Thomas muller put on his vacation smile when he fell in love with the sabener strabe again after the corona test. With an initial medical check-up and then a virtual unit in front of the screens, triple champion FC bayern has started its training for the new season.
As already proven during the preparation for the champions league triumph, coach hansi flick loves his proteges to sweat in their own four walls. After a few more days of diagnostics, the munich-based company then plans to launch the. September: training together on the pitch for the first time.
But then a first injury could already spoil the good mood in munich’s late summer. Newcomer tanguy nianzou has injured his thigh and is out for the time being. According to the bavarians, the 18-year-old suffered the injury while playing for the french U20 national team. He will be absent "until further notice," it said. Nianzou joined the german soccer record champions in the summer from munich’s champions league final opponents paris saint-germain.
A report by "bild" and "sport bild" talks of a downtime of up to six weeks. The bavarian team did not prazisierten the prognosis. But the defender could miss the start of the season. After munich’s first-round match in the DFB cup against duren was postponed until mid october, the flick proteges will have to play in the bundesliga on 18 october. September (20.30 o’clock/ARD/DAZN) against FC schalke 04 for the first time.
Six days later, the team will face FC sevilla for the european super cup, where manuel neuer and co. Playing in front of spectators again for the first time since the rough corona lockdown. The stadium in budapest may be opened on 24. September to be filled by just under a third. Uefa president aleksander ceferin sees this as a "pilot test", as he said on tuesday. 3000 tickets available for bayern fans.
The backdrop is familiar to the munich crowd. But who will be wearing the bavarian jersey in the hungarian capital remains to be seen. It is unclear whether playmaker thiago will have left the club by then, and if so, to where. It is also not certain whether veteran javi martinez will return to his hometown club athletic bilbao as reported by the spanish media. And finally, it remains to be seen whether ivan perisic will be signed permanently by inter milan after his loan period. The clubs negotiate.
Coach flick wants to be on the 9. September for the first time to the new season and the personnel topics aubern. 17 days after the champions league victory in lisbon, he brings the three trophies of the triple to the bayern museum at the allianz arena.