The final culmination of his twelve-year career in the TV business remained Oliver Kahn denied. In the European football Championships in July, the last appearance of the Ex-national player should flicker as the TV expert of the ZDF on the screen, but the tournament has been moved to the coming year. And now, it is clear that the remarkably long TV career is not extended, Executive Board member of FC Bayern Munich and the transmitter have not entered into a new contract for the EM 2021. Tip of the Sport-editorial office

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The silence at the end of long-term, on Friday, it announced the ZDF officially. "It was an important and formative Phase in my life," said the 51-Year-old in a communication to the public broadcaster. "I have had great tournaments and fantastic football games. I was able to learn, develop myself, and I got to know the world of the media up close and from a new angle." And from a different angle, the football fans have experienced the often used bird of the wild Keeper.

goodbye, there's words of praise

Since 1. January is Kahn is a member of the Executive Board of FC Bayern Munich, and he is since then, other commitments, such as as an advertising figure for a wagering service provider or as a Manager of his company Goalplay rest or has finished it already. With the expiration of the contract of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge he is to be the end of next year, Chairman of the Board of the record master. To be no later than the time of another TV been-cooperation would be unthinkable. dpa Béla Réthy and Oliver Kahn, the football world Cup in 2014.

in parting, gave it for the former "goalkeeper-Titan" words of praise from the ZDF. "Oliver Kahn has supplied the audience with our Broadcasts of international tournaments and the Champions League due to its Expertise, a great value," said sports Director Thomas Carter. "In the long period of cooperation, he has analysed with an independent view of the encounters."

over the years, Kahn looser

in the Beginning, there was more mockery for the "TV-titanium". A little wood was the former world-class player who had performed as a professional, often impetuous, and derb demanded: "eggs, we need eggs." To the side of Johannes B. Kerner he seemed at first, especially trying not to make mistakes. And stressed often, what experience did he made himself as a player.

In the course of years, Kahn looser. He chatted to the side of Katrin Müller-Hohenstein, and was Moderator Oliver Welke to Oli and Oli and a cult brand. Once in a while a hint of self-irony, was even listening. During the ARD with your TV experts, such as Philipp has not been Lame or Mehmet Scholl always happy, was Kahn more than a decade of a constant at the ZDF.

The First has, in the meantime, with Bastian Schweinsteiger a prominent Ex-players under contract, the game will be debut in the fall. The Second will need to find a Kahn-successor. Not so easy, as the ARD has noticed, and also the private broadcaster RTL, after the unfortunate short-term commitment of Jürgen Klinsmann are also in search of a new TV experts.

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Date Of Update: 10 August 2020, 09:27