Happy Birthday! Four incredible stories for the 125th birthday of FC Bayern

FC Bayern was on February 27, 1900 founded. With 382,000 members, it is one of the largest clubs in the world. Of course, the Munich team are very proud of their 33 championships, 20 DFB-Cup cup victory and several international triumphs, but it is also the smaller stories for the mighty Bavaria that bring the club alive.

The Munich people are popularly called « the Reds ». Which is ideal because of their often red jerseys. Even if, depending on the extravagance of the designers, the tops were already black, gold, yellow and even blue (1980 in the 1-2 defeat in the European Cup of the national champions). However, the club colors of FC Bayern were originally white and blue. So it is in the minutes of the founding of the association, which took place in the « Weinhaus Gisela » and the split off from MTV 1879 Munich As a result, where the footballers had their homes before. It was only when she was the Munich in 1906 sport-Club (MSC), the coloring changed. The MSC had only placed one condition for the independent football department: to carry red pants. From then on, the Bavarians were called « Rothoses ». The red stayed red when they separated from the MSC again. If it were up to the fans, the Munich team would still wear red and white jerseys almost exclusively today. Already sang Sammy Kuffour on Marienplatz – but that's another story.

The fans of FC Bayern are regularly reminiscent of the moving history of Kurt Landauer. He was President of the Munich four times. After the Holocaust, the Jewish Landauer returned to Munich and even helped his club with parts of his compensation allowance when the Munich team was in a financial hardship. However, the first big title of Bayern has another Jewish father. In 1932, Richard « Little » Dombi led the Munich championship. As a player, he had played caps for Austria, as a coach he was, among other things, for FC Barcelona and the TSV 1860 Munich worked before he took over Bayern. Shortly after the greatest triumph in the club's history, Dombi Nazi-Germany had to leave. He later led Feyenoord Rotterdam to two championships. Even today he is worshiped in the Netherlands.

Bayern have long been leading the eternal table of the Bundesliga. When introducing the single -track league in 1963, they did not belong to the starter field. Instead of Bavaria, the DFB equipped local rival TSV 1860 Munich with a starting place. Quite understandable, after all, the lions had won the southern season in 1963 as the last team. However, the association had previously created other evaluation criteria to fill the 16 places. Among other things, FC Bayern was informed that there was no « sporting past » – which was difficult to justify in view of the then 63 -year history and a German championship title. For FC Bayern, however, the rejection proved to be a stroke of luck. Because in the second -class regional league you could not rely on experienced (and expensive) professionals, one was forced to make it up with promising talents. That's why Sepp Maier stood in the goal, was Franz Beckenbauer Promoted early by the A-Juniors to the men and the young Gerd Müller from Nördlingen. The non-consideration of the DFB turned out to be a stroke of luck for the Munich.

Politics and sport have always been linked. That was no different with Bayern. Of course, the state government's offer was accepted to move to the Olympic Stadium and thus gain an advantage over TSV 1860 Munich. It is also said to be said to be said to be thanks to political prominence if you were reluctant to tax the money that was well -rehearsed during away games. Taxes and FC Bayern, this is a moody story. One thing was to do with one day Franz Beckenbauer Send 1.8 million marks tax residues because the Munich 1 tax office had initiated criminal proceedings. The (and an out-of-marital love affair and the associated boulevard accompaniment) ensured that the emperor moved to the USA in 1977. Which cost him another 350,000 marks because Wilhelm Neudecker no longer wanted to remember promised transfer modalities. A year later, some would have liked to see him at the World Cup in Argentina in German dress. However, the DFB refused to ask for approval from Cosmos New York. This led to the Dionys Jobst and Richard Stücklein, which was made by the CSU MP and Richard Stück, asked the Bundestag: « Is the Federal Government ready to turn on that the record national player Franz Beckenbauer from the American football club Cosmos is released for the German national team for the games of the World Cup in Argentina, without being damaged by the German-American friendship? » Beckenbauer did not return to the DFB team. Another chapter of the interrelationships between sport and politics was written for this.