the executive committee of european football's governing body. heat of whom does the i resign as german football federation president. and i apologize for confirming prejudices against football officials with my less than exemplary action of accepting a watch. grendel was put on the defensive more and more recently germany's disastrous twenty eighteen world cup campaign one such example but some of the criticism hit much closer to home last week it came to light that grendel failed to declare income of seventy eight thousand euros earned for being chairman of the federation subsidiary media company questions over grendel's leadership style never went away especially his handling of the mess that is iliffe air when the now retired international met and appeared to endorse turkish president ratchet tie up