Football Bundesliga: Kompany’s first beer shower and a coaching lie

Vincent Kompany did not yet deal with the Bavarian ritual of the beer shower for a master coach. Even if the football teacher smiled when the inevitable question came about. “All these scenarios are not in my head yet,” said the 39 -year -old coach of FC Bayern with a loyal look before the home game against FSV Mainz 05: “Only the game is important to me what happens in the 90 minutes.”

This Saturday at 5:15 p.m. it can be so far in the Bundesliga. On the 31st matchday, the Munich could pour the 34th championship title in the sold -out Allianz Arena. Prerequisite: You will win your game against Mainz – and the German champion and pursuer Bayer Leverkusen, which was faced with the replacement, does not win against FC Augsburg at the same time.

“My title?” So company does not tick

With eight points ahead, the return of the master shell to Munich is only considered a matter of time after twelve months in Leverkusen. And for Kompany, it would be the first big title win as a coach after the second division championship and the promotion to the Premier League with FC Burnley 2023. However, the ex-professional would never come to the fore.

“As a coach, you have the feeling that it is the players who won the title,” said Kompany and explained it. “I would never say: my title. Every coach who says my title lies a bit. It’s about the players about the work they do.” For the 31 -year -old striker Harry Kane, it would finally be the first trophy he wins with a team. And for record champions Thomas Müller to say goodbye to the 13th championship with FC Bayern.

Müller before 500 Bundesliga game

And that may also be in Müller’s 500th Bundesliga game, which he could cheer after a few days of illness during the week on Saturday. “Thomas’ numbers are impressive. Games, goals, titles, simply unique,” enthused sports director Max Eberl about the club’s record player.

By the way, without the stricken striker Kane, Bayern lost the first leg in the Mainz team fighting for participation in European Cup 1: 2. It was one of only two league defeats under Kompany who derives special motivation for reunion in Munich from this negative experience: “We have lost against Mainz – and we don’t like that.”

Vacation for Bayern professionals before club World Cup

In parallel to the transformation of one of the four master match balls, summer plans are running at Bayern. Kompany revealed that after the missed Champions League final on May 31 after the last Bundesliga matchday (May 17), he will send his professionals on vacation for up to two weeks.

“It is a special situation with the club World Cup,” he said with a view to the XXL tournament with 32 teams from June 15th to July 13th in the USA. “We can now make the best plan for the boys,” said Kompany. “It is important for us that we are in top shape and competitive at this club World Cup.”

The Bayern staff for the coming season should still do a lot before, during and after this financially lucrative club World Cup. In the keyword squad planning and publicly traded Munich sales lists with names of Kingsley Coman to Minjae Kim to Sacha Boey, Eberl reacted somewhat annoyed on Friday and also a little louder in the tone.

“We will also think about what we can do in summer without radical through this squad,” said the sports director: “What I always read: get out! And then new! No! We have a very, very good squad.” One who is for the championship title.