Victory And Defeature For Bayern Munich
By Emeli Dean
On April 24th of this year the Semifinals of the37th UEFA Cup took place. The Europe Cup Competition for football clubs was founded 1971 and is organized by the Union of Europe Football Association (UEFA). The German record football champion Bayern Munich could achieve a tie at the semifinal’s first leg against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg. At the return leg though, they had to admit defeat with a final score of 4:0. Munich’s dream of a triple will not become real.
In the second semifinal game, the Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers could win against the Italian team AC Florence with a 4:2 on penalties. The final took place on Wednesday, May 14th at the City of Manchester Stadium. The Scots were hoping for their first title win at a European competition after 36 years. Back in 1972 the team had won their first and last Europe Cup. National the club is very successful; with 51 championship titles they hold the world record. In the second half of the game the Russian team was leading one. Thanks to two goals in the 72nd and 94th minute they could secure the title.
On May 4th, just one and a half weeks after Munich’s keen disappointment, the Bavarian team could assure themselves already their seventh championship title. Though there are still three match days left for the season the second placed club Werder Bremen is ten uncatchable points in arrears. With this victory the national goalkeeper Oliver Kahn says goodbye to the international stage. The team probably has to list another loss with the forward Lukas Podolski. The best young player at the World Cup 2006 is tired of watching the games from the reserve bench. He wants to be a first-team regular and not play two games and then two games not. The situation already lasts two years. Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld will leave the team after this season as well. New coach will be the former national coach Jürgen Klinsmann.
At the end of the season the Bavarian Club wanted to do something good so they organized a charity match to provide financial aid to the traditional club SV Darmstadt 98. The club was founded in 1898 and counts as one of the oldest clubs in the German football. To escape a bankruptcy the club has to remargin around 1.1 million Euros on taxes and social insurance until the middle of June.
The main and jersey sponsor of the club was the leading cosmetic supplier Wella who have their corporate headquarters in Darmstadt. The contract though was cancelled in the beginning of 2008 due to the risk of bankruptcy. Though there are still some smaller sponsors, it is not enough to get out of the books. The charity match took place on Tuesday, May 13th at the sold out Böllenfalltor-Stadium. The Bavarians showed up with the best possible team and donated the income from the game to the fourth division team Darmstadt. Despite a 5:11 defeat, the club from Darmstadt can celebrate, not only because they got over the financial crisis, also because the team will move up to the regional league in the following season.
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Emeli Dean is a high-ranking writer on sports for the
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