Christian Nerlinger over time as FC-Bavaria

Christian Nerlinger (49) has told difficult times as a sports director of FC Bayern Munich. Today as a consultant ex-players worked as a sports director after a year as a team manager from 2009 to 2012.

"First of all, it was incredible for me to be included in this Bayernwelt - so to speak in the epicenter - with Uli Hoeneß, Franz Beckenbauer, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge," Nerlinger told the Kicker. The trio worked at the time as Manager, President and CEO.

"But then a phase in which I had lost all joy and fun. The analysis after the lost final against Chelsea was very emotional," Nerlinger reported from the days after the Final Dahoam 2012. "Hoeneß, Hopfner, Rummenigge and I Have worked up for a long time, even loud. Immediately thereafter, in a four-eyes talking with Uli Hoeneß, we finished the topic and joint cooperation. I think it was the right decision. "

In 2009 Nerlinger had taken over the manager tasks of Hoeneß, who was elected president. "He came to my desk and said that his succession was still open and that I should give gas. Him fell as I work. That was brutal. A knights at this level," Nerlinger remembered.

In this transition as a sports director to come in, "not always simple": "Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge are two absolutely charismatic people who can take you with you, from whom I could learn a lot. Between two alphatites, in which However, in the past, it was not always harmonious, but it was often difficult. "

Christian Nerlinger about Louis van Gaal

Decisive involved was Nerlinger in the summer of 2009 at the commitment of Louis van Gaal: "We met in an apartment in Amsterdam. Karl Hopfner, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Uli Hoeneß, me and van Gaal with orange tie. In the evening before he was turned with AZ Alkmaar Master. He clarified very directly: that's how I am, so I work. We knew at home: With him, a lot of the Säbener Straße will change. Even if we have discussed much, we all came to conviction that he would be the right man at the right time. "

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Van Gaal led FC Bayern in his first season to the Champions League final, which was lost with 0: 2 against Inter Milan. "He has an unbalanced squad, a team that had to lose, stabilized, disciplined in Barcelona in 2009 in the Champions League 0: 4 in Barcelona," said Nerlinger.