Football: Bavaria start against Auckland’s hobby kicker in the “adventure”

3: 0? 5: 0? 7: 0? The only question before FC Bayern started in the club World Cup in the USA with many question marks can only be as: How high will the Munich stars defeat the Auckland City hobby kickers? New Zealand was three times world champion in rugby, but in football the five million people is a pretty small nation.

Even in the Bavaria-Tross, nobody dares to artificially speak the record winner of the Champions League of Oceania. Also not sports director Max Eberl. “Auckland is probably the weakest opponent. But we still have to play and win them first,” said the 51-year-old with a view of the group C. Boca Juniors from Argentina and the good Champions League known from Benfica Lisbon will be different calibers.

Late arrival of Kane, Laimer and Sané

It is a task like a first game in the DFB Cup against a league team for Bayern on Sunday at 12:00 p.m. The fall height is huge. But only if Bayern should play Larifari.

The tournament veterans Manuel Neuer (39) and Thomas Müller (35) do not see this danger despite a short adjustment time to the challenging climate, the jet lag and a dismembered arrival of the team. Goal scorer Harry Kane, Konrad Laimer and Leroy Sané, who was still quick to switch to Galatasaray Istanbul, should only be the last player on Friday evening (local time) in the team quarters in Orlando.

“Are here to win the thing”

“We will be ready,” said Captain Neuer. “The spirit is set,” Müller announced before his final Bayern mission. “We go into the tournament to win games. The first game starts.”

Müller reported on an internal announcement by Vincent Kompany: “The trainer did not leave any question mark, but set an exclamation mark. We want to be here to win the thing. And so we tackle it too!”

According to the missed “title Dahoam”, Kompany wants to be part of the gates of New York at the global club competition in America until the final on July 13th. And so that the Bayern bosses fulfill a great wish. At the premiere of the XXL tournament with 32 teams, the cash register should ring. As a world champion, the Bundesliga Kösus would earn over 100 million euros.

“Would be happy if we only lose 0: 3”

Auckland City should be the ideal warm-up for the maximum six games afterwards. “We have many champions in all sports – only in football,” Wynton Rufer told the “kicker”. The former professional of Werder Bremen runs a football school in Auckland. So he knows his way around. The 62-year-old acquaintance honestly: “I would be happy if we only lose 0: 3.”

This set the lower bar for Bayern. “At a tournament, it is always very important to successfully play the first game in the group phase to get in well,” said Captain Neuer. Kompany is particularly likely to offer the actors in the starting eleven, who were part of the first tour group on Tuesday and were able to acclimatize the longest on site.

“Vinnie has thought intensively. You won’t start against Auckland with all national players,” revealed Eberl. He calls the tournament “an adventure” in the new format. Nobody could assess what to expect. “It is a giant tournament and exciting for all of us.”

Company will distribute and dose the operating times at the beginning. Especially with top performers such as Jamal Musiala and Dayot Upamecano, who come from major injuries and are now supposed to give their comeback. “These are boys who will now have to be integrated slowly. They won’t play 90 minutes now – and that every three days. You won’t be able to do that,” said Eberl.