheduled to meet in an extraordinary meeting on Friday. The reason: President Klaus Mitterdorfer wanted to talk to the former ÖBB manager Silvia Kaupa-Götzl install a new managing director. To do this, the ÖFB boss would simply need a majority among the 13 voting members.
However: the necessary ones seven votes The Carinthian didn’t scrape together for that. He therefore resigned on Thursday.
The tip of the scales in the mostly divided presidium is likely to be that Bundesliga who is represented in the committee with three votes. The Representative of professional football However, according to KURIER information, they were united against ordering Kaupa-Götzl. And not because they question the 50-year-old’s skills, but because they take the position that the position must be advertised.
The majority was against Mitterdorfer’s proposal. According to reports, the regional association presidents from Burgenland, Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol were also against the president’s idea.
Neuhold and Hollerer terminated
In any case, a few hours before Mitterdorfer announced his resignation on Thursday, the Carinthian took up his scythe and fired the two top employees. After both Bernhard Neuhold as well as Thomas Hollerer If they did not agree to a mutual termination of the contract, the managing director of ÖFB Wirtschaftsbetriebe and the general secretary were terminated.
In any case, both of them have a six-month notice period in their contract, have not been released from duty and are therefore continuing to work for the ÖFB for the time being. However, it is questionable whether the two dismissals will ultimately remain the case.
What’s next?
After the Mitterdorfer era after just a year and a half has come to an end, an interim solution must be determined. The four vice-presidents come into question, one of whom is Lower Austria’s regional association president Johann Gartner would like to repeat his former interim role.
However: The oldest (74) and longest-serving member of the committee probably took himself out of the game by recently spreading the news via NÖN that the team players had threatened a strike. A claim that team captain David Alaba immediately credibly denied it via KURIER. Tyrol’s long-term president would be much more likely to be the interim president Josef Geisler or Philip Thonhauserthe chairman of the supervisory board of the Bundesliga.
However, because the chaos at the ÖFB seems to be limitless, there was also a second resignation on Thursday. And that concerns Georg Pangl. The Burgenlander has resigned as president of his regional association. Officially for private reasons. However, the former league boss is likely to have one Compliance-Thematik to have stumbled. The 59-year-old recently had ambitions of becoming ÖFB boss himself.