“Shaping the future closed and with visions”

Oliver Kahn, CEO of record champions Bayern Munich, was elected to the board of the European Club Association ECA on Thursday. The 52-year-old succeeds Michael Gerlinger on the committee, the director of legal affairs at FC Bayern has resigned from his position as vice-chairman of the ECA after around four years.

“International football is currently experiencing the most profound changes in its history, plus other challenges such as COVID-19 and the consequences of this pandemic,” said Kahn in Paris: “Our task is to ensure that European football remains a model for success.”

This requires “absolute cohesion among the international clubs: we have to shape the future as one and with visions.”

On the ECA board, the long-time national goalkeeper Kahn will meet the bosses of Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen, Hans-Joachim Watzke and Fernando Carro, among others. Since the Super League quake in the spring of Paris St. Germains club boss Nasser al-Khelaifi has been chairman.