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Christoph Leischwitz
Munich has been awarded the contract for two football games by the US professional league NFL. This was announced by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday afternoon (local time) in Los Angeles. The first game will take place next autumn in the Fröttmaninger Arena, the season starts in September and lasts until the end of December.
“There will be two games in Munich and two in Frankfurt in the next four years,” Goodell said at a press conference a few days before the Super Bowl on Sunday. Munich, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf had previously made it into the shortlist.
Dozens of league matches have been played in London since 2007. However, Germany is considered an increasingly important sales market for the NFL. Which teams will travel to Munich is still open. It is possible that the top team of the Kansas City Chiefs is among them, because the team from the Midwest operates a cooperation with FC Bayern and had announced that it wanted to focus on the German market.
The NFL ends its current season on Monday night (0.30 am) with the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium south of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will play for the championship.
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