Rummenigge returns to Bayern Munich direct

2023-05-30 20:32:02

MUNICH (AP) — Former CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge returns to Bayern Munich as a member of the club’s supervisory board.

Bayern announced on Tuesday that the 67-year-old Rummenigge is returning in order to keep the team on a winning path.

Club legend in his days as a player and then manager, Rummenigge had been replaced by Oliver Kahn as CEO in December 2021.

“He is one of the great personalities in our club’s history, everyone knows his merits,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer said. “His experience, knowledge and international network will help us enormously to ensure that Bayern remains a successful in the future.”

Bayern was left without a sports director following dismissing Hasan Salihamidzic along with Kahn last Saturday, immediately following stretching their record of consecutive Bundesliga titles to 11.

The Bavarian institution introduced Jan-Christian Dreesen as Kahn’s successor on Sunday, and Hainer announced that he would propose Rummenigge’s return during a partners’ meeting on Tuesday.

Rummenigge, who played as a forward and scored 162 goals in 310 Bundesliga appearances for Bayern, won the European Cup with the club in 1975 and 1976. He also won two German league titles before joining Inter Milan in 1984. .

He returned to Bayern in 1991 as vice president and was the general manager between 2002 and 2021. During that time, the club won the treble in 2013 and a historic six-title year in 2020. In all, under Rummenigge, the club won the Bundesliga in 14 times, in addition to ten German Cups and two Champions Leagues.

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