Another team is now getting involved in the question of who should head MSV Duisburg in the future. Two names are already known to Forcasting.

It’s getting exciting in the MSV Duisburg board election. A third team, consisting of five members, will soon introduce itself. Forcasting knows: Dennis Baaten, a Duisburg tax consultant, will be on board, as will Christian Stiefelhagen.

When Forcasting reached Baaten on Thursday evening, he confirmed: “Yes, I will be part of a board team that will stand for election at the general meeting on July 23.”

Baaten is one of five silhouettes presenting themselves on the “Team 1902” website. The team will officially introduce itself on Monday, June 24 at 7:02 pm. The five candidates have been given the attributes “zebra heart”, “zebra virus”, “financial savvy”, “fan savvy” and “soccer savvy”.

Tax consultant Baaten is likely to be behind “financial savvy”. According to our information, another face will be Christian Stiefelhagen, a member of the MSV Duisburg fan club Innenhafen. He is to run for chairman. Forcasting can confirm a corresponding report in the NRZ.

The remaining three members have also been confirmed. Baaten did not want to reveal their names when asked by Forcasting and referred to the official presentation in eleven days. According to Forcasting information, Georg Mewes, sporting director at 1. FC Kleve, will also play a role and be on board as a kind of consultant. However, Baaten denied this.

“Team1902 has been forming for several weeks to run on this day. Together with our board team, we want to realign and help shape the future of the club with heart, mind and competence after the fall into the regional league. Bloodless performances should be a thing of the past again in future. Not only on the pitch, but also off the pitch,” reads the website.

It was only on Monday, June 10, that the team, previously known as “Zebras. We. Together”. The quartet of Sebastian Paradis, board member of A-Kreisliga club SV Duissern, Bernd Maas, who previously worked for MSV as managing director from 2013 to 2016, Christian Poll and Gerhard Dürrbaum announced that they had officially submitted their team candidacy to the MSV Duisburg election committee.

On Tuesday, June 11, the “MSV Future” team of Thomas Maaßen, Andreas Tappe, Kai-Uwe Otto and Jörg Dahms also presented itself to the press