Dispute over the national team training base

National team manager Jurgen Klinsmann insisted on finding an alternative venue of training base for the FIFA 2006 World Cup, which was contrary to the DfB’s prior agreement with 1.Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen to use its BayArena stadium. Leverkusen was chosen as the site of Germany's training camp, partly because the BayArena stadium, with a capacity of 22,500, is too small to host FIFA World Cup matches, and because the club's corporate sponsor, pharmaceuticals giant Bayer, financially helped Germany's campaign to host the tournament. "The coaching staff cannot make itself the board of the federation. I won't have it, I’d rather step down in that case," German Football Association treasurer Theo Zwanziger commented to media

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