Soccer-Time running out for German FA chief Keller after Nazi comment


FILE PHOTO: Bundesliga - SC Freiburg v Borussia Dortmund - Schwarzwald-Stadion, Freiburg, Germany - October 5, 2019 President of the German Football Association Fritz Keller before the match REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Football Association (DFB) President Fritz Keller was still clinging on to his job on Tuesday as a campaign gathered pace to have him sacked over a Nazi reference directed at his deputy.

Keller, who took over in September 2019 with a brief to reform an organisation plagued by scandal over irregular payments, faces a sports court judgement over the comment addressed to vice president Rainer Koch.

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