FC Bayern Forum

Gotze ahead of ze roberto and lucio?
Boateng ahead of lehmann,Sagnol and franz roth?
and Dante is an all time Bundesliga star? then even Rafinha desreves to be there..
Rest is more or less ok!

As long as the top 10 is dominated by Bayern players, I got no problem.

DerKaiser wrote:

Schmeichel is aware of the robbery that took place that night in Barcelona.

This is a world of fakes... I want to see Uli in these pictures.

I had the same thought to be honest. It's ironic that an exhibition focusing on one social group in particular (while ignoring all the others who've been legends throughout our history) is seen as a message for equality.

That said, I have nothing against the exhibition itself. I think the Jewish part of Bayern's history is fascinating and something to be proud of.

ramsej84 wrote:

FCBayernMunchen wrote:I had the same thought to be honest. It's ironic that an exhibition focusing on one social group in particular (while ignoring all the others who've been legends throughout our history) is seen as a message for equality.

That said, I have nothing against the exhibition itself. I think the Jewish part of Bayern's history is fascinating and something to be proud of.

I know that the 1st pres was a jew... but why it is something to be proud of? Are the Jews a master race or something ?

No, but when all of Germany was bowing down to the Nazis Bayern stayed true to their values as far as they could.

Uli back and cut the crap. How about 'grab a pizza slice day'...

Isn't it the anniversary of something relating to Auschwitz or something? Saw it in the news today. It's part of Bayern's history. It's not picking sides it's remembering that part of history and what it meant to the club which was the Jews in the German football at that troubled time. It's a remembrance that the club had taken a stand when political issues were affecting football.

As I said before, unless those Al Hilal players were 'slave players', why should Bayern take a stand and refuse to play against them just because of the controversial venue? Those issues are beyond Bayern's control. It's not like UAE and Qatar don't have human rights issues and other clubs visited them this winter. City even suffered for their midweek trip with a loss in the FA Cup. But no, only Bayern needs to be called out for visiting the Middle East.

runaway wrote:Isn't it the anniversary of something relating to Auschwitz or something? Saw it in the news today.

Yep. 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Germans have to justify for everything... this is how I see it.
What happens around the stadium on a daily basis doesn't affect what's in it?

There's nothing Bayern can do about another country's policies can it? It's not like the club can release a statement refusing to play on venues with issues with human rights or unless they fix their countries' problems. Every country has done and doing violation of human rights. It will be hypocritical to condemn one country when another clearly does the same (is USA not as guilty in violating human rights as countries like Saudi Arabia?)

Unless the issue is directly affecting football like racism towards certain players (like Jews in the past) or Qatar 2022, I don't see what Bayern can do to fix societal problems especially of another country. Maybe Bayern should also refuse sponsorship from companies that are involved in questionable practices like Adidas and it's Chinese factories. That will be a big move and help solve the labor issues in China would it?

Bayern is a football club. Unless the issue is about football, it has very little influence on issues outside of it. As I said before, sports is a reflection of our society. One can't fix the reflection by drawing onto the mirror neither can the reflection fix what it reflects.

Until we tackle the issue of racism in mainstream society, we cannot get rid of it in any other part of society - of which football is but one of many. [source]

Simply put we don't care about injustice or things like that, we're not alone.
Sport is sport, but not always.