In many well-worn novels and film and television works, there are often similar plots in which a treasure hunting team accidentally opens a mysterious treasure chest in an abandoned building to discover a terrifying secret.
Art comes from life, and these seemingly bloody fictional stories are sometimes less magical than the real people and real events that happen in the real world. Recently, the German Football Association has found such treasure chests.
The DFB recently moved into a new headquarters building at 274 Kennedy Avenue in Frankfurt at a cost of 150 million euros (above).
Moving into a new home, it is natural to vacate the old home. According to Bild, the German Football Association was cleaning up the old headquarters building at 6 Otto-Fleckstraße in Frankfurt (pictured below) when it accidentally found 4 unknown safes. Of these, 3 boxes were found in an unused room located on the ground floor next to the beverage warehouse; The location of the last 1 box is unknown, it is in a room in the basement, the door of this room has a total of eight passwords, the first four passwords are only known to a person in the legal department, and the last four are only known to a person in the financial department.
How mysterious are these 4 chests? According to reports, the German Football Association has asked about the last four former presidents who have left office, but the elders of German football are ignorant of it.
The German Football Federation has now found a way to open 2 of these safes and opened them in the presence of its Secretary-General Ulrich.
It was reported that the no. 1 safe contained the ticket version and tax payment seal of the Early Years of the German National Team; Some belongings were found in safe No. 2, including eight women's necklaces, which the DFF said were the personal belongings of former German coach Sepp Herberger (pictured below), who had coached the national team for a long time during the Nazi era (1936-1942) and West Germany (1949-1964).
Heberger was the head coach of the West German team that staged the Bernese miracle, but because he was officially recognized as a Nazi follower in the post-war "de-Nazification" campaign, he became a figure that German football is reluctant to mention today. It is not known why Herberger's personal belongings are still locked in the safe of the German Football Association.
More interesting than Herberger's relics are the other 2 safes that cannot be opened. Officially, they do not rule out that the safe will contain explosive evidence about the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and it is likely to reveal why 6.7 million euros from the German Football Association ended up in the account of former FIFA vice-president Haman (pictured below).
In recent years, FIFA has been repeatedly exposed to taking bribes in the process of Russia and Qatar bidding for the World Cup, and if the World Cup in Germany also has problems, or even is dug up ironclad evidence, FIFA's credibility may be further hit. In Bild's words, there are many former FA officials who perhaps most want the safe to be empty.
In any case, in terms of the classification level of that safe in the basement, it must contain the biggest secret of German football.
The current president of the German Football Federation, Neuendorf, who just took office in March this year, belongs to Germany's current ruling Social Democratic Party and worked as a youth player in his youth, but retired early to become a journalist due to a knee injury. Neuendorf doesn't have much to do with the FA, which is probably why he is willing to make a fuss about these 4 safes, as for his first time to consult his four predecessors, this motivation is intriguing (counting the agents, the first four: two agents, one non-partisan, one alliance party; Not counting the agents, the first four terms: two non-partisan, two coalition parties).
Since it is impossible to open the last 2 safes, the German Football Association has now launched a formal tender on this, and people with related technologies may wish to bid to help everyone uncover this secret, and by the way, earn him a sum of money from the German Football Association. However, according to the plot of literary works, the person who opens the treasure chest is generally likely to be hunted down by the villain character.