FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - World Cup Qualifiers Europe - Germany Training - Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena, Duisburg, Germany - March 24, 2021 President of the German football federation (DFB) Fritz Keller REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Football Association (DFB) chief Fritz Keller on Monday stepped down following a furore over a Nazi comment directed at a vice president but urged the world's biggest sports federation to change in order to earn back trust.
Keller, who took over as president in September 2019 with a brief to reform an organisation already plagued by scandal over irregular payments, had addressed his comment to vice president Rainer Koch.
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