FC Bayern Campus as a response to the transfer madness

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FC Bayern opened its new, modern Junior performance centre. The Campus should be the “correct answer” of the German record champion to millions of transfers like Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain.

With a new youth Academy, FC Bayern Campus, starts Germany’s record Champions in the future, the attack on Europe’s football throne. “I am convinced that we can give the right answer to the development in international football, on the whole transfer madness and the salary explosions,” said a “proud and happy” Uli Hoeness at the opening ceremony of the new premises.

The club, the new home of his offspring, a total of 70 million euros of costs – “not even half a Neymar”, as Munich’s mayor Dieter Reiter said smugly. The Qataris ruling house funded club Paris St. Germain had the Brazilian from FC Barcelona 222 million euros in costs. Maybe more successful, it is the FC Bayern with his Academy, President Hoeness, the lead, the other clubs had, by investors from the Middle East or Russia, “with clever Tactics” to compensate. They wanted to wear the “Mia san mia” in the world: “The Campus should be a hallmark.”

In the future, Transfers of 16 – and 17-Year-old

Bayern President Uli Hoeness

But it is not only the Refusal of Bavaria to such a highly doped Transfers, but also obvious defects in one’s own home, the Munich-based act. Because in the young people’s work of catching up to do at Bayern. Seven years ago, the Austrian David Alaba as yet, the last youth player had managed sustainably for the jump to the pros. In future, it should happen more often, so the desire of those responsible. You have to train with the Academy, “the possibility of players like Alaba, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Philipp Lahm or Toni Kroos again,” said Hoeness. You plane, but also Transfers in 16-, 17-Year-old, as the FC Bayern will take “money in Hand”.

The ideal way to develop the FC Bayern so, in the future, “every year a player for the professional Department. This is wishful thinking,” said Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge last. The Maxim will be, – said Hoeness, “to be better than the other”, than about RB Leipzig, Dortmund or Hoffenheim. He is “convinced that we have the opportunity to generate a great deal of success in the future”.

Gerland: “talents with corners and edges”

The new youth Academy, impressed: On an area of 30 hectares, a small stadium for 2500 spectators have been built since the laying of the Foundation stone in October 2015, a further seven football fields, a fitness hill, Club house, sport hall, canteen, and a boarding school for 35 talents. The Area in the immediate vicinity of the Allianz Arena will be the home of the Munich youth teams from U9 up to U19. The Bundesliga women to withdraw from the Säbener Strasse over here.

Talent developer Hermann Gerland since 2001 belongs to the coaching staff of FC Bayern Munich

Will be directed to the Campus from the former assistant coach Hermann Gerland. He is the discoverer of players such as Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Müller, Alaba and Mats Hummels. Jochen is in charge of oxygen as managing the administrative area. “We need talents with elbows and edges. All want to have the Ball,” said Gerland, the Motto of the Junior performance centre. “The Motto is: think, Give the enemy no time!” The guys would have to behave but also decent, “and outside of the square. We are Bayern Munich and represented this club. There’s a saying that is Old School, but discipline is just part of it.”

asz/ck (sid, dpa)