Urs Linsi

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Urs Linsi (born June 29, 1949 ) is a Swiss finance manager and sports official.

Life

Linsi studied economics and received his doctorate from the University of St. Gallen . He worked for Credit Suisse for more than 20 years , including as head of the leasing department. Linsi worked for FIFA from 1999 to 2007 . Linsi founded a management consultancy in 2007. In 2011 it was converted into a public limited company that also operates in the real estate sector. Linsi became a member of Airesis' board of directors in 2009 . He is active on other boards of directors and became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Sparhafen Zurich in August 2011 .

Linsi is involved in a non-profit foundation and on the board of an association for youth development.

Linsi is married and has three children. He lives in Zofingen in the canton of Aargau .

Sports

Linsi played football in lower amateur leagues and in university teams . After a knee injury, he ended his active career and spent two years as a football referee. Linsi started endurance sports in the mid-1980s . In 1988 he took part in a triathlon in Hawaii .

In 1989 Linsi founded the Powerman Zofingen , a duathlon competition event.

Sports official

FIFA

Linsi was Director of Finance at FIFA from July 1999 and Deputy Secretary General from January 2000. On December 17, 2002, he was appointed FIFA Secretary General in Madrid . Linsi was General Secretary until June 2007 and during his tenure was largely responsible for the financial restructuring of the world football association and for the construction of the Home of FIFA .

Linsi switched to FIFA in 1999 on a recommendation from Heinz Schurtenberger, a fellow student of Linsis and head of International Sport and Leisure (ISL). ISL also marketed sponsorship and television rights for sporting events on behalf of FIFA. The sports rights dealer went bankrupt in 2001 . In mid-2002, Linsi presented the association's financial report as Director of Finance at an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Seoul and played a key role in the campaign for the re-election of FIFA President Sepp Blatter . In the election as general secretary in 2002, Linsi had managed to prevail against various competitors at FIFA. Linsi was the fifth Swiss in a row to be appointed FIFA General Secretary. As Secretary General in 2004, Linsi was responsible for the licensing rights for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and 2014 in Brazil . The bidding process was stated to be transparent. He led tough renegotiations with the German Football Association for the 2006 World Cup . In December 2005, Linsi stated that FIFA was expecting a surplus of at least 110 million euros at the 2006 World Cup, which should significantly increase FIFA's equity base. In March 2007 Linsi announced an annual 2006 FIFA profit of 187 million euros. Linsi expected TV revenues to double for the 2010 World Cup. Since 2007 FIFA has been selling its TV rights for certain markets individually. So far, the rights had been sold together.

In 2005 Linsi did not succeed in dismissing his deputy Jérôme Champagne . When two of his confidants were dismissed from FIFA's finance department in February 2006, it confirmed that the general secretary had lost power. In July 2007, FIFA announced the dismissal of Linsi as general secretary. Swiss media interpreted the general secretary's dismissal as a "pawn" for the re-election of Blatters two weeks earlier. His business was temporarily handed over to Markus Kattner , FIFA's Director of Finance and Controlling. In October 2007, FIFA confirmed the payment of a severance payment of more than 7 million euros to Linsi due to the termination.

In March 2016, the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's report on its internal investigations at the German Football Association regarding the application for the 2006 World Cup also examined Linsi's role. Media reported that he was involved in a controversial transaction. It was a payment of 6.7 million euros to Robert Louis-Dreyfus . In June 2016 a Swiss news portal reported investigations by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office , and at the beginning of August 2019 charges were brought against Linsi and former DFB officials Theo Zwanziger , Wolfgang Niersbach and Horst Rudolf Schmidt .

Grasshopper Club Zurich

In September 2009 Linsi was appointed CEO by the Board of Directors of Neue Grasshopper Fussball AG . From February 2010 to April 2011, Linsi was President of the Grasshopper Club Zurich football club .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Executive appoints Dr. Urs Linsi as General Secretary of FIFA. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  2. ^ Farewell to FIFA Secretary General Urs Linsi. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The Metamorphoses of the Assistant Linsi. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Urs Linsi is to renovate Grasshoppers. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  5. ^ Linsi Consulting. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Linsi Consulting & Immobilien AG. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Urs Linsi. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ AIRESIS SA. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  9. ^ Hits on Urs Linsi. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b Urs Linsi. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  11. ^ Growth, Puberty and Adolescence Foundation. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  13. ^ Association for the promotion of young talent, sport. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Something of the old glory is back at Powerman Zofingen. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  15. ^ Blatters renovator Linsi gives up. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  16. ↑ One hundred to zero. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Unbridgeable opposites in Fifa. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  18. ↑ a b The godfather always wins. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  19. ↑ One hundred to zero. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  20. ↑ The round leather as a companion for life - Urs Linsi. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  21. ↑ FIFA creams off: World Cup as a money machine. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
  22. ↑ 187 million euros profit for FIFA. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  23. ↑ A rat race that leads to ruin. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
  24. ↑ FIFA Secretary General Linsi loses two loyalists. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  25. ^ Price of silence. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  26. ^ Blatters renovator Linsi gives up. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  27. ^ The quick departure of Fifa-Linsi. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Linsi farce costs Fifa £ 3.6m. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Internal investigation - investigation report. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  30. ↑ German autumn fairy tale with stripping to Switzerland. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  31. ↑ 6.7 million euros from Louis-Dreyfus were apparently never received by Fifa. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Ex-Fifa boss becomes risk for Sparhafen-Bank Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  33. Jump up ↑ Football: Indictment in connection with the German Football Association (DFB). Press release of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of August 6, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  34. ↑ Urs Linsi new CEO of Grasshoppers. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Board of Directors strengthened. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  36. ↑ An endless amateur theater. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Linsi, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss finance manager and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1949