Union boss Dirk Zingler attacks politics and Markus Söder: “Clown from Munich”

At the general meeting of 1. FC Union Berlin, President Dirk Zingler launched a sweeping attack against the politics of the federal government and against Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder.

Söder had recently campaigned again for ghost games in the Bundesliga, Zingler then referred to Söder – without specifically naming him – as a “clown from Munich”.

In general, the Union boss took a sharp approach to politics and its work during the now almost two-year corona crisis. “I would like clear leadership. Crises have to be managed and communicated well. We don’t do any of that,” said Zingler. “If the Bundestag decides something with a majority and it becomes law. Then it will be so. But we are in complete chaos!”

Zingler: “Disastrously managed, disastrously communicated”

Zingler only sees politics as responsible for the permanent crisis from which football is also suffering. “People’s insecurity comes from the fact that they hear something different every day. What we create as a communicative disaster leads to disinterest on the part of people because they can no longer keep up. Everyone says something different. But we want a clear and understandable one Politics.”

Zingler definitely does not want to leave the argument that football is one of the drivers of the pandemic. Instead, there are always new regulations that ordinary people and companies have long since lost sight of. “Our country is in a catastrophic state because it was led and communicated catastrophically.”