A Football Union of Russia (RFS) delegation headed by President Nikolay Tolstykh visited the German Football Association (DFB) headquarters to agree a comprehensive new cooperation programme. Chaired by DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach, the meetings evidenced the close personal rapport between the two leaders who both stressed the warm relations enjoyed by their respective associations for many years now.
The Frankfurt meeting had been preceded by a get-together in Berlin on 23 November, when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the two presidents and their General Secretaries, Helmut Sandrock (DFB) and Ekaterina Fedyshina (RFS), making the RFS the DFB's 15th international partner association.
Among other points, the joint venture features a declaration of intent to add a greater number of friendly matches between Russian and German national teams to the match calendar. In addition, the parties plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of coach education, talent identification and promotion, refereeing, and general administration. One of the proposals of particular interest to the RFS was the opportunity to benefit from the DFB-developed DFB.net, the online administration software developed to handle, amongst many other data, the transmission of match results, referee appointments, players' licenses, etc.
Transferring know-how in the organisation of international major events is one of the key areas covered by the MoU, with DFB representatives passing on the experience gained during the preparation for, and actual staging of, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011, thus assisting their Russian colleagues with organising the World Cup tournament in 2018.
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A Football Union of Russia (RFS) delegation headed by President Nikolay Tolstykh visited the German Football Association (DFB) headquarters to agree a comprehensive new cooperation programme. Chaired by DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach, the meetings evidenced the close personal rapport between the two leaders who both stressed the warm relations enjoyed by their respective associations for many years now.
The Frankfurt meeting had been preceded by a get-together in Berlin on 23 November, when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the two presidents and their General Secretaries, Helmut Sandrock (DFB) and Ekaterina Fedyshina (RFS), making the RFS the DFB's 15th international partner association.
Among other points, the joint venture features a declaration of intent to add a greater number of friendly matches between Russian and German national teams to the match calendar. In addition, the parties plan to intensify their cooperation in the areas of coach education, talent identification and promotion, refereeing, and general administration. One of the proposals of particular interest to the RFS was the opportunity to benefit from the DFB-developed DFB.net, the online administration software developed to handle, amongst many other data, the transmission of match results, referee appointments, players' licenses, etc.
Transferring know-how in the organisation of international major events is one of the key areas covered by the MoU, with DFB representatives passing on the experience gained during the preparation for, and actual staging of, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011, thus assisting their Russian colleagues with organising the World Cup tournament in 2018.
