Former world champion Künzer becomes DFB director
Nia Künzer secured the World Cup title for Germany in 2003. Now she is to become Director of Women's Football at the German Football Association. The 43-year-old 2003 world champion will take up the newly created post on January 1. After the debacle in Australia, she is to take the team forward.
Former world champion Nia Künzer has been appointed to the new post of sports director for the German women's soccer team at the DFB. The 43-year-old from Wetzlar will take up her post on January 1. This was announced by the German Football Association following a unanimous decision by the supervisory board and the shareholders' meeting. This means that the women's national team will have its own manager, as Rudi Völler did for the German men's national team. "Her critical eye, her ability to bring in other perspectives, her high level of social competence and her profound soccer knowledge will help us move forward in this high-priority area for the DFB," said association president Bernd Neuendorf in the press release.
"We have major challenges ahead of us. It is essential for development in all areas that we get back on the road to success and win titles again," said Künzer in the statement. Her responsibilities include the women's national team, which suffered a debacle in the preliminary round of the World Cup in Australia this summer, and the U20 team.
In addition, the 34-time international of 1. FFC Frankfurt will probably be one of the successors to interim national coach Horst Hrubesch, who will be in charge of the national team until next summer at the latest - if the DFB women manage to qualify for the Olympics in Paris 2024. The 72-year-old stepped in after the long illness of Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, whose contract has since been terminated by the association. Künzer celebrated her greatest success as a player in 2003. In the World Cup final in Carson (USA), she scored the golden goal against Sweden with her head to make it 2:1. She most recently worked as an ARD expert and as head of the department for integration, social support and voluntary work at the Giessen regional council.
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Nia Künzer, having excelled in women's soccer as a player, will now leverage her expertise in management positions at the DFB. As the new Director of Women's Football, she aims to guide the women's national team and the U20 team towards regaining their past glory.
Despite the decline in performance, as seen in the preliminary round of the World Cup in Australia, the DFB is confident that women in management positions like Künzer can steer the women's soccer back to its winning ways.
Source: www.ntv.de
