At the weekend, the long-designated Carinthian Klaus Mitterdorfer, who is also the regional medical association vice president, was unanimously elected the new Austrian football president. After all, unlike in the medical association, where he represents the legal and bureaucratic and non-medical side, he comes from the field, albeit at the local level, which is called FC Treibach, the local twin of the spa town of Althofen, where he is also the chairman of the junior staff has trained. It’s anyone’s guess whether Mitterdorfer will be able to cure domestic football of all its ailments, but he nonetheless promised to swear that he would pull together with his fellow students to make the most of the potential. Something like that always sounds good, even if it’s naughty.
As I said, the new ÖFB boss (acted as a friend of the country’s emperor) has always been associated with football, although not at the highest level, but at a rather low level, i.e. not in the sporting bel étage at home, not from Austria’s football wrong dreams. I don’t know to what extent Freund Mitterdorfer is internationally networked and respected, but I dare to fear that the Fifa and Uefa grandees are less familiar with him than the (soccer) kings in the country.
In this respect, the swimming president, his name is smoke and mirrors, is a good bit ahead of him, because as the son of a coach, lawyer and late appointed senior swimmer (over 50), he managed to be made the seventh European vice president by his lawyer-president friend . He, in turn, has active swimmers: not only made indoor fathers in the domestic association his closely connected, trusted deputies, but also, to be on the safe side, with the paid sports director and a financially quite dependent ex-swimmer, ex-US students and ex-Czechs Sports commission set.
And what do you think she kindly decides? Who, when, where and for what vague reason can, may or will swim in order to meet virtual, nebulous limits! And you can guess three times who is (almost) always there, even if you have to inflate the team with a hopeless relay in whatever form? The vice president kids, that’s the way it has to be! On the other hand, new construction of indoor pools with 50m lanes, which would be so important for progress on a broader scale? None! There are fewer and fewer training water areas instead of more. No wonder with such great pike in the pond of so many lazy carp…
Another revolutionary president, who was also rejected in the ÖOC election, discovered basketball as a sponsor of a Slovenian club (Domzale) as a sailing freak, before he decided with friends to take over the local basketball, to reform it and, if so would have gone to rebel in the ÖOC. The gymnastics president, who played along with a really well-informed colleague (Gabriele Jahn, retired ORF commentator) with a great deal of knowledge as a mouthpiece and fig leaf, also stands on a second official leg, with which he did a somersault from the school – and fundamental to fun sports. The good man is also Vice President of the Lower Austria Volleyball Association, which suggests that he obviously has a lot of free time.
The situation around the ÖLV President (athletics) Sonja Spendelhofer, who once won a few championship titles for the Lower Austrian club Schwechat (SVS), is similar, albeit a little more upscale than with the Carinthian football friend, but is now in Wr. City school board has been promoted to director of education (also for sport/exercise). But how much she wants or can move with a party friend like the multiple and also sports city councilor Hacker is an open question. In this role, there are still no big throws/pushes like in her active LA time, when the unforgotten ex-world record holder, Deputy Governor and Minister of the Interior Liese Prokop 50 years ago pushed the ball about 80 cm further than Sonja.
In this context, I would like to note, despite one or the other reference to black or at least blackened sheep (Platini, Beckenbauer…), that at international association level the realization is slowly gaining ground that instead of bureaucrats and apparatchiks, more and more former sporting greats in high and to promote to the highest offices. That was already the case with the IOC Vice Pal Schmitt (U), before one of his opponents when he was active, the German gold fencer Thomas Bach, an Olympian and world champion, followed as chief Olympian. And in the La world association, after the victorious duel for the executive chair with the sky striker Sergej Bubka, the Olympic champion, world champion and former Tory MP Sebastian Coe reigns. That says more than enough. Incidentally, Hungary’s most successful swimming association is led by former world record holder and Olympic silver medalist (1980), Sandor Wladar.
As a reminder, I would like to mention that the current Vorarlberg industrial boss and new tennis president Martin Ohneberg (successor to the ex-state league player and current Finance Minister Magnus Brunner) at the Wiener Park-Klub in the list of players over 45 as number 5 of the 7 can be found, which is a bit similar to the albeit far less well-connected swim president. I think that small employees, despite some merits at the lowest (lowest) level of a company, are normally never brought into a management position. Unless you call a revolution like 100 years ago. That is also written in the register of local (but not) sports greats. Would like to exchange 10 Procks or Leitners for every career changer. because they know exactly what is wrong and what you have to do to close the gaps…
2023-07-09 18:47:50
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