01x03 - Episode 3

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A soccer life doesn't last a lifetime.

There's a limit.

I hope I can play beyond the age of 35.

So I try to enjoy my time,

but when I'm older

I also want to be able to look in

the mirror and know I did all I could.

I couldn't live with myself

knowing I could have tried harder.

You can't say the red carpet has

been rolled out for me from the start,

because I've had to fight

for everything I have.

When I was 16 years old

I lost my father.

It was among

the hardest times of my life.

I had to try and solve

many problems all by myself.

Around that time

I was told my contract

wouldn't be renewed after the season.

My mother picked me up after practice.

Maybe I was crying,

but I didn't want to her to know.

That was a moment

where you have to make a choice.

You either say, "Okay, it's over."

Or you believe in yourself, no matter

what, and show them how good you are.

We have a very exciting show for you

with The Best FIFA Men's Player.

Even during such a strange year,

even without fans,

we've seen so much brilliant football,

and it's given us

this outstanding shortlist for 2020.

When you've worked so hard for so long,

trained so hard to

improve your performance,

to be part of the era of Messi and

Ronaldo, that is something very special.

The dream comes true!

And to announce the winner

we have the FIFA President

on the line! - I would say, rather

than announcing who the winner is,

why not make him a surprise?

And the winner is Robert Lewandowski!

Too tight?

- No. It's great.

Have a look for yourself

and adjust your collar.

Thanks, Coach!

Tonight we will also pay homage

to the FIFA FIFPRO Men's World 11.

Alphonso Davies.

In midfield Joshua Kimmich.

Robert Lewandowski.

The Best FIFA Men's Keeper,

Manuel Neuer.

The Best FIFA Men's Coach is …

Jürgen Klopp!

Jürgen Klopp?

Jürgen, your face says it all!

You're shocked!

Yes, like probably many others, I was

very surprised to hear my name tonight.

I really thought Hansi Flick would win,

after Bayern's unbelievable season.

Congrats, you deserve it.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, you deserve it.

Congratulations, happy birthday!

Thank you. My birthday is in August,

but thanks anyway.

Did you watch it on TV

or over the Internet?

Internet.

They didn't show it on TV.

- Well, they took their time.

It dragged on a bit.

But I didn't know until the very end.

Or that the president was going

to be there. Right, Mom,

I'm hanging up now.

- Yes. I love you. Get a good rest.

I'll phone again soon. Big kiss. Bye.

- And a big kiss from me. Bye.

But poor Hansi …

We won all the titles.

We only lost three games

over the entire season!

He's a great coach and a great guy.

I'm coming home!

What my parents did for me

is incredible.

When they came home from work

LESZNO, POLAND

they took me to practice,

which was an hours' drive

there and back.

Many other parents asked them,

"Why do you do it?"

They didn't do all that

so that I could become

a professional soccer player,

they just wanted me to be happy

with what I was doing.

My father was a gym teacher

and he helped me with everything.

At school we never played soccer,

which made me angry.

I asked my father, why not. He said

it's good to learn other sports too.

He taught me Judo too.

He was big and strong, but I threw him

on the floor when I was quite young.

That was the first time

he told me I was versatile enough

to start playing soccer.

Lewandowski!

The Master!

Bayern's history maker.

The absolute goal machine!

He lives to score goals.

He is made to score goals.

He is having the time of his life!

Five goals within nine minutes.

Robert Lewandowski …

My father watches me from above

when I go out on the field.

He still supports me, I'm certain of it.

MARCH 14, 2021

CLUB GROUNDS SÄBENER STRASSE

Short and snappy today?

Because of the weather.

- What do mean?

Somewhat chilly, isn't it?

Put on some warm clothes!

I just said what everyone was thinking.

You too?

- No, it's fine.

A second ago

you were all bitching about it.

Niki went to the limit in the course.

Everyone below me on the list

should be sold!

Where's Gnabry on this?

Yeah, I wasn't able to sprint.

Choupo is faster than me.

- Phonzy, dude, damn you.

NYON, SWITZERLAND - MARCH 19, 2021

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the

house of European football in Nyon

for the draw for the UEFA Champions

League quarterfinals and semifinals.

I welcome Sporting Director

Hasan Salihamidžić. - Thank you.

Man, I've been through

so many things.

I take it as it comes.

FC Bayern Munich.

Paris Saint-Germain.

We get Paris Saint-Germain.

That's last year's final.

Is it Paris?

PSG.

- PSG.

I know you're not excited.

Back to Paris!

I'm going back to P…

Hey, Brazzo!

- St. Germain Paris. - So, happy?

Paris is a good opponent.

Many viewers worldwide.

We can show what we're worth.

Good promotion for you. - Sure.

- But Dortmund in the semifinal …

At least there'll be a German coach

in the semifinal, Pep or Terzić!

It snowed all day yesterday,

but in two weeks it'll all be gone.

But for now it's still snowing.

Your Brazilian friends will be cold!

Sure, it's still snowing now!

Say hi from me!

- Müller says hi and good luck.

Exactly! A "bonjour".

- Tell him good luck back.

He sends his regards.

- Thanks!

Two cross from you.

- We'll see. Choupo!

Hello.

- Hello.

The guys will be pretty motivated,

but so are we. I'm looking forward

to the match and to meeting them again.

It's a crucial time for us.

The upcoming Champions League. Leipzig,

a decisive game in the German League.

"Do or die," as I always say.

This is it.

MARCH 22, 2021

INTERNATIONAL MATCH BREAK

Thomas, just put on the harness

like you normally do.

Go! Move forward.

Swing your arms, your arms …

PROF. DR. HOLGER BROICH

HEAD OF SCIENCE & FITNESS

Our practice schedule is so full

that I can't do any long-term work.

So I use this period

in between internationals

to have them focus on their strengths

and weaknesses. Last season was tough.

We had only 10 or 12 days off after the

Champions League. No time to process.

That's why it's so phenomenal

what the squad has achieved.

Hermann, I'll do that. Cut it out!

He wants to clear this mess away.

Thanks, Hermann!

It's hardest on the national players,

they have to get straight back to work.

It's always the same problem.

Joachim Löw will end

his career as national coach after

the European Championship this summer.

That will give us plenty of time

to find the best solution

for the time thereafter.

Hansi Flick could be a candidate.

And Hansi Flick has often gotten out

of running contracts.

Flick knows the whole team.

He'd be a marvelous solution.

The best thing of all is …

I bet, we'll be able to speculate

about this repeatedly and intensively.

I think they'll keep running with this.

It's the best that could've happened

to them. Well, that's the way it is.

Robert Lewandowski was tackled so hard

in the game against Andorra

that we suspect he's got

an inner ligament injury.

So today we'll check and see

for how long he'll have to be sidelined.

I'll hold the knee like this,

and test it in this position

to check its stability.

That's okay.

We've had these X-rays interpreted

by several other people too,

and they all agree

that it's a hairline crack.

So the knee needs to rest.

We discussed this yesterday

and decided that you

will need three to four weeks

before you can start playing again.

- Three to four weeks?

So definitely at least three weeks?

What's today's date?

Two Champions League matches,

three National League matches … Yeah?

But we shouldn't just

close our eyes and hope for the best,

because it's a big risk for you.

And in the long run it could backfire.

The knee has to be healthy and stable.

We want an initial period of rest

and then you can start some training.

Carrying on like this would be risky

for the cruciate ligament and the knee.

So that means, from here …

one, two …

That's basically the whole … of April.

Lewi …

C'est la vie, yeah?

Let's set everything up,

and then we'll have a look

at Leipzig.

Now that we're up against Leipzig

it's a real shame that Lewi's sidelined.

It'll be a variable game.

We'll need some new solutions to win it.

We know it won't be easy, so we'll have

to work even more closely as a team.

A full house today.

If they attack early on,

in a 4-2-3-1 they'll pass the ball

to the side. But against us

they'll know

their players won't be good enough.

And they're worn out

from their national-team matches.

We have to instruct our guys

what to do with the ball,

where to position themselves,

and to recognize

the situations where Leipzig

always allow scoring chances,

and when their positional play is off.

Of course it's bitter

when our top striker

of 35 goals in 28 games is sidelined.

It'd be bitter for any team.

But we still want

and need to play our own game.

Let's hope Choupo

can fill the void left by Lewi.

Hello, everyone.

April's starting out with a top match.

FC Bayern's visiting RB Leipzig.

#1 versus #2.

Now please fasten your seatbelts.

This is the final sprint

to the finish of the National League

and the Champions League,

and every player knows

that in these few weeks

many things will be decided.

Being there at the right moment

is one of our players' qualities.

Knowing what's at stake.

Have a great and successful game.

- Thanks.

RB LEIPZIG VS. FC BAYERN - APRIL 3, 2021

Go out there and find the spirit!

Niceties can wait till after the game.

Go for it, 90 or 95 minutes.

This is all about winning the League.

Nothing else matters. Good luck!

In an empty stadium you can hear

what's happening on the field.

I think you can hear when Bayern Munich

is on the ball and when not.

I expect a team to support each other

and to coach each other.

Welcome to this top match:

RB Leipzig, number 2 in the League,

against Bayern Munich, number 1.

Come on, Choupo!

Well done, Choupo!

Come on, man!

Damn it, losing the ball so easily!

Thomas, be more confident!

A great tackle by Thomas Müller.

Come on, Thomas!

- Go on!

Power play by the

German record champions.

Thomas Müller enters the box.

Goal!

1-0 for Bayern!

Great countermovement.

The back space is occupied.

A perfect goal.

You know, Choupo's doing a great job,

even when he's not on the ball.

It's like there are three of us

on position 10, so we keep having to …

This guy is going,

and you stay behind him.

Just block him, okay?

Come on, guys!

Bayern are in the lead after 45 minutes.

What's he whistling for?

This isn't chess!

A three-man wall.

- Let's go for it.

One more corner.

Five and a half minutes

left on the clock, plus extra-time.

The final minutes …

Another corner …

What's the referee doing?

FC Bayern wins this top match

on day 27 of the German League

1-0 against RB Leipzig.

All national players get two days off.

The others practice tomorrow. Choupo,

you need some rest.

- Choupo, man, you gave everything.

But stay in Munich, okay?

If you've been

in this business as long as I have,

you know things,

you sense and even smell things.

But as a journalist I have to do my job.

So Lothar, you want to give it a try?

Hansi, as you will have overheard,

I'm supposed to ask you again

what your plans are

once the season is over.

Once the season is over

I'll be going on holiday.

And I've said all there is to say about

what happens then. You know me, Lothar,

and I don't know why you let yourself

be coaxed to ask again, but okay.

The Bayern fans want to know

if they can count on you next year.

They hope you'll stay. - I get that,

but I said all there is to say.

It's always the same!

- They're just doing their job.

I remember at first, 2006, 2008, 2010,

he never wanted

to attend press conferences.

He preferred to be

the silent worker in the background.

Media work was a burden to him.

Maybe he is secretly pondering

where to go from here.

TEGERNSEE (LAKE)

ULI HOENESS

HONORARY PRESIDEN

I think

people carry FC Bayern in their heart.

Even though I'm no longer involved

in the business operations,

I catch myself talking about FC Bayern

in every other conversation anyway.

When I joined Bayern in the seventies,

the locker room was a wood cabin.

Grandpa Remm was already past 70.

He did the laundry

and polished our shoes.

That was it.

Sometimes I took my boots home with me

to give them a special polish myself.

These were the things that shaped us.

When I was young

I wore shin guards during training

but not during league matches.

When it was Old versus Young,

you'd best not outrun

"Bulle" Roth twice, because

he'd throw you on the cinder court!

FRANZ "BULLE" ROTH

PLAYER 1966-1978

Uli Hoeneß and Paul Breitner

came to Bayern from the National

Youth Team, oozing self-confidence,

saying, "We're going to

shake things up at Bayern Munich!"

But we didn't take it lying down.

Even back then it was clear that Uli

was a doer. He usually got his way,

and he wanted to make a difference.

Breitner sees Hoeneß.

He outruns his markers and hits the ball

right through the goalkeeper's legs.

The highest trophy

is now in the possession

of FC Bayern from Munich.

FC Bayern Munich wins the European Cup

for the third time in a row!

Madness!

Winning the World Championship

in 1974 created a soccer boom here

in Germany, and suddenly soccer became

politically

and economically interesting.

Uli Hoeneß always had

a keen eye for business,

and he recognized

soccer's economic potential.

Uli Hoeneß knew his market value and

he knew exactly how to profit from it.

He did autograph sessions for money,

wrote sports books.

He knew many clever ways

to increase his earnings.

Shortly before the World Championship

in 1974 I got an offer

from a small publisher

who wanted to publish

a World Championship book.

The copies were numbered

and personally signed

by Paul Breitner and myself.

I remember

our first training camp at Hotel

Bachmair on the banks of Tegernsee.

We were lying in our beds watching TV,

and he had this big wooden box

in front of him,

containing 1,000 sheets of paper

that he was signing.

I said, "What a bummer, so much work!"

But he said, "Never mind,

it's one Deutsche Mark per autograph."

I signed the 100,000 sheets of paper,

and then the World Championship began.

We became world champions!

Nobody had expected us to win.

Suddenly the demand for this book

was so enormous

that the publisher decided to print

another 200,000 copies!

I earned more from this book

than from soccer.

After the 1974 World Championship

advertising on jerseys and boards

was approved in German soccer.

FC Bayern chose Adidas

as their first jersey sponsor.

But to increase the club's revenue,

Uli Hoeneß landed Bayern's first sponsor

outside the sports world.

Now it said "Magirus Deutz" on their

shirts. Hoeneß had negotiated that deal.

It's said the deal was closed in a bar,

on a beer coaster. It got Bayern their

first sponsor outside the sports world.

It shows you how much

he looked towards the future

at a time

when he was still an active player.

Uli Hoeneß was really the first and only

player-manager who's ever been around,

as compared to

the player-coaches of other teams.

MAY 28, 1975 - EUROPEAN CUP

LEEDS UNITED VS. FC BAYERN

Uli Hoeneß seems to be hurt.

His right knee is being treated.

And Uli Hoeneß is down,

grabbing his knee again.

When I was 27 years old,

President Neudecker asked me if I could

imagine becoming manager at FC Bayern.

I said I'd let him know the next day,

and talked to some doctors all night.

They knew my knee, and they all told me

it wouldn't hold out much longer.

I'd prepared myself for this for years.

At the time Robert Schwan

was Bayern's manager,

and I'd been looking over his shoulder.

I knew that I didn't want

to become coach one day, but manager.

And that's how Uli Hoeneß the player

became Uli Hoeneß the manager.

His time as a professional player

gave him a certain feel for the job.

He knew what a squad needed

and what it could maybe do without.

When he took over

he expanded the medical team

with Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt.

Based on his own injury experience

he engaged a rehab coach,

and he reduced the number of friendlies,

which had put a strain on the players.

When I joined FC Bayern we had a masseur

who massaged us with soap,

and that was the entire medical team.

It's an anti-gravity treadmill.

We reduce his body weight to 70 percent

to take the load off his injured foot,

so he can run without hindrance.

I've never been to the Moon, but …

Since Hoeneß's early days

FC Bayern's medical department

has changed radically.

Nowadays parts of it

look like NASA's control center.

The squad won't do much today.

Two days after the game,

one day before the game.

Yesterday's training was a good boost.

We call it a "digital twin".

The more information we have,

the more we can respond to the needs

of the individual player.

We need the data to analyze the training

and to regulate it for a few days.

Then there's also a scientific team

of nearly 40 people,

consisting of performance physiologists,

but also physicists and mathematicians.

But we don't want

the players to get the feeling

they're in an experimental laboratory

or being treated as guinea pigs.

And extend, extend …

Feel it here.

You're doing too much here.

Lewi started training again yesterday.

This week we'll do a lot of

strength training to stabilize his knee.

Then we'll have to see, day by day,

and take small steps.

We want him to rejoin the squad

as quickly as possible, in good health.

He has all the right preconditions.

He's gained lots of muscle mass

in a very short time.

He's set himself a clear goal.

He knows he'll be back in the game

in two or three weeks.

I hope I can still play a few

Champions League matches this season.

But to miss

the quarter final against PSG …

It's much tougher to be injured now

than at the beginning of the season,

with the big matches still ahead of you.

- And plenty of time to come back.

Now you keep thinking about the European

Championship and the Champions League.

The pressure's rising.

This is my second day

and I've already had enough.

We just have to wear the right things.

Shoes, socks …

- Got any rings, jewelry, piercings?

No, that's okay. Say ah! No piercings.

- No.

ACCESS ONLY WITH TRAINED PERSONNEL

OR WITH HOLGER BROICH

Two minutes, 20 seconds.

A hunter goes into a hunting store

to buy binoculars. He asks the salesman,

"Which are your best binoculars?"

The man hands him a great pair

and says, "Try it out. Best go outside

and look down from the balcony."

So he starts looking around and he spots

a man and a woman far away who are …

doing the dirty. And he says, "The house

over there, isn't that yours?"

So the salesman says, "Oh, right."

Damn! I forgot the punchline.

A minute and a half!

Sissies. I've been in there many times.

If you go for it …

It's not cozy, but …

15 seconds!

Right, come out!

That's no fun.

I'd like to welcome

CEO Oliver Kahn to the studio.

It's nice to have you here

at the FC Bayern Fan Workshop.

Things have changed.

The club has grown in the last years,

OLIVER KAHN - CEO

and all the European top clubs

develop themselves more and more.

And to prepare the club

for all the upcoming challenges,

we started the AHEAD process.

Over the last decades

FC Bayern has grown

into a world-wide brand.

And it's been my job to strengthen

the brand's position all over the world.

I love FC Bayern!

- I'm an FC Bayern Club member.

I still remember the moment

I sat in the Allianz Arena.

Without FC Bayern

it'd feel like an important

family member was missing.

We have 4,500 fan clubs,

700 of them outside Germany.

There's no other sport club

with these kinds of numbers.

And that's the reason why we also have

a subsidiary in Shanghai, China,

and one in New York, because we want

to be very close to our fans.

It makes you feel

like you're part of something big.

Last year

I had a video call with Thomas Müller.

This is one of the best things

that could ever happen in my life.

Basically,

this process that we've just started

is about

looking for improvement potential

and opening a dialogue with our fans.

To find out how they perceive the club,

today, but also in the future.

Bundesliga first. We don't want a "World

League" or "European Superleague".

A common opinion was, perhaps,

better promotion of the women's side.

Cosmopolitan yet Bavarian, traveling

the world, but at home in Bavaria.

Of course FC Bayern has to grow

as a business in the future,

but it also has to remain a soccer club.

And that is really the major challenge

that we have to face every year.

Morning.

Some want everything to be

the way it was 40 years ago,

while others long for

an FC Bayern Corporation of the future.

So you have to navigate

between these conflicting priorities.

You have to justify everything you do.

Some say, "We only want

German business partners." Seriously?

You know, that kind of friction.

You have to make sure

it doesn't get ripped apart.

Things will get harder and harder

for traditional clubs.

But I think …

the fans have the best feel

for the club.

They always have.

Without fans

there's no reason for us to play soccer.

Everything we do,

we do just for the fans.

The motivation

for our daily toil and our hard work

is to make them happy, those people

who love the club and feel close to it.

I remember when Uli Hoeneß joined us,

we had a few tough years behind us.

Franz Beckenbauer left us in 1977

to join the New York Cosmos.

With him, FC Bayern

didn't just lose its best player,

but also a bit of its image.

ADVANCE SALE

85 percent of our revenue

came from the spectators,

from the Olympic Stadium.

At times there were only

10,000 to 14,000 spectators.

The stadiums were almost empty and

male dominated, there was much violence.

Back then Bayern had a turnover

of 12 million German Marks,

and a debt of 7 million German Marks.

I think, to Uli this club, FC Bayern,

is a matter of the heart.

It hurts him physically

if things don't go well.

I think it actually hurts him.

So there's no kind of distance.

And I think that defines him.

The first thing he did was go

to America to check things out,

because he had seen that American clubs

in the NFL and the NBA

were marketed way better

than German soccer clubs.

I swore to myself

to make FC Bayern more independent

from spectator revenues. Not from the

fans, they're vital. From the revenues.

We had to improve our marketing,

merchandising and our TV revenues.

He's a brilliant salesman,

but he's also a soccer expert,

and that combination

was priceless for Bayern at the time.

Uli always tells the story

about how he sold Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

to put the club in the black again.

I was sold for about 11 million

to Inter Milan, which was the

second highest transfer fee at the time.

Whether it was the best deal of all,

I don't know, but it was a vital deal.

Now we were four million in the black

and we bought Lothar Matthäus for two.

Goal by new acquisition Lothar Matthäus.

You could've gotten five Lothars

for the money Karl-Heinz brought in.

We put the remaining millions

in a fixed-term deposit account,

and FC Bayern

has been free of debt ever since.

When Uli started we had 20 employees.

Nowadays it's in the region of 1,000.

Every match is sold out, and

the revenues are on a different scale.

Things have changed a lot.

When my wife and I were in San Francisco

and saw all these men in blue suits

buying fan merchandise for their kids,

I said to my wife,

"If we get people to do that in Bayern,

we've made it." And here we are.

Uli Hoeneß understood very early on

that this game is about entertainment,

and also about telling stories,

about enthralling and exciting people,

giving people something to argue about.

He's one of the

most important people

who made FC Bayern what it is today.

That's my opinion, and that's how it is.

It's the same with the Allianz Arena.

Uli Hoeneß came to me

and said,

"We need money for a new stadium."

He wanted Adidas, where I was CEO,

to buy a share of 10 percent.

Everybody had huge stadiums,

and we had "Grünwalder Straße".

We were tenants

and dependent on certain things.

The first big step for us

was moving into the Olympic Stadium.

The second big step

was moving into the Allianz Arena.

It had been Uli Hoeneß's dream,

but the most important thing was

that we had found a home for our fans.

This stadium has been key

to our success over the past few years.

It has made FC Bayern what it is today.

Everything FC Bayern has here,

has been built by their own hands.

It's outrageous we're being criticized

for busting our asses all these years

and building this stadium!

He has always treated this club

as if it was his property, but it isn't.

He's a member, like so many others.

Right? And he was its manager and

president, but it's not his property.

But he led it as if it was his business,

with all his passion.

They can publish anything they want,

even if there's no truth to it!

This crappy atmosphere

is your doing, not ours!

He vented his feelings,

ranted, polarized,

and sometimes polemicized.

I'd love to have heard

your comments after that!

Depending on his mood,

he starts ranting when he is provoked,

and gives vent to everything he's

had to endure over the past few days.

But that's the way he is,

and people expect it of him nowadays.

Munich Regional Court II

has convicted the accused

in seven isolated cases of tax evasion

to a prison term of

three years and six months.

Nobody's perfect.

I've made many mistakes in my life too.

And if you've made a mistake,

you have to say you're sorry,

and you have to say it out loud.

My lawyers advised me

to appeal the verdict.

I discussed it with the entire family

by the Tegernsee until 3 a.m.,

and the next day I accepted the verdict.

I'm still convinced

it was the right thing to do.

It was the hardest time of my life.

He admitted everything he did

and he answered for it.

He served his prison sentence and …

he suffered badly from it.

NOVEMBER 25, 2016 - ANNUAL CLUB MEETING

I expected them to be angry too,

and disappointed.

When I came back I was really nervous.

I was going to let the atmosphere decide

whether I would run for re-election.

It was one of the hardest moments of

my life, going to that general meeting.

50 or 60 percent of the vote

would've meant

I was chosen out of habit.

I respect each and every one of you

who refuses to vote for me

because of my misconduct.

But I was re-elected with 98 percent

of the vote. I was bowled over.

THANKS ULI

YOU ARE THE BEST MAN

APRIL 6, 2021 - THE DAY BEFORE THE

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTERFINAL

Dembélé is way better than Mbappé.

What does "better" mean? Why "better"?

If I could dribble like Dembélé,

I'd be better too.

If I had to choose between Dembélé

and one of you, I'd choose one of you.

Some can do it, and some do it.

That's the whole difference.

You're so right, now leave!

- Thank you.

I can leave. I'll think about it.

This whole Dembélé discussion

pisses me off.

I'm not saying you're wrong.

I'm not saying you're wrong either,

but you don't see my point.

You're always making the same case.

If I send you a scene of his, you say,

"In five games!" Hello!

If he joins us, I'll go

and sit on the bench voluntarily.

With your salary

you won't be sitting anywhere.

Right, men. Quarterfinal. Paris.

So you know

what's expected of us, of you.

Never mind that some players have

been sidelined. That's the way it is.

Di María, Neymar and Mbappé

are all exceptional players.

Players who can turn a match around.

Like in this situation:

He always tends to go inside.

Pin him down by the sideline

so he can't turn.

We need you to move back immediately.

Don't lose a second,

get back on the defense.

Set up the defensive triangle and we're

safe again. We have the ability

to get where we want, the semifinals.

What's most important

is that we act together as a team

and seize our opportunities.

APRIL 7, 2021 - CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

QUARTERFINAL, FIRST LEG

Sometimes these defenders

behave like idiots round Neymar.

No!

He's not calling it.

Mbappé.

Doing it in one go,

that's hard. It's better to stop it,

take it with you, and sh**t.

We have to sh**t on goal.

He's no good, believe me.

Hi, Hansi. About the news that Jérôme

Boateng's contract won't be renewed …

Does the timing surprise you?

It's a bit unfortunate before the

match against Paris Saint-Germain.

I won't comment on that before the game,

nor after the game probably.

Everyone knows how I feel about Jérôme,

and everyone knows his qualities.

He's played a great season,

so for a coach and his team

it's great to have a player like him,

who is experienced and highly skilled.

But that's all I'm going to say

about it, so there's an end to it.

Ten years …

Not a bad stretch.

Eight league titles,

five German Cup titles,

the Club World Cup twice,

Champions League twice.

Yeah, the timing's a bit unfortunate,

and the way it was handled

could've been better,

but that's how it is.

Right, hold on!

Now I have to put some things right.

Here at Bayern all decisions are made

by the group, not one single person.

What's being spread now, that it was

me who no longer wanted him, is crap.

SPORTING DIRECTOR

I knew he wouldn't be playing that day.

I thought he ought to know the truth,

and I told him.

I've known Jérôme for ages.

I'm glad he was part of the Bayern

family, which he will always remain.

But I know he has two kids, a family,

he needs to make plans, so …

It was important to me

that he learned of it.

Champions League quarterfinal, first leg

in the Allianz Arena,

Bayern Munich

against Paris Saint-Germain.

Up front it's Kylian Mbappé,

Neymar, Ángel Di María …

But, really, the whole team is what

Bayern Munich have to focus on.