Marriage for only one year: "It hurts so much": Ex-DFB boss Niersbach and his wife split up

For nine years Wolfgang Niersbach and his girlfriend Marion Popp examine each other - then they give each other the "yes" word. Apparently hastily. Because after only a year of marriage she pulls the tear line. The 74-year-old looks still months later quite bewildered at the matter.

In October 2023, the former president of the German Football Federation had married his long-standing partner. Now the marriage of Wolfgang Niersbach and Marion Popp has been broken.

Ex-DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach and entrepreneur Marion Popp are separated. Only in the fall of 2023 did the couple get married at the Munich registry office.

Wolfgang Niersbach (74) is going through a difficult time. After a little more than a year his marriage with Marion Popp failed. The former DFB president confirms this to the picture and explains: "It was my wife's wish. Marion has moved out. I feel very sorry for the end of our marriage and also very hurt." The football functionist makes no secret of his grief. "I had planned our lives together, that's why we got married in the fall of 2023. We…

It was his wife's wish, the 74-year-old said about the end of the relationship with Marion Popp. Niersbach and the entrepreneur had been a couple for many years before the wedding in 2023.

Wolfgang Niersbach and his wife separated after only 14 months of marriage.The former president of the German Football Association (DFB) confirmed this in the "Bild" newspaper after only 14 months of marriage: Wolfgang Niersbach (74) and his 23 years younger wife Marion Popp go separate ways.This was confirmed by the former president of the German Football Association (DFB) of the "Bild" newspaper. Accordingly, the couple already separated in De…