Football – Bavaria’s almost perfect record in the Champions League

The other day he was again in Munich. Samuel Kuffour, called Sammy, the funny defender from Ghana, who was sometimes world class and more often a district class. The occasion was the 125th birthday of FC Bayern. Of course, you also chatted about the next performance in the European Football Circus. On Wednesday, Bayern Munich dueled with Bayer Leverkusen, runner -up against master, in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Clear thing, Kuffour said, and of course Bayern get ahead, because “against German clubs they always win in the Champions League”.

This is nice and convincingly formulated, but only almost right. So far, Bayern have kicked the national competition in the Champions League. Of course, the Champions League final in 2013 against Borussia Dortmund can be remembered first. FC Bayern won late and happily 2-1 through a goal by Arjen Robben. It wasn’t so tight when the Munich team had to deal with the 1st FC Kaiserslautern in the quarter -finals in 1999. The first leg in Munich was won 2-0, the second leg on the Betzenberg even 4: 0.

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But there was still something: a year earlier when Bayern met the BVB in the quarter -finals. The Borussia came as a defending champion for the first leg in the Munich Olympic Stadium. It was a particularly uncomfortable memory for Bavaria, because the Dortmund Eben location had won the title with a 3-1 in the final over Juventus Turin. It was the third and last year in the sign of a Munich misunderstanding that was called Giovanni Trapattoni and, as a memory, left an unintentionally strange rage speech. “A trainer is not an idiot,” said Signore Trap, but not everyone was sure.

Trapattoni did not want to play football, but work and manage, and so at the end of the first Renkontres with BVB there was a consistent 0-0. For the second leg in Dortmund, FC Bayern traveled with the recommendation of three Bundesliga defeats. The championship title was as good as playful, and also at the promoted Kaiserslautern, supervised by Otto Rehhagel, he also a former Munich misunderstanding. In the Champions League, Bayern might have been able to save this missed season, but the team of the football knife Trapattoni would have had to score at least one goal. This danger was not really over 90 minutes, and because the Dortmund also contributed little to a football festival, the extension had to decide. In the end it was the Swiss Stéphane Chapuisat who met for Dortmund’s victory after Lars Ricken’s flank and Michael Zorc’s header extension.

On the Munich side, a certain defender was responsible for this with the number 4, who had only lifted off and then watched Chapuisat interested in completion. Samuel Kuffour, called Sammy, the funny defender from Ghana, who was sometimes world class and more often a district class.