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Mark van Bommel played for FC Bayern from 2006 to 2011.
The Dutchman led the Munich team as captain to two championships.
As an “aggressive leader”, the 43-year-old set the pace on and off the pitch.
He was anything but squeamish on the lawn.
In his career he received 13 dismissals.
In the football podcast “Phrasenmower” he spoke in detail about his time at Bayern and the many red cards: “I wanted to hide most of all after red cards.” Van Bommel also spoke openly about the 2008/09 season under coach Jürgen Klinsmann, who was dismissed from Bayern before the end of the season.
Jupp Heynckes saved the season as a firefighter with four wins, one draw and qualification for the Champions League.
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“We didn't have a good agreement and the team needed a real coach who would dictate what has to happen, what is going on and what can happen.
And that was not the case with Klinsmann and we actually lost a season ”, said van Bommel in the“ phrase mower ”.
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When did it become clear that Klinsmann would not work?
Van Bommel: “At the end of the preparation!” Inquiry: So it was already clear before the start of the season that Klinsmann would not work?
The short and clear answer: "Yes!"
Van Bommel revealed that Bayern bosses Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeneß had and still have a similar assessment: “That was not a good season and in retrospect it was perhaps a wrong decision to hire Klinsmann.
I also believe that Uli and Kalle have the same opinion that it wasn't a good thing.
Sometimes you have a team that has to be managed really well ... "
“We had no idea.
That's why it was so difficult "
Van Bommel then tried to help his coach Klinsmann.
"I was with the coach in the dressing room and said: 'If we keep playing like this, it's just luck and chance if we win games.'" Because, in his opinion, Bayern always had a problem when it came to the game did not go so smoothly: “But if you then know what to do - the basis, what you always do, those are the agreements, the principles - if you carry them out, you can still win.
But we didn't have any principles.
We had no idea.
That's why it was so difficult.
That's why we won two or three games and then we lost two again.
So out of nowhere.
So if it worked, it was good.
And if it didn't work out, we had to be lucky or lucky to win.
I felt that at the beginning and I told the coach that too.
I said, 'Coach, we have to have a plan.
We're fit, but we also have to have a plan! '"
Van Bommel tried to influence Klinsmann
Source: pa / Sven Simon / Hoermann / SVEN SIMON
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And what did Klinsmann say then?
“He said: 'Yes, Mark, we have to be fit and then we can beat anyone.
That'll come again later, the tactical ... "
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