Wolfsburg/Leipzig – The former Bundesliga manager Jörg Schmadtke (58) has the recent verbal attacks from football fans against RB Leipzig’s Max Eberl (49) sharply condemned and asked the DFB to act.
Ex-Wolfsburg managing director Jörg Schmadtke (58, right) calls on the DFB to act after various attacks on RB Leipzig’s Max Eberl (49). (archive image) © Federico Gambarini/dpa
“What’s going on in the fan curves of the so-called traditional clubs is unsavory and not appropriate. It’s a scandal for me that people in football are insulted below the belt and get away with it unpunished,” Schmadtke told the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung.
In doing so, he reacted to abusive posters from football fans against the former manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach and current sports director of cup winners RB Leipzig.
Eberl gave up his post in Gladbach at the beginning of 2022 and took up his new post in Leipzig last December. There he had spoken in retrospect of a point “where you were dead, where you were tired. It was a time when I had to stop as a person.”
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Both fans of 1. FC Köln and recently 1. FC Union Berlin had disparaged the 49-year-old on banners, also because of his move to RB.
“I would be interested to know if these people know what burnout means,” he said after the game in Cologne.
First 1. FC Köln, most recently Union Berlin: supporters insulted RB Leipzig’s sports director several times in the worst possible way. © Robert Michael/dpa
“In the curves, some apparently think they can do whatever they want. However, they don’t care what they can do with it,” criticized Schmadtke now.
In addition, the 58-year-old, who recently left VfL Wolfsburg as managing director, called for the DFB to intervene. “I wonder why the DFB isn’t taking action against these smear campaigns,” said Schmadtke.
It cannot be that people from football are insulted in the worst way and the association does not intervene.
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“In the case of Max Eberl, I expect that the association’s control committee will investigate and impose penalties on the clubs whose fans allow themselves to do something like this. Such gaffes must not be tolerated and must be severely sanctioned and punished,” emphasized Schmadtke .
