Different theories
Instead, a wide variety of theories are making the rounds, which could have prompted Hitzlsperger, who is otherwise so smart and rhetorically skilled in his public appearance, to his sharp criticism. His role as a TV expert had earned the former national player a lot of sympathy in recent years, his courage to come out was admired and his passionate commitment to homophobia and sexism even won the Federal Cross of Merit in the fall. It felt like “Hitz”, as they call them in Stuttgart, was a welcome guest and conversation partner.
But suddenly the 38-year-old has the reputation of the power-hungry splitter. Even his candidacy for the office of president, the legal situation of which the VfB is now having a law firm examine, was explosive. Even more explosive was the sharpness with which Hitzlsperger formulated his allegations against Vogt.
The 51-year-old’s desire to profile threatens “the existence of the whole association”, wrote Hitzlsperger in his four-page indictment, referring among other things to “escalating costs” for processing the data affair that Vogt has placed in the hands of an external law firm. The next day, the president replied that these costs were largely covered by insurance. In addition, one could “get the impression that there are people in and around VfB who do not want this information,” wrote Vogt. Because it may not just be about the alleged disclosure of member data itself, but there is even more behind it?
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