Personae Non Gratae — Fortuna Düsseldorf
For these people, there is not even room on the longest bar in the world in Düsseldorf…...
Personae Non Gratae
For these people, there is not even room on the longest bar in the world in Düsseldorf…...
For these people, there is not even room
For these people, there is not even room on the longest bar in the world in Düsseldorf…...
For these people, there is not even room on the longest bar in the world in Düsseldorf…
Michael Preetz: goal scorer in the middle of
Michael Preetz: goal scorer in the middle of a storm of abuse.
Michael Preetz: goal scorer in the middle of a storm of abuse. The Düsseldorf-born former Fortuna forward, who scored 20 goals in 88 league matches between 1986 and 1990, tried in 2012 to stop his old club’s promotion through the courts after the relegation playoff. Even after the DFB rejected Hertha’s request for a replay of the chaotic second leg on 21 May 2012, sporting director Preetz and Hertha went to the DFB Federal Court – and crashed out badly. It did not help that Berlin coach Otto Rehhagel resorted to embarrassing Second World War comparisons. Fortuna fans were boiling. Social media comments calling Preetz everything from a sore loser to an outright idiot followed. Social media makes people brave.
Dr. Michael Kölmel: and they are still paying…
Dr.
Dr. Michael Kölmel: and they are still paying… Fortuna Düsseldorf are still suffering from the financial misery of the 1990s and early 2000s. Even after promotion to the Bundesliga in 2018, the club still had to pass on a hefty share of its TV money to Michael Kölmel of Kinowelt. Fifteen percent of the television revenues earned in the top flight had to be transferred to him. The origin of the agreement dates back to 1999. Fortuna were playing in the Regionalliga West-Südwest, a collecting basin for bankrupt former Bundesliga clubs. They signed a marketing contract with the owner of Sportwelt. It was not a good deal. The club received an immediate 7.4 million euro loan; in return, Kölmel – who had already been convicted in 2002 for delaying insolvency proceedings – has, since 2008, received that money back plus 15 percent of all TV income. Fortuna later tried to annul the contract in court. Their only success came in April 2013, when a special repayment reduced the burden to “only” half of what it might have been. But according to SPORT BILD, Kölmel, “Mr. Fifteen Percent”, was still collecting from Fortuna’s TV revenues through 2023 unless another special cut intervened. In 2018 alone, after promotion, he pocketed 3.7 million euros.
Darko Pančev: the biggest transfer flop. It remains
Darko Pančev: the biggest transfer flop.
Darko Pančev: the biggest transfer flop. It remains bizarre that Macedonian striker Darko Pančev – European Cup and Intercontinental Cup winner with Red Star Belgrade in 1991 – ended up at Bundesliga cellar side Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1995/96 after a spell so poor that it had already been judged a failure at relegated VfB Leipzig. In 14 matches, Pančev scored only twice, and by March 1996 he was no longer in Fortuna’s squad. Fortuna had paid Inter Milan the equivalent of half a million euros in loan fees for the centre-forward.
Personae Non Gratae — Update 2020–2026
As coach, Uwe Rosler presided over the 2020 relegation.
As coach, Uwe Rosler presided over the 2020
As coach, Uwe Rosler presided over the 2020 relegation.
As coach, Uwe Rosler presided over the 2020 relegation. The former Manchester City player could not stabilise the team after Friedhelm Funkel’s dismissal.