At the end of September, Omid Nouripour resigned as federal executive of the Greens together with Ricarda Lang. Now the 49-year-old has found a new job. In the future, Nouripour will work for his favorite club in the Bundesliga.
German professional football is getting a prominent employee. Omid Nouripour, former federal chairman of the Greens, will work at Eintracht Frankfurt in the future. The 49-year-old politician, who resigned in September along with co-boss Ricarda Lang, will become the Bundesliga soccer club’s sustainability officer, as Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG announced at its general meeting on Monday. “Bild” first reported about it.
“The 49-year-old advises the supervisory board as an expert on social and political cooperation on all sustainability issues,” says the official club statement. “In this role, Nouripour will not only take part in the meetings of the Supervisory Board as a guest, but will also continue to be Chairman of the Sustainability Advisory Board of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG appointed by the Board of Directors.”
Nouripour has been chairman of the advisory board since the committee was founded in December 2022 and in this role advises the club on sustainability issues. With his new position as sustainability officer, he will now become a permanent member of the supervisory board and take on an official role with the Frankfurt company.
The self-confessed Eintracht fan, who came to Frankfurt from Iran at the age of 13, is looking forward to the new challenge. “I am a Frankfurter through and through,” emphasized Nouripour in an interview with “Bild” last September. Twelve years ago he also founded the Eintracht fan club “Die Bundesadler” in the German Bundestag, of which he is chairman.
Shareholders vote for capital increase
At their general meeting, the shareholders of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG also voted unanimously for a capital increase of up to 66 million euros for the current second-placed team. If the club members approve it at an extraordinary general meeting planned for February, the capital increase should be carried out within the first half of 2025.
The scope of the capital increase may not exceed the issue of 368,333 new shares and must amount to at least 179.41 euros per share. New shareholders must then undertake to transfer their voting rights to Eintracht Frankfurt eV.
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