Almuth Schult criticizes travel practice of the DFB

For the and departure to the past World Cup qualifiers, the German Football Association rented a machine of the Lithuanian airline, with which the association works together.

This partnership sees national player Almuth Schult critically. Their question, why the DFB chartered a plane from Lithuania as at the EM, wrote the 30-year-old goalkeeper in her column for the Editorial Network Germany (RND) with a view to the World Cup qualifier of the DFB selection in Iceland last Wednesday. From Lithuania to Iceland, from Iceland to Germany and Germany to Lithuania. These are more than 1500 kilometers of extra road.

Is it exemplary to set the reduction of costs about the CO2 emissions?

Almuth Schult

The national goalkeeper asked: Are not we always talking more frequently - and fortunately in football - about sustainability and more climate neutrality? Is it exemplary to put the reduction of costs over the CO2 emissions and that as a well-behaved sports association? This question should also make many clubs in which the decisions are often similarly made . The football wool model. He also has to implement it, Should Schult.

bumpy return flight - onward journey with spare plane

The return flight of the men's national team of Iceland had caused great a stir because the charter machine started in Reykjavik had a large part of the team on board because of a defective replacement electric generator at the airport of Edinburgh. The return journey was continued in a substitute aircraft.

The DFB actually has a contract with the Lufthansa until the year 2022, but the association is currently accessing alternatives. Last year, the German airline highly battered because of the Corona Pandemic had to be rescued with a billion package of the Federal Government. DFB Director Oliver Bierhoff had emphasized at the end of July, but that a continuation of the partnership should be spoken.