https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

The President of Germany’s FA has apologised publicly for making a Nazi reference when speaking to his vice-president in a gathering final week, saying it had been a “grave mistake”. Gulp.

DFB chief Fritz Keller referred to Rainer Koch, a civil choose, as “Freisler”, a reference to the distinguished Nazi choose Roland Freisler, a participant on the 1942 Wannsee Convention the place the Nazis set out their notorious “last answer”.

Keller (pictured above – he appears to be like precisely such as you imagined, oder?) has had tense relations with a number of different senior DFB members, together with Koch. He’s the Prince Phillip (RIP Phil) of German soccer, primarily.

“With my comment throughout the board assembly final Friday in the direction of my first vice-president Rainer Koch I dedicated a grave mistake,” Keller stated in a press release. “I assumed that he would settle for my apology, which I supplied each in writing and by telephone. This estimation was improper.”

“At instances of social rifts we must always as footballers, after my foul, provide to shake arms and collectively present an indication of reconciliation,” Keller stated. “I’m pleased that Rainer Koch is prepared for joint discussions.”

The Koch & Keller Present. Seems like Germany’s model of The Two Ronnies.