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It's a winter break that doesn't really deserve the term.
After winning the top game and regaining the lead in the standings, the FC Bayern players only have a 15-day break until they start the new year against Mainz on January 3rd.
Everyone in the club has a lot to deal with.
A lot of positive things: The team got the maximum out of the championship, cup and Champions League triple last season.
After a short summer break, the team built on their successes.
Bavaria’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Source: dpa / Robert Michael
“We played an amazing year.
There is no other team that has played so many games at this level.
The game in Leverkusen was proof for me that the will and the character are extraordinary.
The year started well and it had to end well, ”said Bavaria’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on the show“ Doppelpass ”on Sport 1. And if Rummenigge goes, the coming year will be just as successful:“ I hate the sentence: Me doesn't have to prove anything anymore.
Every day I have to go to the office and show it to everyone again - even after this glorious year.
It's all in us. "
"The Bundesliga is the benchmark in Europe"
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For the 65-year-old, it is not a matter of course that Bayern go into the short break as championship leaders.
The competition has caught up in recent years.
“The benchmark in Europe is currently the Bundesliga.
The games in Germany are currently the best in the world, not in Serie A and not in the Premier League.
The Bundesliga simply works well.
The Bundesliga will benefit from this in the long term, ”said Rummenigge.
It is not without reason that Manuel Neuer was named the best goalkeeper and Robert Lewandowski as the best player in the world.
This is not only an appreciation for the Munich team, but also for the entire league.
"In addition to the best goalkeeper and the best player in the world, we also have a couple of mentality monsters in the team who are just as important," said Rummenigge.
But of course Lewandowski plays an extremely important role for Bayern.
Rummenigge trusts the striker to break Gerd Müller's magical record this season, who scored 40 goals in the 1971/72 season.
Who else?
Bayern's Robert Lewandowski single-handedly decides the top game in Leverkusen with a double
Source: dpa / Bernd Thissen
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“I always thought that Gerd Müller's record would never be jeopardized, but Robert Lewandowski already has 17 goals under his belt.
That is possible, ”said Rummenigge.
He doesn't know any player who works more focused on his success than Lewandowski: “He has the quality to decide games on his own.
He understood that we would not hand him over, no matter which club asks.
We have always correctly assessed its worth.
It is our reassurance that we will also win titles. "
Even if Rummenigge leaves Bayern.
“I've always been a friend of the fact that one does not consider oneself irreplaceable.
I had the best time on the pitch.
I don't know what I'll do on January 1st, 2022.
I still don't know whether I'll be doing anything at all, ”said Rummenigge.
Oliver Kahn will then take over his office.
"Kahn is predestined for the job and has the soccer know-how," said Rummenigge.
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