"Mia san in the clinch" instead of "Mia san Mia": The Qatar sponsorship caused trouble at the annual general meeting of FC Bayern.
What do fans from the Munich district say about it?
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- FC Bayern’s “Qatar Airways” sponsorship has come under massive criticism.
At the annual general meeting on Thursday, the fans vented their anger about it, they clashed with the president and board of directors.
But what do football officials from the district say about the Qatar cause?
Bayern fans in the district have different points of view on the dispute.
There is only agreement on the assessment of Qatar.
"It's crazy what's going on," says coaching legend Toni Plattner, who is known throughout the district as an ardent fan of FC Bayern.
Basically he understands the criticism of parts of the fans of the Qatar sponsor, but Plattner also classifies this: "Of course they disregard all human rights there, but we have enough problems in our own country." The young people in the club also have the right to give her opinion, “but I'm more on the neutral side”.
"The whole of great football is not covered in fame at the moment"
This is what the SV Dornach coach has in common with the Heimstetten regional league coach Christoph Schmitt. He's also a Bayern fan, has a lot on his mind at the moment and is following the Qatar discussions on the sidelines. That is why Schmitt does not want to say anything more about the fan discussions at Bavaria. "The whole of great football is currently not covered in fame," emphasizes Schmitt and is also thinking about the awarding of the football World Cup to Qatar.
Uwe Cygan, President of VfR Garching, sees the escalation of the Bayern assembly as a sign that people are becoming increasingly thin-skinned in these times. Basically, he considers it much more serious that amateurs are only allowed to train with 2Gplus, while professionals with a salary of 20 million are allowed to kick football without vaccination. He also has a clear solution for the Bayern discussion: "If we win the Champions League, everything will be fine again."
Emanuel Eisenreich is the president of FC Ismaning and a fan of TSV 1860. “I don't care for glee,” says Eisenreich, who is used to turbulent gatherings from his heart club.
He's staying out of the current discussion.
“I have enough to do with the children's training program at FC Ismaning and our family-run company and no time for sponsoring FC Bayern,” says the senior official at FC Ismaning.
That's why he didn't really deal with FC Bayern's internal problems yesterday either.
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