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FC Bayern Munich after the DFB-Pokal-Aus at Borussia Mönchengladbach: FC Hollywood

2021-10-30T06:44:32.834Z


For the first time this season, FC Bayern got into turmoil and the coach cannot intervene. In an Amazon documentary, on the other hand, everyday life at the club is polished to a shine. Lousy timing.


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Bayern board member Oliver Kahn in a scene in the new Amazon documentary

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Everything is fine at FC Bayern.

The players flatter one another, they are like little boys, the board is meanwhile planning with a serious face, aware of its responsibility, already the successes of the next ten years, but in between, Oliver Kahn and Hasan Salihamidzic also hit a few golf balls in a relaxed manner.

Even if Salihamidzic's ball lands in the water.

It's the world in the Amazon documentary "FC Bayern - Behind the Legend".

In one scene, Uli Hoeneß, the patriarch, stands in a picturesque mountain landscape, nature spreads out at his feet, and he says: "You have FC Bayern in your heart."

One can assume that those responsible for Bavaria will be very satisfied with this documentation.

Not only is it an ideal world, but it is very much an ideal world.

And again and again the leitmotif is the family.

The Bayern family.

A series that is grouped into the series of soccer documentaries that the streaming services have been offering for some time and in which the boundaries of PR are sometimes blurred, sometimes crossed.

The keyhole perspectives promise, but above all they produce beautiful pictures.

A club, or rather a football group, where one wheel meshes with the other, highly professional, highly concentrated, always striving.

On, on and on.

That is the image that the club radiates when it lets itself take a look behind the scenes in moderation.

And all of that in high gloss.

To see on Amazon Prime from Tuesday.

One can say: the timing can be improved.

On Monday, Kahn, Salihamidzic and Co. walked the red carpet when the documentary celebrated its preview in a Munich cinema.

Two days later, the rug was pulled from under the feet of the team in the DFB Cup.

After the 0: 5 at Borussia Mönchengladbach, the record champions are in turbulence for the first time this season, and it would probably be really interesting to be there with the camera as an eye and ear witness, "behind the legend".

The discussions about Joshua Kimmich's vaccination status, Lucas Hernández's freedom status and Julian Nagelsmann's health status create a much less beautiful backdrop than the mountain panorama behind Hoeneß.

Just a slip up?

One week was enough to upset the ideal Munich world.

And whether the fans can watch the documentary in the coming week in serenity or not, that also largely depends on the task at this weekend: After the cup, FC Bayern returns to the previously so successful league operation, but the strong at home Opponent 1. FC Union Berlin (kick-off Saturday 3.30 p.m. live ticker SPIEGEL) is anything but a guarantee that it will also go back to the comfort zone.

A victory at Union, and you could classify the historic cup failure in Munich as a slip-up.

Otherwise, however, there is a risk of interpreting the defeat on Wednesday as a sign that this is about deeper things.

The "FAZ" asked after the Gladbach game: "Is there anything more broken at Bayern?"

That there has been speculation for days about how the fact that Joshua Kimmich is one of allegedly five unvaccinated Bayern professionals could get to the "Bild" newspaper, who put this message into the newspaper and what motives can do that do not suit the club.

"Restlessness is never good"

In the documentary, the team actually jokes and teases all the time, it's about shampoo and personal hygiene, about who is where in the team's speed ranking.

Funny, funny, Radio Müller on all channels.

However, all these nice anecdotal images, underlaid with elegiac music, are thwarted if there was someone around the team who passed on information to the media with such explosive power as the Kimmich story.

"Restlessness is never good," says Julian Nagelsmann.

The coach's absence due to his corona isolation has been a big topic since Wednesday, even if he said in front of the press on Friday, "we wouldn't have won the game with me either".

Against Union he will still be missing on the sidelines, assistant Dino Toppmöller will replace him again, and Nagelsmann himself says that this will change things: »There is a clear division of roles, I am the head coach, the assistant cannot then Suddenly putting on a show in front of the team for two weeks «.

His influence as a trainer via video address is reaching its limits: "Every teacher in the pandemic can confirm that it is different than when you stand in front of the class." It's about "presence, it's about addressing", all that will still be the case on Saturday at the Alte Försterei.

Nagelsmann leaves a gap, and that does not show in home games against Hoffenheim, it shows in games like on Wednesday.

The role of the head coach

Ultimately, that speaks for him - and for the important function the head coach himself has in a star ensemble that has actually seen and played everything.

And of which one could believe that they no longer need this form of personal address.

Nagelsmann says Wednesday showed “that we are humans and not machines”, but he still assumes that Mönchengladbach's game has “something unique” and was even slightly philosophical: “Life sometimes throws stones, some are more difficult , some easier, Wednesday's was a rock «.

The next tough thing awaits on Saturday.

A defeat at Union, which has not lost in the past 21 home games - and FC Bayern would be FC Hollywood again.

From now on, not only to be marveled at on Amazon, but also in reality.

Source: spiegel

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