German official leaves unanswered questions over 2006 World Cup cash


Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB) arrives for a news conference at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German soccer chief Wolfgang Niersbach said on Thursday he could not fully explain a payment of 6.7 million euros ($7.5 million) to the sport's governing body FIFA, a year before Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup.

Niersbach again denied a report by magazine Der Spiegel last week that a slush fund had been set up to enable the German organising committee to pay bribes to FIFA officials for awarding it the right to right to stage the tournament.

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