Deisler injury costs DFB

The German Football Association (DFB) has agreed to pay an unspecified sum in compensation to 1. Bundesliga club FC Bayern München after midfield player Sebastian Deisler was injured on international duty last May.

Bayern incensed
Bayern were angered when the highly rated playmaker sustained severe knee damage in Germany's 6-2 victory against Austria in a warm-up match for the FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan, from which the 22-year-old has yet to recover.

Compensation package
Normally the DFB will pay a club €7,500 for every match a player misses through an injury sustained on international duty. Bayern demanded a higher sum of compensation - reported to be €4m - although the settlement is somewhere between €550,000 and €1m.

Insurance premiums
Bayern general manager Uli Hoeness, plus BV Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen counterparts Michael Meier and Reiner Calmund, along with DFB executives, have agreed to set about the task of working out the cost of insurance premiums for German internationals following a groundbreaking meeting in Frankfurt.

'Fair solution'
"We have reached a fair solution," said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge while DFB president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder described the case as "closed", claiming it did not set a precedent.