Not legend but plain truth — albeit pretty little known — is that former SC Freiburg president and 13th DFB president Fritz Keller had a special relationship with Fritz Walter. The real one, not the former Stuttgart striker. Keller, a winegrower from Baden, was linked to the great German football icon because he was Walter’s godson.
Walter, together with other Heroes of Bern, liked to stop by the “Schwarzer Adler” restaurant in Oberbergen am Kaiserstuhl, which Keller’s father ran. The high point of Keller’s administrative career came in September 2019, when he became president of the German Football Association.