Posts tagged “Bayern Munich”

BAYERN Munich could be eyeing the “impossible treble” this season as they look ahead to the conclusion of the UEFA Champions League in August. Not many clubs have managed to win their two main domestic prizes and the UEFA Champions League, in fact it has been achieved just eight times, the last in 2015 with Barcelona. Bayern recently completed their eighth consecutive Bundesliga title and followed that by winning the DFB Pokal. They’ve won 13 domestic trophies in eight years out of a possible 16. It is time, perhaps, to win another UEFA Champions League, a prize they haven’t secured since 2013. At home in Germany, Bayern still refuse to be overthrown. Each season, the same question gets asked – “are FC Bayern showing…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, European football, Germany, Munich, Robert Lewandowski, UEFA Champions League

Can Bayern or PSG join the list of treble winners this season?

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on July 7, 2020

SURPRISINGLY, only eight teams have managed to win a comparable trio of competitions, although many have gone close. Some of this select group have been built around outstanding individuals, such as Lionel Messi and Ajax’s Johan Cruyff, while others – like Celtic in 1967 – were founded on the team ethic. Inevitable comparisons will be made about “who is the greatest?”, but it’s an impossible exercise. A team can only beat the opposition in front of it and in all cases, the treble winners have done just that. This season, only two teams, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain could join this illustrious list. Celtic 1967 Jock Stein’s team actually won five cups in 1966-67: the European Cup; the Scottish League; the Scottish League Cup;…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Ajax Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Celtic, featured, Inter Milan, Manchester United, PSV Eindhoven

Soccer City: Why Munich is Germany’s football capital

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on May 30, 2020

WHAT chance has any club got when you have Bayern Munich on your doorstep? TSV 1860 Munich, the Bavarian capital’s oldest club, has an unenviable task in trying to get air time when the behemoth that is FC Bayern pervades every side street, kiosk and newspaper. As a city, Munich has much to offer as well as three professional clubs – SpVgg Unterhaching, formed in 1925, is the other team – it is a stylish and comfortable metropolis. We know it for a number of clichés, beer halls, foaming lager, lederhosen, oompah bands and hearty food that relies heavily on meat, potatoes and bread. It’s the home of BMW and insurance giant Allianz and it has played its part in European history in many…

Categories: Soccer City

Tagged: 1972, Allianz Arena, Bayern Munich, Europe, Germany, Lead, Munich, Olympic Stadium, Soccer City, top slot, TSV 1860 Munich, World Cup 1974

Forget Barca – Shakhtar Donetsk and Lincoln Red Imps are the more successful

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on May 1, 2020

IT’S well known that Real Madrid were the outstanding team of the UEFA Champions League in the period between 2010 and 2019, winning the trophy four times. In terms of overall European prizes, Chelsea, Sevilla and Atlético Madrid all won three, although only the Londoners lifted the “cup with the big ears” from that trio. From a domestic perspective (League and Cup), who were Europe’s most successful teams? The popular view today is that modern football is dominated by a handful of clubs, and certainly at the very top level, the final stages of the Champions League are monotonously similar each year. But what we see in the major leagues such as Spain, Italy, Germany and France is more or less replicated across the…

Categories: Europe

Tagged: Bayern Munich, Celtic, Dinamo Zagreb, Germany, Lead, Lincoln Red Imps, Shakhtar Donetsk, teams of the decade, The New Saints, top slot, UEFA