Okay, this year the Bayern fans weren't allowed to celebrate with the footballers. Therefore we remember earlier days of jubilation.
Today, dear Löwen fans, you should be stronger than ever before, because it's about FC Bayern. You don't necessarily have to throw a four-course barbecue for 17 people, as Bernhard Kronseder and Sebastian Held from the Moosinninger Löwen actually did. But maybe you can bear these few lines about how Bayern celebrate - and have always celebrated.
Dieter Brenninger, left wing of the promotion team from 1965, remembers the parade after the 8-0 victory at Tennis Borussia Berlin. “The people were standing right on the tarmac and basically picked us up.” The parade then led from the Riem airport directly to the club's restaurant. “And that was still the Nockherberg at the time,” says the Altenerdinger, who two years later won the first European Cup with the Reds (1-0 against Glasgow Rangers). "We then shaved Sepp Maier from head to toe and rubbed it with cologne". Everyone celebrated according to their type. Gerd Müller, for example, preferred to stay in the spa hotel: “I'm glad the fun is over. Now dua ma to Schafkopf. "
The corona-related quiet this year at the final tournament would have been too much even for the quiet Nördlinger. No fans in Lisbon, no anecdotes - that's why the fans enjoyed the game and thought of earlier stories. And it doesn't always have to be the European Cup.
Otto Simon, for example, drove with four other guys to the DFB Cup final in Frankfurt in 1984 - with an Opel that was once green but had been painted red and white by the D-youth kickers before the trip. “That was an ancient cart. The only new thing was the windshield wipers, ”says Simon. He has never forgotten the following scene: When the red and white rattle cart is on the road towards the Waldstadion, a good 250 cars lined up behind him. “We drove to the final in this honking convoy - and we were at the top.” Could that even be improved? Simon: "Well, there was a penalty shootout and Lothar Matthäus missed for Gladbach."
We should also talk about 2001, when the Bavarians landed in the Erdinger Moos with an Aero Lloyd plane. After the win against Valencia they are the kings of Europe, but at the airport FMG service man W. tells us where to go. When Ottmar Hitzfeld wanted to use the passenger stairs at the rear of the aircraft, he gave the order: “Please go S 'back and get off S' at the front!” The airport employee met loud protests with a friendly and determined response. Years later, the man confessed: “I had no idea who that was.” Probably Mr. W. was the only person at the airport who didn't know the Bayern coach. To save the man's honor: He also had to catch two women who were wearing nothing under two large wheat beer basins except a daring body painting.
And then there are all the stories from Wembley 2013. Such as the story of the six SG Reichenkirchen footballers who only celebrate Bayern's victory against Dortmund in London. 15 hours later they are on the pitch themselves and sweep away FC Hohenpolding 4-0. After the game, Jürgen Baumgartner said to the coach: “It went really well now. But of course I can't fly to London to prepare for every game. "
But maybe the Bavarians owed their victory at that time to the three-day pilgrimage from Wartenberg to Altötting, which the Bayern fan club Henaheisl carried out. One of the members is Christian Pröbst, meanwhile mayor of Wartenberg and of course still Bayern fan. With his brother Michael and his friends Markus Loibl and Michael Deimel, he celebrated victory in a hotel bar in London and they got to know the VfL Wolfsburg women's team - who could also win the Champions League on Sunday.
Franz Humpl, Oberdings Edelfan, was also in London at the time. He had also seen the defeats in Barcelona, Madrid and the Allianz Arena. He has his special theory as to why it didn't work out there: “So far we have always lost in stadiums that mostly had blue seats,” he told the local newspaper after the triumph in 2013. And that he was looking forward to Lisbon. At that time, however, he meant the final in 2014 ...
Six years later everything is different: no pilgrimages, no trips. One is happy in front of the television. Andreas Voglsammer, the professional footballer from Dorfen (“The most emotional thing for me was the win in the 911 against Valencia”) doesn't do it any differently. Except that he also talks shop with Patrick Weihrauch via Whatsapp. The two not only played together for Bielefeld, but also in the Bayern youth team.
As was Anderl Faltermaier, who was Dietmar Hamann's team-mate and who trained under Hermann Gerland. Whattsappen with Bayern colleagues? “I'm already too old to know who. They are all already retired ”, he says with a laugh and says that everyone is happy with the Bavarians on vacation in Italy. As an FCB fan you don't get that that often either. If the Azzurri think the reds are great, then the blues should give themselves a push too.
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