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Bavaria, news and rumours: Völler gave Hoeneß a basket
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Maria KeaneUli Hoeneß doesn’t get everything he wants. In 2009, for example, he bit his teeth out at Rudi Völler. You can find out here what record Robert Lewandowski has broken again. Current news and rumors about FC Bayern.
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Bayern, News: Why Völler gave Hoeneß a basket
In the summer of 2022, Rudi Völler will retire from operational business after 24 years in a wide variety of positions at Bayer Leverkusen. in the Current gym of ZDF, the 62-year-old told how he almost ended up at FC Bayern, but gave Uli Hoeneß a basket.
Hoeneß wanted to install Völler as a successor to the managerial post in 2009, when he himself moved to the supervisory board of the record champions.
“It’s a great honor when a club like Bayern and, above all, a person like Uli Hoeneß trusted me with the job,” said Völler, who explained that he had sat with Hoeneß in his house on Tegernsee at the time.
But he canceled out of solidarity with Leverkusen. Völler: “I’ve been at Leverkusen for many years and if you’re in a responsible position then you love this club at the end of the day.”
Völler hands over his business at Bayer to ex-professional Simon Rolfes and himself becomes the club’s ambassador and member of the shareholders’ committee.
Bavaria, News: Fine because of pyros threatens
At the away game in Mainz, FC Bayern did not look good either on the pitch or in the stands. Even before the newly crowned German champions let themselves be overrun by the hosts on the field, the Munich supporters in the Mewa Arena caused displeasure.
Fireworks were set off several times in the early stages of the game in the Bayern block. The stadium announcer made urgent appeals to the perpetrators four times. The club is now threatened with a fine.
Bayern, News: Next record for Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski set another personal record with his goal to make it 2-1 in Bayern’s defeat in Mainz. It was the Pole’s 18th goal in opposing stadiums this season. Nobody had managed such an away series before.
Even last season, when Lewandowski scored a historic record of 41 goals, he “only” scored 14 times abroad. In the current season, the 33-year-old has two games to go with 34 goals.
Bayern, News: What did Julian Nagelsmann want to say?
After the defeat in Mainz, Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann caused a stir with his mixed zone interview. The central sentence: “We are at a point where we have to change something.” The whole of football Germany is of course wondering what the young master coach meant by that. We have investigated the question in a detailed analysis.
Bundesliga: The top scorer list
Place | player | team | Goals (from penalties) |
1. | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich | 34 (5) |
2. | Erling Haaland | Borussia Dortmund | 21 (5) |
2. | Patrick Schick | Bayer Leverkusen | 21 (1) |
4. | Anthony Modest | 1. FC Cologne | 19 (1) |
5. | Christopher Nkunku | RB Leipzig | 17 (1) |
6. | Taiwo Awoniyi | 1.FC Union Berlin | 13 (1) |
6. | Serge Gnabry | Bayern Munich | 13 (0) |
8th. | Moussa Diaby | Bayer Leverkusen | 12 (0) |
9. | Jonathan Burkhardt | 1.FSV Mainz 05 | 11 (1) |
9. | Max Kruse | 1.FC Union Berlin VfL Wolfsburg |
11 (5) |
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