The German Football
Ambassador
The German Football Ambassador represent Germany
throughout the world.This initiative honors the work of
coaches and players each year and by joining culture
and sport, it is meant to promote the positive image of
Germany in foreign countries.
News
Honorary Awardwinner 2019 Otto Pfister and book author Martin Koßmann The German Football Ambassadors 2022 and 2017: Jochen Figge and …
President Roland Bischof visited DFB team after final training session Last year’s winner Kai Havertz also received his award in …
AWARDS & NOMINEES 2022
İLKAY GÜNDOĞAN ELECTED AS WINNER OF THE
PUBLIC AWARD 2022
FANS VOTE FOR HIM TO BE KAI HAVERTZ’ FOLLOW-UP
In an online voting, the 31-year-old professional of the current English Premier League champion Manchester City came out on top ahead of PSG star player Sara Däbritz and 2014 World Cup winner and five-time Champions League winner Toni Kroos (Real Madrid).
JOCHEN FIGGE
WINS MAIN CATEGORY AND SUCCEEDS
ULI STIELIKE
Dr Carolin Braun and Franco Foda complete final trio
The “German Football Ambassador 2022” is Jochen Figge (main category). The internationally active football coach beat Dr. Carolin Braun and Franco Foda in the final by jury decision. The high-calibre jury did not have an easy choice, as the selected candidates were convincing in different ways, but were all successful.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER RECEIVES HONORARY AWARD 2022
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the German Football Ambassadors e.V. will award Franz Beckenbauer with the Honorary Award 2022. The award stands for the life’s work of the football legend and will be presented with the participation of numerous celebrities on 19 May 2022 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. “All those who were able to get to know him privately see a person full of kindness, down-to-earthness and generous charity. Or in this case: an absolutely worthy winner of the 2022 Honorary Award for his life’s work!”, Roland Bischof, as President of the non-profit association, had already emphasised at the announcement.
Franz Beckenbauer expressed his thanks via video message: “I would like to thank you very much for this award. It is a great honour for me.” As he was unable to attend in person due to the stress of travelling, Heidrun Beckenbauer accepted the award on behalf of her husband from Reiner Calmund, who also held the laudatory speech.
HALL OF FAME
The recipients of the German Football Ambassador Award in category coach, as well as leading figures, that proved themselves as global ambassadors of the German football for over 25 years enter the Hall of Fame if chosen by the jury.
DETTMAR
CRAMER
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2013 HONORARY AWARD
SAMI
KHEDIRA
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2013 PUBLIC AWARD
JÜRGEN
KLOPP
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2019
RUDI
GUTENDORF
COACH LEGEND
MIROSLAV
KLOSE
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2017 HONORARY AWARD
MONIKA
STAAB
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2014
HOLGER
OBERMANN
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR
2013
GERNOT
ROHR
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2016
BERND
SCHUSTER
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2019 HONORARY AWARD
UWE
SEELER
FOOTBALL LEGEND
ANJA
ZIVKOVIC
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2020
ROBIN
GOSENS
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2020 PUBLIC AWARD
LEON GORETZKA
& JOSHUA KIMMICH
GERMAN FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR 2020 HONORARY AWARD
AWARD-CEREMONY
2013-2021
Award for German Football coaches and players who are committed to the positive development of football and society abroad.
INITIATOR - Roland Bischof is the driving force behind the idea of the German Football Ambassador
For 10 years now, Roland Bischof has been the driving force behind the good idea of the German Football Ambassador. With great commitment and private financing (the football ambassador has no public funding such as grants or subsidies!) he built up a nationally known and internationally active movement in a very short time.
He brought numerous supporting personalities and companies together, whereby Rainer Holzschuh and Dr. Norbert Taubken in particular, were important companions and close advisors on his way.
Celisa Pereira has accompanied the football ambassador from the very beginning. Among others, she works for PRESENTED BY… GmbH in the creative sector.
Guido Kambli managed to combine his enthusiasm for sport & media with his professional activities. He begun as a journalist and sports reporter, later on continued as managing director of an event agency and since 1993 he is an independent lawyer.
Horst Hrubesch is a former soccer player and DFB trainer. As a player, he won three German championship titles, the European Cup of State Champions and became European Champion. As coach he became European Champion of the U21, U19 as well as silver medallist of the Olympic Games 2016. Hrubesch is also Walter-Bensemann-Prize winner.
Doris Fitschen is a retired German football player and former assistant to the women’s national team head coach Silvia Neid. Fitschen has been the manager of the women’s national team since 2009.
Dr. Martin Schaefer was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini from the end of 2017 until August 2021 and has been Envoy at the German Embassy in Paris since September 2021. As a former passionate football player, his coaching licence is currently lying useless in the cupboard due to lack of time. At the German Embassy in South Africa, he already had a deep look behind the scenes of the World Cup 2010.
Berti Vogts is former regular player at Borussia Mönchengladbach and became European Champion in 1972 and World Champion in 1974 with the German national team. After his active player time he was national coach in Germany, Kuweit, Scotland, Nigeria and Azerbaijan. Since 2018 he has been a member of the jury of the Deutscher Fussball Botschafter e.V.
Lutz Pfannenstiel has been active as a goalkeeper on all continents. Since August 2020, he has been sports director at the future MLS club St. Louis City SC. Before that, Pfannenstiel worked as a football expert for DAZN, BBC and ZDF, among others, trained international coaches at the German Football Association (DFB) and was most recently the sports director at Fortuna Düsseldorf. Since 2009, he has been involved in climate protection with his project “Global United FC”.
JURY
Horst
Hrubesch
Former football player & DFB coach – actual coach of U23 Hamburger SV
DORIS
FITSCHEN
Former football player – Head of the German Football Association (DFB) project "Strategy 2027 - Women in Football"
Dr. Martin
Schaefer
Envoy at the German Embassy in Paris
Lutz
Pfannenstiel
Sports director of the MLS club
St. Louis City SC
BOARD
Dr. Norbert
Taubken
German Football Ambassador Advisory Board Chairman - Partner at Scholz & Friends Agency
Roland
Bischof
President of the German Football Ambassador – Managing director of
PRESENTED BY GmbH
Celisa
Pereira
Founding member of the German Football Ambassador – PRESENTED BY GmbH creative
Guido
Kambli
Lawyer at Bay GmbH
ADVISORY BOARD
Johannes
Ebert
Secretary General of Goethe-Institut
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Member of the UEFA Executive Committee
Sylvia
Walker
Sports presenter
Monika
Staab
Coach & pioneer of German women's football
Urs
Meier
Former worldclass referee - football expert and speake
Katrin Müller-Hohenstein
Sports presenter
