Berlin: Bayern Munich are expecting to attract around 25,000 fans to watch their newly-appointed coach Pep Guardiola's first two training sessions at the club.
Bayern, who completed the treble in 2012-13 by winning the Champions League, Budesliga title and German Cup, switched from their usual Saebener Strasse training complex to Allianz Arena to allow more fans to watch the former Barcelona coach in action for the first time.
Guardiola is believed to address media as Bayern's head coach next Monday, before overseeing his first two training sessions the following Wednesday and Thursday.
The club is charging adults five euros, while children under 14 can watch for free....
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05:36 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Paris: French footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema go on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of paying for sex with a teenage call girl. Bayern Munich winger Ribery and Real Madrid striker Benzema have been under investigation in their home country for more than two years on allegations of paying Zahia Dehar, then a minor, for sex in 2008 and 2009. None of them are expected to appear at...
05:02 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny had already fuelled speculations on his future with Gunners and it seems Bayern Munich and Barcelona are interested in buying the French defender. The 15million-rated Frenchman had joined Gunners 8.5m from Lorient three years ago and has has four years left on his contract at the Emirates. But the 27-year-old had claimed that he could walk away if the Gunners fail to show ambition in the...
02:35 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Robert Lewandowski has been the talk of the town after a stunning season with Borussia Dortmund. Almost all of Europe's finest clubs are giving it their all in order to sign the 24-year-old striker. According to a report in The Sun, the Polish striker has apparently decided to brush off any interest in giants Manchester United and Chelsea. Lewandowski, who is supposed to marry this week has told Dortmund that...
09:10 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Munich: Jupp Heynckes has ruled out coaching again and says he's had a worthy farewell with an unprecedented treble for a German club with Bayern Munich, including the Champions League trophy. After Bayern completed the treble earlier this month, Heynckes left his future open, saying he was taking time off. But now he's told Spiegel news magazine he was through. "I can assure you that I'm not going to coach...
06:50 PM, Jun 16, 2013
According to reports in media, Manchester United have boosted their chances to sign the Polish striker, after Borussia Dortmund chief said in a statement that Lewandowski won't be going to Bayern Munich this year. However, Dortmund chief executive officer Hans-Joachim Watzke didn't rule out selling Robert Lewandowski this summer. Watzke insisted he won't be sold to Bayern Munich, so leaving the door open to Manchester United. "I am not saying...
11:36 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Berlin: Borussia Dortmund's prized striker Robert Lewandowski will not be making his anticipated move to Champions League winners and Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich in this transfer window, the club's CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke said on Monday. Bayern, who completed a treble-winning season earlier this month, were fully expected to poach Lewandowski from the Champions League runners-up after they already persuaded talented Dortmund midfielder Mario Goetze to join them for next season....
12:42 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Berlin: In his last game as coach before handing the reins to Pep Guardiola, Jupp Heynckes led Bayern Munich to their first treble by beating Stuttgart 3-2 in the German Cup final on Saturday. It sealed Bayern's best ever season, one week after Heynckes delivered the Champions League trophy by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in London, and eight after he masterminded the fastest Bundesliga title in 50 years of the...
08:44 AM, Jun 02, 2013
Warsaw: Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski is likely to join German rivals and newly-crowned Champions League winners Bayern Munich, the Pole's agent said on Monday. However, Cezary Kucharski told Polish local news channel TVN24 that Bayern had yet to agree terms for Dortmund's top-scorer. "For us it is clear, but we have not signed anything," Kucharski said. "The clubs need to reach an agreement." Kucharski gave no further details, but...
03:27 PM, May 27, 2013
Frankfurt: With Bayern Munich capturing the Champions League trophy over another Bundesliga club in a pulsating final, Germany's next ambition on the international football stage is to win the World Cup. Bayern's fifth triumph had been 12 years in the waiting; Germany's last World Cup title was in 1990. Their last major title also came in Wembley, when they won the European Championship in 1996. Germany's football has dramatically changed...
09:15 PM, May 26, 2013
London: Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp is such a bouncy character that not even a Champions League final defeat can really get him down, but the decision not to send off Bayern Munich defender Dante in Saturday's 2-1 defeat did rankle. Dante was already on a yellow card when he kneed the impressive Marco Reus in the chest to concede an obvious penalty but Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli did not...
10:54 AM, May 26, 2013
London: Bayern Munich's shock 2012 Champions League defeat in Munich was a dark chapter in the club's history but it sowed the seeds for their fifth European triumph at Wembley stadium on Saturday. Bayern grabbed a dramatic 2-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund with an 89th-minute winner from Dutchman Arjen Robben to clinch their first European Cup since 2001 after losing both the 2010 and 2012 finals. It could not have...
10:38 AM, May 26, 2013
London: Borussia Dortmund's pain of losing the Champions League final 2-1 to bitter rivals Bayern Munich is acerbated by the knowledge they may never have a better chance to win the trophy again. Arjen Robben's 89th-minute winner limited Dortmund's opportunities to respond, but there is a sense Dortmund's opportunities of playing another final is limited, too, as the team faces the prospect of losing its best players. Mario Goetze has...
10:23 AM, May 26, 2013
London: Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski could soon join German rivals and newly-crowned Champions League winners Bayern Munich, Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes hinted on Saturday. Dortmund top-scorer Lewandowski, who notched 12 goals in the Champions League this season, has already said he will not extend his contract that runs to 2014 with reports linking him with a move to Bayern. "We all know that [Mario] Goetze has already been signed...
09:59 AM, May 26, 2013
London: Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes's career looked over a few years ago but the 68-year-old veteran capped a third spell at the Bavarians on Saturday by becoming only the fourth manager to win the European Cup with two different teams. Heynckes joined Ernst Happel, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jose Mourinho with two Champions League trophies from two clubs after Bayern beat German rivals Borussia Dortmund 2-1 to add to his...
08:34 AM, May 26, 2013
London: Bayern Munich are trying to downplay being the favourites, while Borussia Dortmund are eager to play up their chances to pull off the upset. Even before the start of Saturday's Champions League final, the German rivals are at odds in their approach to the biggest game in club soccer. Bayern are approaching their third final in four years with the self-assured calm of a team in control after a...
10:04 AM, May 25, 2013
London: Bayern Munich are unfazed by the need to be more clinical in attack against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday and avoid another Champions League final defeat having lost the showpiece match twice in the past three years. Midfielder Thomas Mueller, who at 23 will be in his third final after losing in 2010 and 2012, said his team mates were not panicking because experience had taught them the key to...
08:53 AM, May 25, 2013
Paris: The big surprise about the Champions League final on Saturday isn't the teams - Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, both superb. It's that it took so long for such an all-German contest to materialise. With the largest economy and population in Europe, modern stadiums heaving with fans, financial backing from industrial giants, an impressively run league with a fat balance sheet and mostly profitable clubs and a web of...
10:25 AM, May 24, 2013
London: Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich are bitter rivals, yet in tactical terms they offer variations on the same theme. Both press their opponents high up the pitch, can move the ball from defence to attack with bewildering speed and play with a 4-2-3-1 formation featuring wide players on each flank and a lone striker. Dortmund, however, are more lightweight and lean towards a more counter-attacking style....
11:40 AM, May 23, 2013
London: An internet search for "Arjen Robben cuts inside" produces more than two million items, one of them a recent tweet declaring: "That was the 10,000th time Robben has cut inside and shot with his left foot - so predictable". Yet, when the Bayern Munich winger bears down the right in Saturday's Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund's defenders, if they follow in the misdirected footsteps of so many before them,...
11:11 AM, May 23, 2013
