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Bundesliga: DFL before investors get involved - German football and the billions: The German Football League, organizer and marketer of the Bundesliga ...
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Bundesliga: DFL before investors get involved - German football and the ...
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Rummenigge on Rubiales' kiss: "What he did is - sorry, with all due respect - absolutely fine"
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Rummenigge on Rubiales' kiss:
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The great silence: he Bundesliga clubs cheat on their sustainability balances
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The great silence
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Hops pessimistic: "German soccer has been left behind": At the Women's World Cup, German soccer suffered the next serious setback. While DFB President Bernd ...
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Hops pessimistic:
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Internal solution: dual leadership takes over DFL management: Since Donata Hopfen left as managing director, a duo has been running the German Football League on ...
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Internal solution: dual leadership takes over DFL management
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New DFL management: multi-headed management: At the German Football League (DFL), a multi-headed solution is emerging in the search for a new management ...
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New DFL management: multi-headed management
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Eintracht Frankfurt: New DFL boss: More and more speaks for Hellmann! | Sports: Great excitement at Eintracht Frankfurt, exciting discussions at the German ...
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Eintracht Frankfurt: New DFL boss: More and more speaks for Hellmann! | ...
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Out for DFL managing director Hopfen: That's why the first league chief failed: She was the first woman to hold one of the most important posts in German soccer ...
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Out for DFL managing director Hopfen: That's why the first league chief ...
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CEO departures of Kriwet and Hopfen: How managers succeed in leaving.: Donata Hopfen and Carla Kriwet vacated their CEO posts this week. After just a few months ...
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CEO departures of Kriwet and Hopfen: How managers succeed in leaving.
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German soccer in crisis: it's about more than the national team: After the DFB and Oliver Bierhoff parted ways, the next leader in German soccer, Donata Hopfen ...
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German soccer in crisis: it's about more than the national team
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"Kicker": DFL boss Hopfen threatened with premature replacement - Only in office since January
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Hainer announces Kahn commitment to DFL: President Herbert Hainer announces that FC Bayern will help strengthen the DFL in the person of Oliver Kahn following ...
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Hainer announces Kahn commitment to DFL
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Managing Director Hops leaves DFL: The German Football League and Managing Director Donata Hopfen are ending the cooperation, as the DFL announced on Wednesday
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Managing Director Hops leaves DFL
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Trust lost: DFL boss Hopfen to be replaced: Donata Hopfen's days at the helm of the German Football League seem numbered: The majority of the professional clubs ...
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Trust lost: DFL boss Hopfen to be replaced
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Bundesliga: DFL boss Donata Hopfen threatened with replacement: After just under a year in office, it could come to the termination of her contract already this ...
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Bundesliga: DFL boss Donata Hopfen threatened with replacement
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Bundesliga: DFL boss Donata Hopfen faces sacking: The supervisory board of the DFL meets this week. It is also to deal with the personnel Donata Hopfen ...
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Bundesliga: DFL boss Donata Hopfen faces sacking
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Donata Hopfen: The showdown for the DFL leadership has already begun.: Donata Hopfen is threatened with the end as DFL boss. She is a stranger to soccer and has ...
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Donata Hopfen: The showdown for the DFL leadership has already begun.
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Hopfen certainly let frustration show through in her departure - and also smugly kicked up a fuss in her LinkedIn post:

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Contract to be terminated: DFL boss Hopfen resigns from office: Already on Sunday, the kicker had exclusively reported that Donata Hopfen threatened the exit ...
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Contract to be terminated: DFL boss Hopfen resigns from office
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Following the termination of DFL chief Donata Hopfen's contract, the dual leadership of Axel Hellmann (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Oliver Leki (SC Freiburg) ... Show more

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Confirmed: DFL chief Hopfen to quit at the end of the year - dissent over strategy
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Confirmed: DFL chief Hopfen to quit at the end of the year - dissent over ...
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DFL boss Donata Hopfen must go: The separation is the result of a supervisory board meeting. Hopfen had only come into office in January 2022.
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DFL boss Donata Hopfen must go
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DFL: Seifert successor Donata Hopfen must go: The German Soccer League (DFL) is making a change in leadership. The previous boss, Donata Hopfen ...
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DFL: Seifert successor Donata Hopfen must go
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DFB and DFL: German soccer without a leader.: After only eleven months, DFL managing director Donata Hopfen has to go. She never presented a clear vision ...
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DFB and DFL: German soccer without a leader.
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Hellmann and Leki take over interim DFL leadership: The dual leadership will take over the duties of the previous managing director Donata Hopfen until the new ...
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Hellmann and Leki take over interim DFL leadership
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No time for experiments: DFL boss Donata hops before the end
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No time for experiments
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Donata Hopfen and the DFL: Few convincing answers: DFL Managing Director Donata Hopfen is apparently threatened with the end. In difficult economic times ...
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Donata Hopfen and the DFL: Few convincing answers
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DFB team: The network reactions to the end of Oliver Bierhoff: Fredi Bobic at the DFB? Why, apart from the lack of beer in the name, that can't be done ...
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DFB team: The network reactions to the end of Oliver Bierhoff
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Eintracht board spokesman Axel Hellmann going to the DFL?: The DFL Supervisory Board is discussing an interim solution after Donata Hopfen has been replaced ...
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Eintracht board spokesman Axel Hellmann going to the DFL?
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Ex-HSV manager Kraus calls for rethinking after Hopfen's DFL-Aus: Ex-HSV manager Kraus calls for a rethink in the DFL
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Ex-HSV manager Kraus calls for rethinking after Hopfen's DFL-Aus
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The construction sites of the German Football League: The German Football League is rumbling. Many Bundesliga clubs are dissatisfied with the management ...
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The construction sites of the German Football League
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Quick end: Managing Director Hopfen has to leave the DFL: Donata Hopfen's football career ends quickly. At the beginning of the year she took over the management ...
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Quick end: Managing Director Hopfen has to leave the DFL
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The sirens and warning apps should howl on Warning Day: News, photos, videos and podcasts from the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from Mannheim and the metropolitan region
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The sirens and warning apps should howl on Warning Day
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Followed up by Alfred Draxler: hop away! The gentlemen among themselves again … | Sports
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Followed up by Alfred Draxler: hop away! The gentlemen among themselves ...