Nicole Kumpis has been elected president of third tier Eintracht Braunschweig – the first woman in this role in German professional football in three decades. “My mobile wouldn’t stop. It made bigger waves than I expected,” Kumpis told a news conference on Thursday. Elected the previous day in a narrow 472-411 vote over businessman Axel Ditzinger, regional Red Cross board member Kumpis is the first female president in the 112-year history of the 1967 Bundesliga champions – and the first woman in charge of a German professional club since Lielotte Knecht led 1860 Munich in 1991. Kumpis said tha…