Former German football association president Wolfgang Niersbach has expressed regret at not telling his fellow DFB board members about a €6.7 million payment to an account in Qatar in 2005 when he was made aware of it 10 years later.
Niersbach admitted the last few months have been the worst of his life amid allegations he had known about a payment made in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup, which Germany hosted, allegedly made to secure votes to stage the tournament.
Niersbach resigned as DFB president once details of the payment came to light last November, while an independent report this week revealed the flow of payments which ended up in Qatar.