BVB clears the future of Sammer: "We are not in the end with our task"

Borussia Dortmund has prematurely extended cooperation with Matthias Sammer until June 30, 2025. The BVB announced on Monday afternoon.

• Matthias Sammer: "How did the BVB have a lot"
• Three German championships with the BVB

"I am always very happy about it, in many topics, which incidentally not only involve the professional sector, to be able to use the expertise of Matthias Sammer," said Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke.

Sammer has been an external consultant for the board of BVB since 2018, which also belongs to Watzke. He recognized as a "renowned football expert who" to consider his "BVB from different angles," it said in the press release of the Revierklub.

Matthias Sammer: "How did the BVB have a lot"

Sammer's new contract bears "on request of both sides of the Corona Pandemic and its immense economic impact on the professional football bill," said the BVB.

"I am pleased that we will continue together the common path to Dortmund in the future. Michael Zorc (BVBs director, Note d. Red.) Will leave the club in the summer after many years, and I would like to contribute my part as an external consultant, To support the management and Michael's successor Sebastian Kehl for strength, "said Sammer.

The 54-year-old complemented: "The situation in the midst of a worldwide pandemic is challenging. We are not in the end with our task, with the BVB a lot before. Now let's go." According to "picture", Sammer therefore renounces parts of his consultant fee, which according to the leaf should have been located at over 500,000 euros so far.

Three German championships with the BVB

Sammer had won with the BVB as a player and later coach a total of three German championships as well as the Champions League and the World Cup in 1997. From 2006 to 2012 he worked as a BVBs manager at the DFB, then for four years as a BVBs board of FC Bayern. His post there he acknowledged in the spring of 2016 after a slight stroke.

Sammer decided then to never work in the operating business and is only active in the background as well as a TV expert.