On the evening when his football team lost in the Champions League against the seventh-placed team in the Spanish league, Oliver Kahn, CEO of FC Bayern München AG, had a feeling: I have to do something!

So he later decided to visit a holy place on the Easter weekend.

He inaugurated Julian Nagelsmann, the team's coach.

Then he went into the room in which, as people murmur, small and large miracles have already happened.

Christopher Meltzer

Sports correspondent in Munich.

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On Holy Saturday, Kahn stood in the team locker room in Munich and spoke out loud to his players for five minutes.

On Easter Sunday, Kahn sat in the stadium in Bielefeld and quietly watched his players for 90 minutes.

He saw what he wanted to see: a Bayern victory in the Bundesliga.

And so this Easter weekend also told the story of a man who wanted to be quieter in his first nine and a half months at the top of the most important German sports club - and has accepted at the latest since the end of the Champions League that he should be louder.

It's Wednesday on Säbener Strasse in Munich.

A conference room on the first floor.

Oliver Kahn, 52, is sitting on the chair in front of the window and explains why he went into the dressing room after the quarter-final against Villarreal.

"I think I have a good sense of when I can make a difference and when others can or should make a difference," he says.

What about that feeling in the fall?

When the vaccination discussion around Joshua Kimmich and the annual general meeting around Qatar Airways escalated?

“I wanted to take it a bit more calmly and calmly in the media,” says Kahn.

He considers these qualities of a modern manager.

But the critics heard at the time that the coach gave most of the answers.

And ignored the fact that the trainer also got the most questions in his constant mandatory press conferences.

Julian Nagelsmann communicated the club through the crises with his self-confident manner.

The critics asked: Why doesn't Kahn say something else?

And Kahn asked himself: Why should I say anything else?

At a normal Bundesliga location, that would probably have been something for the floor radio.

One is FC Bayern, where up to the "13 Höslwanger" everyone wants to get their two cents through, but not: normal.

We need to get more creative!

Now, in April 2022, the next month of the corona pandemic, the next month of the Ukraine war, the month of the Villarreal games, more than just the “13 Höslwangers” are looking at Oliver Kahn, the titan they idolized as a goalkeeper.

From him, who now wants to say more, you expect no small or no big miracle, but an initial answer to the crucial question of the present: What kind of football club can and does FC Bayern actually want to be in the future?