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Rinner elected new Bundesliga boss

By Thomas Hochwarter

Sturm Graz president Hans Rinner has been elected new head of the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Rinner yesterday (Mon) received 75 of the 80 votes handed in by officials at the ten Bundesliga clubs and the twelve clubs competing in the Erste Liga, the second-highest league in Austrian football.

Only Rapid Vienna bosses did not vote for the 46-year-old.

Rapid president Rudolf Edlinger said he was not in favour of the president of a club presiding over the league as well.

Edlinger – who had launched the same criticism at Rinner’s predecessor and Mattersburg president Martin Pucher – had backed Dietmar Hoscher as next Bundesliga president before the head of betting company and league sponsor tipp3 withdrew his candidacy recently. Hoscher said he felt "insulted on a personal level" by some of the criticism he had faced.

Austria Vienna executive manager Markus Kraetschmer was elected as first deputy head of the league, while former Wacker Tirol officials Gerhard Stocker was voted second deputy to Rinner.

Red Bull Salzburg official Volker Viechtbauer and Hubert Nagel – president of Erste Liga club Austria Lustenau – will form the Bundesliga’s supervisory board.

Mattersburg president Martin Pucher said last month he would not run for a second term as Bundesliga chief.

Pucher – who backed Rinner as his successor – explained he had made his decision last year, but decided not to make it public earlier in order to avoid a "lengthy, public feud about who will become my successor".

Austrian Times

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