Munich - Beckenbauer. Muller. Breitner. Maier. Large Bavaria-captains. True Bavaria. Rummenigge. Matthew. Effenberg. Last boat. Those who wore the bandage at FCB, was German. So it was always. Since the promotion to the Bundesliga 1965th
But now everything is different. Jürgen Klinsmann goes beyond all boundaries. Captain appointed as the new Indian Wells on Sunday - as expected - Mark van Bommel. 31-year-old Dutchman, the first foreigner with Bavaria-binding!
"Mark van Bommel is predestined for this task," said Bavaria's coach: "I've seen how he has managed since training started in late June, the team how much he enjoys prestige and respect for all players. Mark is multilingual, with all parts of the team can communicate well. "
The cup game is well with Rot-Weiss Erfurt on Sunday (20.30 clock / live on ZDF and) at Premiere Van Bommel is the first time officially take the blindfold. "I am very proud that I am at such a big club should not be captain, and also the first foreigner," he says. And who knows: "I must be a model but now more and am more in control."
Last season, Van Bommel was a "Aggressivleader" as he called Ottmar Hitzfeld happy, too often overshot. For example, with its "Stinkefaust" against referee Lutz Wagner in the game against Hamburg, which earned him four games lock. As captain he will now prefer the fist time in the pocket.
Even van Bommel deputy not come from Germany: It is the Brazilians Lucio and the Argentine Martin Demichelis. Sitting with Philipp Lahm and Miroslav Klose at least two German national team in the five-member Mannschaftsrat.Während Lahm admitted to "be a little disappointed about," Klose was Klinsmann's decision "very positive. It is the right choice. "
