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Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeneß said during a testimony on Monday that he knew nothing about the purpose of an alleged payment from French entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the late German football great Franz Beckenbauer. “I don’t know what the money was for,” Hoeneß said and ruled out the possibility that the money was used to buy votes to award Germany the 2006 World Cup. “FIFA was a pretty corrupt bunch back then. You could even think about buying a World Cup. But I’m still convinced that the German Football Federation (DFB) and Germany didn’t do that. I’m sure of that,” Hoe…

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