Munich - After the chaos of World Cup in Canada, he will miss the German ice hockey again a better image.
And Erich Kühnhackl (58), "Man of the Century" and since Monday elected vice-chairman of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB), is the matter with a lot of energy.
"It is something needs to be changed, because we all agree," said the bronze medalist of 1976. In particular, the doping case, Florian Busch, and the scandal surrounding the ineligible German Canadians Jason Holland had seen at the World Cup for negative headlines. Kühnhackl: "I am 100 percent certain that it will not happen."
With his return to the DEB Kühnhackl puts his coaching career on hold for the time being. On 23 November 2007 he had been at the Straubing Tigers after ten defeats in twelve games in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) dismissed, since he was without a job. "They should never say never", although he thinks that if he is asked for a return to the trainers bench, but at first he sits in the boardroom: "By 2010 I gave my word. And I stand by my word. "
