Berlin: Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes will sit on the coaching bench for a Bundesliga game for the last time when the champions meet his former club Borussia Moenchengladbach in the season finale on Saturday, and hinted on Monday that he might retire.
The 68-year-old, who won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 1998 and had a long playing and coaching career at Gladbach, will make way for Pep Guardiola after the end of the season following two years in charge at Bayern. "Saturday will be my last Bundesliga game as a coach," Heynckes, who coached Bayern in three stints in his career, told reporters.
"What will happen after that, we will have to wait until after our two finals. I will probably say something in June after the German Cup final." His team have clinched the Bundesliga title and could win an unprecedented treble of titles for a German club with the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund on May 25 and the German Cup final on June 1 still to come.
Heynckes, who has coached teams in 641 Bundesliga matches, second only to Otto Rehhagel, hinted he could even call it quits after the season. "If I was 15 years younger I would seriously think about a job abroad but I am not the youngest any more and clubs want to do a generation change and you cannot really do it with a 68-year-old."...
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05:10 PM, May 14, 2013
Munich: Borussia Dortmund boss Hans-Joachim Watzke and his colleagues will not have lunch with their Bayern Munich counterparts before Saturday's Bundesliga match, saying relations between the Champions League finalists had gone cold. Watzke admitted he had been irritated by the recent behaviour of Germany's biggest club who last week signed Dortmund's Mario Goetze. "I have always spoken about Bayern with great respect and admiration. But I must say now that...
10:47 PM, May 02, 2013
Madrid: The manner of the Champions League semi-final exits of Barcelona and Real Madrid have set in motion likely overhauls at both clubs, and is forcing La Liga to re-evaluate itself in the face of a resurgent German Bundesliga. Barcelona were humbled 7-0 on aggregate by German champions Bayern Munich on Wednesday, the day after Real almost overturned their shock 4-1 first leg defeat away to outsiders Borussia Dortmund, to...
03:39 PM, May 02, 2013
Berlin: Bayer Leverkusen have had talks with Chelsea over the possible transfer of 22-year-old attacking midfielder Andre Schuerrle, the Bundesliga soccer club said on Friday, though they denied the deal was close to being finalised. "I can confirm the talks in London," Leverkusen spokesman Meinolf Sprink told reporters, confirming German media reports of sports director Rudi Voeller's trip to the English capital on Thursday. Sprink said no decision had yet...
06:17 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Berlin: Bayern Munich won their German league title in record time on Saturday by beating Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 to open up an unassailable 20-point lead with six games left in the season. The Bavarians ended the two-year reign of Borussia Dortmund by clinching their 22nd Bundesliga title faster than any club in the league's 50-year history. Bastian Schweinsteiger beautifully flicked the ball into the net with a backheel in the...
09:23 PM, Apr 06, 2013
It is the biggest win in Bundesliga in 13 years and Bayern's biggest since 8-1 against Schalke in the 1987-88 season. ...
01:59 PM, Mar 31, 2013
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02:21 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Artjoms Rudenevs secured Hamburg a 1-0 win over struggling Stuttgart while Hannover and Frankfurt shared points after a goalless draw to close the 25th round of the German Bundesliga. ...
02:43 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Wynton Rufer is teaching football skills to some Indian kids in New Delhi. ...
09:57 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Bayern Munich said that they have hired Pep Guardiola as their new coach starting next season. ...
09:38 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Bayern Munich's offensive midfielder Thomas Mueller extended his running contract until June 2017. ...
12:40 PM, Dec 20, 2012
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05:06 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Munich: About 200 Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 fans were taken into custody after a snack bar was destroyed and police were attacked as trouble broke out at the Ruhr Valley derby on Saturday. Most of those detained were Schalke supporters, German police said in a statement. "Dortmund and Schalke's violent criminals consciously undermined our security concept," said police director Dieter Keil. "Their aim was to fight their rivals and...
10:55 AM, Oct 21, 2012
Berlin: Borussia Dortmund have won back-to-back Bundesliga titles but are not favourites this season as rivals Bayern Munich have bolstered their squad and the Ruhr valley club is also focusing on the Champions League, said club CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke. Dortmund have climbed up to third in the Bundesliga after a rocky start and drew 1-1 at Manchester City in their Champions League Group D match on Wednesday with the hosts...
10:18 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Berlin: Winger Arjen Robben is recovering from a minor muscle problem and will miss Tuesday's Champions League match in Belarus against BATE Borisov, the Bundesliga club said. Dutch international Robben did not play in Bayern's 2-0 league win over Werder Bremen on Saturday but his absence was not felt as the Bavarians cruised to their sixth win in six league games. Bayern, who opened their Group F campaign with a...
05:09 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Tottenham midfielder Rafael van der Vaart has ended transfer speculation linking him with a move to the Bundesliga by insisting that he has no plans to leave White Hart Lane this summer. Following the sacking of Harry Redknapp it was widely reported that the former Real Madrid player was considering a move, with Hamburg and Schalke among the clubs supposedly interested in his signature. But Van der Vaart has claimed...
04:01 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Manchester: Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa has spoken to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and would like to move to an English Premier League club, the Japanese international said on Wednesday. "It was good to meet and actually talk to him. He had some nice things to say to me," the 23-year-old told reporters. Kagawa has been widely linked with a seven-million-Pound transfer to the Premier League runners-up by British...
05:19 AM, May 17, 2012
London: Champions League finalists Chelsea have agreed to sign Germany midfielder Marko Marin from Werder Bremen at the end of the season when the summer transfer window opens. The west London club said on Saturday that they have agreed to a fee for the 23-year-old playmaker and that Marin has agreed to personal terms. However, Chelsea did not say how much they would pay for the player who was linked...
08:09 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Berlin: From a stuttering start to the season, Borussia Dortmund retained the Bundesliga title with two rounds to go by beating Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 on Saturday. Ivan Perisic scored in the 23rd minute and Shinji Kagawa in the 59th to launch the celebrations for Dortmund's eighth German league championship. "There are no words to describe what the lads have done," Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp said as his side sealed the...
09:07 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Berlin: Schalke 04 forward Raul is to leave at the end of the season when his contract expires, the Bundesliga club said on Thursday. The 34-year-old has been at the Gelsenkirchen club for two seasons, scoring 27 Bundesliga goals in 63 matches. Schalke had made the former Real Madrid and Spain captain an offer to stay, but the club said that he has decided to leave. "He will explain his...
11:53 AM, Apr 21, 2012
