Bernd Johannes Neuendorf was born on 6 July 1961 and is a German politician, journalist and football administrator who is currently serving as the president of the German Football Association.
13 Facts About Bernd Neuendorf
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Bernd Neuendorf had previously served as the president of the Middle Rhine Football Association from 2019 until his election as DFB president in 2022.
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Bernd Neuendorf studied modern history, political science and sociology in Bonn and Oxford after receiving his Abitur from the Gymnasium am Wirteltor Duren.
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Bernd Neuendorf played youth football for FC Grenzwacht Hurtgen, where he is still a club member, as a left winger until suffering a serious knee injury.
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Between 1992 and 1999, Bernd Neuendorf was a parliamentary correspondent for various daily newspapers in Bonn.
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Bernd Neuendorf then moved to the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle.
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In 2003, Bernd Neuendorf became a spokesperson for the SPD party executive in Berlin.
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Since 1 October 2019, Bernd Neuendorf has served as a board member of the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg.
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On 29 June 2019, Bernd Neuendorf was unanimously elected president of the Middle Rhine Football Association at the association congress, succeeding Alfred Vianden in a term lasting until 2022.
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Bernd Neuendorf served a member of the DFB Executive Committee and vice-president of the Western German Football Association.
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On 11 March 2022, Bernd Neuendorf ran for the presidency of the German Football Association at the DFB-Bundestag in Bonn.
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Bernd Neuendorf won the election with 193 of the 250 votes cast, becoming the 14th president of the DFB.
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Bernd Neuendorf defeated Peter Peters, who had formed an interim dual leadership with Rainer Koch following the resignation of Fritz Keller in May 2021.