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DFB Vice President Rainer Koch wants to talk to the head of the association after a verbal derailment by Fritz Keller and has not yet accepted an apology.

Koch did not comment on the entire process, he could only confirm that Keller had asked him to apologize in writing, it said on Tuesday at a dpa request from the Bavarian Football Association (BFV).

"So far, Rainer Koch has not accepted the apology because he would like to deal with the entire process in a personal conversation with Fritz Keller."

Keller, however, had stated that he apologized in writing to Koch (62) and that Koch (62) had “the size” to “accept the apology”.

Keller had compared his vice-president to Nazi judge Roland Freisler, but immediately apologized for it.

The German Football Association did not comment on details, but confirmed an apology from Keller.

"He's the size to accept the apology"

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“Sometimes words fall in controversy that shouldn't and shouldn't fall.

I apologized to Rainer Koch personally and in writing for this, ”Keller was quoted as saying.

“He's the size to accept the apology, for which I am grateful.

Especially with regard to the victims of National Socialism, the comparison was completely inappropriate.

I very much regret this and will choose my words wisely in the future. "

Freisler, who died in 1945, was a participant in the Wannsee Conference and was one of those responsible for organizing the Holocaust and later president of the notorious People's Court, where he sentenced around 2,600 people to death.

Including against the resistance group "White Rose".

Roland Freisler had the reputation of the "blood judge"

Source: pa / keystone

Keller initially ruled out a resignation.

"I made a mistake, but I will finish the clean-up work for which I was brought to the DFB and elected with 100 percent of the votes in the Bundestag," he said to "Bild".

"Horror and complete incomprehension"

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Is that really the case?

At least the first regional association is moving away from Keller.

The Presidium of the South German Football Association (SFV) reacted to Keller's derailment with “horror and complete incomprehension”.

His statement was "completely unacceptable," said the SFV in a statement.

It was not signed by Koch.

"Our President Dr. Rainer Koch deserves respect, and we know that he puts himself in the service of the cause in order to secure amateur football ”, it said in the announcement of the SFV. "Especially as a long-time presiding judge, it is completely absurd to move him even remotely into the vicinity of the highest representative of the unspeakable and inhuman arbitrary justice of the Third Reich."