Oliver Kahn’s Controversial Departure from FC Bayern and his Glittering Welcome in Saudi Arabia

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As of: September 19, 2023, 9:08 p.m

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Oliver Kahn also comments on the departure from FC Bayern in Saudi Arabia. © DPA German Press Agency

(sid). Oliver Kahn holds a golden goblet, Oliver Kahn has tea served from a golden pot, Oliver Kahn presents a golden glove. In short: It glitters and sparkles in the pictures that show the former Bayern boss then and now in Saudi Arabia. Of course, with so much welcoming culture, Kahn doesn’t give up – and raves about his politically highly controversial hosts.

“Investing in football can never be a bad thing,” said the 54-year-old on the Saudi TV show Kora Rotana about the league’s billion-dollar transfer offensive. His twelve-year-old son wanted to watch the games with Cristiano Ronaldo or Karim Benzema on TV at home, he said, “that’s wonderful. Football brings the world together, we all saw that at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.«

Kahn visited several clubs in Saudi Arabia and continued the business contacts he had made in 2017. In the TV show he was presented as an “icon” and highlights from his professional career were repeatedly recorded. He retaliated with his crushes – and was ridiculed at home for it.

Bayern member Michael Ott, chief critic of “his” club on the issue of Qatar sponsorship, wrote in X about the “tragic case of a former world goalkeeper who is now personally supporting Saudi Arabian propaganda. Just disappointing.«

Like Kahn’s exit from FC Bayern in May. His farewell, Kahn reported from some distance from the Persian Gulf, was “better for both sides.” If you “get to a point in a club where you have different opinions or different ways of thinking, different views on certain issues, development, strategy or leadership and you can’t bring them together, then it’s better for both sides to have their own “His two years at the helm of a world club were not easy,” Kahn added.

Kahn also reported that, in his opinion, the departure of national coach Hansi Flick came too late. Immediately after the World Cup preliminary round exit in Qatar would have been “the best time to change the coach.”

Now he seems ready for something new. A job at FIFA, for example? “Someone once said,” said Kahn with a smile: “Everything is possible in life.” There would certainly be someone at the world association who would give him a golden spoon.

2023-09-20 01:15:33
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