FC Bayern Munich beat TSG Hoffenheim 6-0 in the German Bundesliga on Saturday (match report >>>).
After the game, however, no one talks about the result anymore, but much more about the subversive attacks by Bayern fans on Dietmar Hopp.
During the game, supporters of Munich showed banners with wild insults against the TSG patron. The game was then interrupted, Bayern players and Bayern managers, such as coaches Hansi Flick, Hasan Salihamidzic and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, persuaded the fans to remove the posters.
At the same time, supporters of Borussia Dortmund expressed their displeasure with Dietmar Hopp in the game against SC Freiburg. Bayern managers assume a previously agreed action among ultra groupings of the league.
According to Bayern coach Hansi Flick, some details of the planned Bayern Ultras campaign had already leaked to the club management in advance. “I knew that maybe something was planned. We tried to counteract these actions with our fan representative. Unfortunately, something like this happens again and again. Despite the controls, they get posters like this in the stadium. That just doesn’t work,” said Flick after the game “Sky”.
Rummenigge: “Will People Be Accountable”
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, CEO of FC Bayern, expresses his lack of understanding of his own fans and announces that he will hold the people who are out of line accountable. “I am deeply ashamed of Bayern for the chaos. Now is the time when the DFB and all those responsible have to act against these chaots,” said Rummenigge.
“This is the very ugly face of FC Bayern Munich. We will act with great harshness against those who discredited FC Bayern today. We filmed everything and will hold people accountable,” the Bayern boss announced the consequences.
Rummenigge also commits the German association: “Today must rethink. The whole Bundesliga, the DFL and the DFB have to stand together and act against these chaos. We have closed our eyes for far too long.”
Hoffenheim sports director Alexander Rosen thanks the Bayern officials for their support after the game: “I have to compliment the referees, the sensible fans and the FC Bayern players. A limit was crossed that we cannot let go It’s against a person and a club, but mostly it’s about a person. “
Bayern fans justify themselves: “No alternative”
The FC Bayern fan scene justified itself in an online letter for the incidents and showed no insight. The text published on “suedkurve-muenchen.org” on Saturday reads, among other things: “You don’t have to approve of the wording, but there was no alternative for us because this is the only way to get the necessary attention.”
The fans did not make an apology, instead criticism of the two interruptions was expressly made. “If, in the future, you want to stop or interrupt football matches whenever such insults are expressed in the bleachers, you will no longer be able to play a game over 90 minutes. The interruption today was simply excessive and absurd,” it said.
Also at the game between Borussia Dortmund and SC Freiburg there was abuse against Hopp at the same time. Here, too, the game was briefly interrupted, but later resumed. “It has nothing to do with us in the stadium. We can only distance ourselves with all our strength. So far, the Bundesliga has not got a grip on it. We have reached a point that is no longer tolerable. That sucks,” says BVB sports director Michael Zorc.
Borussia Dortmund fans were recently punished for similar banners with a two-year ban on the away sector in Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim’s guest appearance in Mönchengladbach was interrupted when Hopp’s portrait was marked with a crosshair by fans of the hosts.
DFL on Hopp hostility: “no longer acceptable”
In the meantime, the DFL (German Football League) has already commented on the incidents. DFL managing director Christian Seifert criticized the Bayern Ultras sharply: “The permanent hostility to Dietmar Hopp has long been unacceptable and to be condemned severely. We have had a sad climax in this regard today. There is no excuse for that.”
“All those involved – players, the referee team and those responsible from Bayern Munich and TSG Hoffenheim as well as a very, very large number of stadium visitors – acted in an exemplary manner in this situation and thus sent a clear signal to some self-proclaimed rulers of football culture, such derailments no longer to be tolerated. This must be the aim of all German professional football, “says Seifert.
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