In 2012 the Champions League final will be held in Munich, at the Allianz Arena.
And we have to be there!
I always sensed when something special was coming,
and that is something special,
which you may never experience in your life again, only once.
That's the day when you have to be there.
We have the big opportunity
to be in the final, and to play another Champions League final,
and at home in Munich to boot.
And you certainly noticed
that it's something very special.
You noticed it in the whole city.
For us it was clear from the beginning:
we want to lift the trophy at home, at our own stadium in front of our fans.
It all started in the group stage,
with the tifo in the Arena:
“Those who want to go home must start on their way.“
There you realised:
this whole feeling in the city is different.
It's everything.
What's more, from the start it wasn't just about winning the Champions League,
but about wanting to play the final at home.
It was also the case
that the work of a whole season, or rather the work
of several years was geared towards this Champions League final.
There's this one dream.
Something that no other team have achieved in the Champions League before,
namely playing in a final at home at your own stadium!
Here you go.
CHAPTER 4 HOME SICKNESS
For the fans that was Real Madrid, the great Real Madrid.
They were a top team at that time.
Cristiano! Sergio!
Were we favourites? I dare to doubt it, against Real,
rather it was evenly matched, if not Real were even slight favourites.
So you know it's going to be hard, but you always believe.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL
If this was already 32 days later, in exactly 32 days the Champions League final
takes place right here.
But first it's the semi-final.
They had a great team at that time, with Ronaldo and all the other names.
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Karim Benzema said: it was the best Real Madrid team he ever played in.
Yeah, yeah! The best team in Europe.
But the same way Barcelona was the best team years before — we broke it.
And we broke it in an incredible way.
Players at the perfect age.
Cristiano, Benzema, Higuain, Mesut, Xabi Alonso...
We were speaking about players in a great moment of their careers.
Of course you know you're up against strong guys.
But it's not like you have fear.
And at that time we had no fear, either.
And when the draws came along, they didn't want Bayern Munich
because they always had immense respect for our mentality.
That is: never giving up.
It was one of those games where every spectator
knew from the first second to the last
that he can now personally contribute
to this dream becoming reality.
That this “Finale dahoam“ [“final at home“]
can really be called "Finale dahoam“.
You also felt it from outside,
how the fans were just up for it.
I think we were ready,
we were ready for the fight,
and we were ready to play at that level.
They were always tough games against Real Madrid,
a lot of great players on the pitch.
There were chances on both sides.
It was very, very intense.
I think you also saw
in this game how much we wanted it.
In 2012, for me Bayern was a team
with a little bit more flair, with a little bit more freedom
and with a little bit more dynamism.
That team was a little bit more unpredictable than the previous one.
Not bad.
Ribéry! 1-0! 1-0!
The celebrations with the players,
with the fans.
That was an awesome moment.
The ball bounces off me,
Franck takes it directly. 1-0.
The place erupts.
Something else I'll never forget: the atmosphere in the stadium,
it was unbelievable.
Then, shortly before half-time, there was a free kick.
Yes, I can remember that well.
We're into the last minute of the first half.
I think there was a free kick just before half-time, and I think
Franck wanted to take it.
Free kick from the right side,
Jupp said: Franck and Toni from the right,
and Arjen and David take from the left side.
He wanted to take it or something, and actually it wasn't on my side either.
It wasn't so much that I
wanted to take it.
But yes, I was interested
and I interfered.
Then Arjen joined in, I think,
and said to Toni that he should take it.
And then Arjen came
and said to me: “You shouldn't take.
Let Toni Kroos take.“
I said, "Let Toni take", or something like that.
And there he was... It was something like that.
And then...
Obviously they're also both emotional characters,
and they had a bit of an argument with each other.
And then Toni took it.
Whatever! I think that was kind of the background, what it was about.
Then the ominous half-time.
Yes, there was a bit of anger in the dressing room.
Yes,
we weren't too happy with each other there.
I'm not sure how openly we can communicate here.
Can we tell that?
Half-time. We go down the tunnel, into the dressing room.
And I see Franck at the front just swearing in French.
I think he reeled off every swear word.
You're leading against Real Madrid,
and at half-time suddenly
emotions are boiling over.
I just tied my boots,
looked at the floor, recovered.
I didn't know at the time what was really going on.
We had a bit of an argument, but...
Franck wasn't too pleased.
Then there's an argument and sometimes it snaps.
Then it goes off.
Without warning.
There wasn't much really discussed or spoken about.
You can't influence it that much anymore.
When two grown men
have differing opinions
and are emotionally heated up.
Everyone was shouting, Philipp then came and said: "This can't be happening!"
Naturally I was hopping mad.
I'm captain of the team,
and it would've been bad if I as captain had said nothing at half-time.
I look to my right and then I see Gianni,
one of our physios,
putting ice on Arjen's eye.
Yes, everyone saw it,
that's no secret.
Then at some point, Markus Hörwick came
to us in the stands — and he was always down below,
he never came up to us — and says: "Can I have a quick word?"
And then I say: "Yes, what is it?“ And he says:
“Unfortunately there's been an incident in the dressing room."
I said: "We can't change that now,
we'll have to deal with it after the match."
That there are discussions at half-time,
and that you also sometimes yell at each other, that can happen.
But when you have a common goal
and that's knocking out Real Madrid in the semi-finals,
then it's obviously a hindrance when it becomes more than a discussion,
and fisticuffs come into it.
That's not only not okay in football, but not okay in general.
Crazy what happened.
They've told you before, right?
You have to carry on, a whole half.
We both continued playing.
It continued, we then conceded a stupid goal.
He chipped it over, or something?
It was then 1-1, but okay.
But we knew that we somehow still had them under control.
It didn't feel like the Champions League,
not in terms of the quality of football,
but in terms of the fight.
It was like a local village derby.
Everyone wants to somehow scratch the other's face
with the heel.
It was...
Both really had the bit between their teeth.
We stick at it.
Okay, we have the objective.
It's 2012.
We keep going.
But then Bayern really,
in a kind of “softly, softly, Hörwick monkey" way, created one chance after the other.
That's also Mario Gómez.
Lots of situations where people say:
"My, you can't miss that!“
Then, the 92nd minute...
Two and a half minutes left. Real running down the clock.
From the first to the last minute
we really battled.
Believed.
Lahm.
I think that's also something that you pick up on at FC Bayern.
That you believe you can win the game until the end.
Against Coentrão, nice!
I do everything so that my club win.
Philipp Lahm!
At that time I went onto the pitch
and I knew, I'm going to score today.
And now it's in!
Mario Gómez gets his goal, in the last minute.
Philipp crosses,
I slide in and then, I think I push the ball over the line with my knee.
Well, now it looks different again!
So thankfully we made it 2-1,
shortly before the end. That was also important.
The dream of the final lives on!
“And we have to be there!“ Quote:
Uli Hoeneß.
Then, practically with the final whistle,
we won 2-1 and the atmosphere was actually good.
U" and I were always in the dressing room after the game,
we wanted to congratulate the team but then noticed:
the atmosphere is a bit strange here.
And then I asked: “Where is Arjen, in fact?“
They said he's over in the doping control room.
Then I went to Arjen and he described his version of events to me.
And then I said:
"Arjen, we'll meet tomorrow morning at 10 at Säbener Street."
We had a meeting the next morning.
Present: Ribéry and Robben.
And on the way there I
phoned Franck and said to him: "I'll tell you one thing:
If you don't apologise today, you'll be in big trouble with me,
big trouble.“
We then sat in the boardroom.
And Franck:
“Yes, Arjen, I'm terribly sorry." And so on and so forth.
And then we discussed
and decided that Franck would get a heavy fine.
Yes, we then patched up the matter to some extent
and Franck left a bit earlier for home or for training.
Arjen was still there.
I got the impression that Arjen wasn't
very convinced.
He said to us:
"One thing is clear: I'm never playing in a team with him again."
When you ask me that question
one day after the match, I was still a bit...
In terms of the emotions, I probably wasn't that happy with him.
Then I said: “Now I'll tell you one thing: we stay sitting here until you take that back.“
Then we had a game at Bremen.
And obviously it was incredibly important for us to calm the whole situation down.
I then got the team together
to explain that and what the current state is,
and that it should never happen again.
We spoke a lot with each other.
Franck and I were very good with each other.
Sure, there were always people who said
that we didn't always get on well. We did, though.
When I'm on the pitch
without Robben,
that's bad.
Well, on the pitch
we got on really well.
Off the pitch, too, we got on really well.
Now your declaration of love?
Yes, I love him too, of course.
But we're also both
emotional characters, and we just clashed once in the dressing room.
At the start Arjen and I were good together,
good teammates,
but after that we became real brothers.
You don't need to tell any player at that level that the second leg's going to be a solo effort,
when you've won the first leg 2-1.
Especially when you're playing at the Bernabéu against Real Madrid.
The Bernabéu is certainly a magical stadium, I must say,
because you just feel when you come in,
history has been made there, there's a certain kind of magic.
Now you can say about the Santiago Bernabéu:
obviously the fans aren't like at Celtic or at Old Trafford,
who are always the loudest, but against us they always turned up.
One step to go
and then FC Bayern are in their final,
in their home.
There was real fire in it.
You certainly felt it.
Bayern line up exactly how they started in Munich.
We said before, the entire back four
are on yellow cards, but that can't be a topic.
The atmosphere was fired up.
It's not that easy to play there, it has to be said.
Real really went for it in the early stages.
It felt like U9s playing against pros.
It was extreme.
Xabi Alonso was pinging the balls diagonally to Ronaldo and Di Maria.
I thought:
“Wow, here we go!"
Di Maria,
Handball or not? Alaba.
Well yes,
the ball hits me on the hand.
I slip
and obviously prop myself up.
A normal reflex.
I think the ball would've gone anywhere.
In my opinion, David can do very little about that.
He's even sliding away a bit. The hand is down on the ground.
No idea. I didn't understand why the referee pointed to the spot.
It starts how it wasn't meant to start.
Was bitter, was bitter.
It wasn't a deliberate handball and
I'm not sure you have to give it.
But it was so.
What will the great Ronaldo do?
Cristiano tricked me.
Yes, then it was already looking bad for us at the Bernabéu.
Bayern just need to get over this now.
They have to get into this game for a start.
Plus a yellow for Alaba.
That means he's out of the potential final.
I knew straight away, yes.
As soon as he shows me the yellow card,
a world probably collapsed somewhere inside me.
You could see how upset he was about it.
The penalty is one thing,
but as a player you can often put that behind you quickly.
But a yellow card like that,
and you know, if we get to the final, I'm suspended.
That's obviously tough,
most of all for the player but also for the team.
But at the same time, I can still remember saying to myself:
"Okay, David, you can't help the team in the potential final.
Make this game your final now."
Alaba,
Alaba.
Wonderful play from Alaba!
Brilliant from Alaba. Robben!
He misses it again, like in Dortmund!
Jupp Heynckes said before the game:
"We have to manage one thing, and that's survive the first 10 minutes.
It's hell. In the first 10 minutes they'll overrun us."
This has to be the end of it now! Not like that, you can't play like that!
After 10 [ed. 14] minutes it was 2-0 to Real Madrid.
You can't play like that, otherwise you'll go down here.
The Bernabéu went crazy, you could only see the white flags.
You were stunned in the first 10 minutes
and could've also cried.
It then wasn't so easy to carry on playing because
in theory there are teams who would then,
especially against Real Madrid for example, roll over.
But even in that moment, I have to say,
the team stayed completely calm.
The way the second leg started, in the eyes of inexperienced people,
it would be job done.
For me it was never job done.
Because one goal would put everything in place.
The way we performed as a team, as we did the whole year,
we formed a spirit, a team spirit but also a character within the team.
Luckily they went so fast, with the crowd too,
that they then had a break in the game.
And we came back with the penalty,
which I won.
It was clear
that Arjen was taking it.
That also shows his confidence.
Arjen had the experience, and he also played at the Bernabéu himself.
When you take, you take responsibility and
you have to handle that.
Above all, it's a mental thing.
That also characterises him, having that courage,
especially after the penalty he missed against Dortmund,
to then take that penalty kick, that's Arjen Robben.
And with that the game was reset to zero.
In 2010 I was feeling
we are unbeatable.
In that semi-final
I was feeling exactly the opposite.
Arjen scored the penalty, and then
it was a game of fears.
A bit of feeling out,
not too much risk, and then it went to extra time.
And that's when it starts to take it out of you.
The game was very open. Overall it went back and forth.
It wasn't like one team completely parked the bus.
It was exhausting.
Then I got my stupidest yellow card.
It was a yellow card, there were a lot of fouls.
It wasn't actually that yellow card that bothered me.
The card in the first leg bothered me
because for me it wasn't a yellow card.
And then the yellow card came in the 105th minute,
and I knew at that moment:
“Shit, we're going to the final." I felt that.
“But I won't be there!“
Luiz Gustavo was then also shown a yellow card.
You knew already,
okay, if we win here, these guys won't be involved in the final.
That made them work even harder because they knew that
it's their last Champions League game of the season.
I was waiting
for the extra time to be more aggressive.
But then extra time didn't bring much
and we go to penalties.
I was fired up.
I was determined to win this penalty shootout for us.
I came forward straight after full time
to take the first one.
Yeah, I'd said
to myself an hour earlier:
"I want to make this game my final and
make this day special for me personally too.“
David Alaba, the 19-year-old.
Brutal. Honestly, I thought I was walking from Madrid to Vienna.
I still remember: I then made the long walk,
the whole stadium whistled, then Iker Casillas is standing in front of you.
When you place the ball down, you're in a tunnel.
You have the ball in front of you,
the goalkeeper and the goal, and then you just wait,
look at the referee before,
for him to blow,
and then: BOOM!
Yes!
I was really relieved afterwards.
He can do no more.
He won't get to be there.
Penalties has to do with talent.
Penalties has to do with the mental approach, with the mental strength.
But as a coach, what can a coach do better than say:
“Cristiano, you take the first,
and Kaká, you take the second.“
Especially when you play or compete against such players —
Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká, Sergio Ramos — whoever it is,
whatever names I list,
you never know what they'll do.
He's actually someone who likes to shoot firmly,
likes to hit it, and that was the corner he'd gone for.
So I thought: "He's not going to put it
in the other corner now, he'll stick with it.“
And I also stuck with it.
Ronaldo versus Neuer, round two.
Neuer! Neuer saves it!
Was unreal. It was really unreal!
And luckily I managed
to remain clear, not slip up.
The danger with me was that I have a high centre of gravity.
In that moment I remained super clear.
You also analysed the previous penalties, looked at how he's converted
in high-profile games in pressure situations or how he's acted.
Come on, man! Come on, hey!
It just comes out from within and at the time I just
got caught up in it, and had that outburst of emotion.
Kaká. Neuer!
Manuel Neuer!
Cristiano and Kaká were two of the best penalty takers of the last decade.
And they both missed.
It was unbelievable.
What is happening? Somebody please pinch me.
And then, yes, I got the very clear pinch pretty quickly.
Casillas saves his first penalty.
Ronaldo and Kaká didn't score. He scores.
Then it was me.
I also thought, it's going well...
Of course I'll take a penalty,
I have no problem with that and see it as my job.
I had a good idea there.
In hindsight I'd still say it was a good idea.
I knew that Casillas dives fairly early,
and had the idea of shooting high down the middle.
Oh, that was badly hit, that was badly hit!
All open again.
We had it all in our hands,
but then Toni also misses. And then I thought to myself: this can't be, so...
Then up steps Sergio Ramos.
Ramos hesitates. Over! Over!
That will come back down somewhere in Madrid city centre.
Honestly,
when I get into this one, I thought: "Come on,
I'm going to win this one.“
Cristiano scores, Kaká scores,
Sergio Ramos scores
and Xabi Alonso scores. Probably we get into the fifth
and the fifth maybe doesn't even take it.
Maybe we are going to win it because these four
are going to score for sure.
I was wrong.
And then up steps Bastian Schweinsteiger.
This “Finale dahoam" is a one-off
in your football career.
Everyone knew what the target for the season was.
As Uli Hoeneß said:
"In May the Champions League final is taking place in Munich, and we have to be there.“
And when you think about it:
Lahm comes from here, Schweinsteiger comes from here, Müller comes from here.
They're all boys from this city.
Getting to experience that in your home city,
representing your home city there.
You see 95 percent
just white shirts in the background.
And...
And I was really...
I have trust, and particularly with Basti that's
a basic trust that I have in him because I know he's just got it.
I knew: if I do this, we're in the final in Munich.
If he scores,
Bayern will be in the final on 19th May in Munich against Chelsea FC.
Schweini,
go!
Schweinsteiger, Schweinsteiger!
FC Bayern are in the final of the UEFA Champions League.
Hasta la vista, Bayern finalista!
It was an incredible feeling that we managed it,
to get to our own stadium.
Basti scores the goal, and our fans were up in the corner,
and you run there from the halfway line.
You said it was the first and only time
that you cried after a game.
Yeah, I did,
of course not on the pitch or in the dressing room,
but driving home, yes.
And when I'm going home already down,
I get a call from Jorge Mendes:
“Do me a favour: go to Cristiano's house because he's dead.“
I told him: “I'm also dead."
But I did it, so...
Prepare yourself, no tears and let's go to Cristiano's house.
He was exactly the way I was: we were destroyed.
It was just crazy for us.
We get through against the most awesome team
and are then in the final.
And then the ball just went in.
At first I totally missed Manu, to celebrate with him,
I didn't care that he ran past me and
showed his beautiful pale body.
It was just important that we'd sealed the thing.
Yes, on the way there I briefly lost my balls,
but then I found them again just in time for the run-up, I must say.
You have to traipse 50 metres there.
Normally you have to sprint, that would've actually been better.
Can there be a nicer moment than this right now?
No, no.
We're all gone.
I also don't know
how I managed 120 minutes, but we're over the moon.
And the way it came about,
we'll never forget this day.
What does this mean for you?
Everything!
That was certainly one of the great moments of my career.
We're in the final, and we're in the final in my home city.
That was certainly...
That was certainly a special touch!
To be honest, I had the feeling on that night
that fate was on Bayern's side,
because the 2010/11 season and the 2011/12 season
were black and yellow domestically.
We won the league,
but we hadn't
won the cup for a relatively long time.
So, we were obviously confident.
I wouldn't say Bayern now had fear.
They're too commanding for that.
But I certainly think they had respect
because they had a huge amount to lose.
Dear spectators at the Berliner Olympiastadion,
DFB CUP FINAL
here come Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich.
Bayern still had this difficult situation that their absolute highlight
was actually a week later, namely the Champions League final.
That made it much tougher for them in terms of focusing,
it must be said.
An aimless ball from Gustavo.
We started brilliantly with the goal from Shin ji.
Third minute, I believe.
We come back through a penalty.
Because of the fact that Arjen is a very strong character,
it was understandable that he went up against me again.
He shot into his favourite corner.
I thought he would change his mind again.
I was wrong this time and he won.
Well, I missed against Dortmund,
and then I scored in the cup final and I scored in the
Champions League semi-final against Madrid.
So, yes...
It was a very even game in the first half.
In fact, in spells Bayern were probably better and more dominant,
and then Mats scores the penalty.
I could've saved that, in my opinion.
But these are situations
that just happen, especially in the cup and cup final.
It's about form on the day.
We make it 3-1 shortly before half-time through Lewy,
who for us in that period was an absolute game changer.
Dortmund are picking them apart on the counter.
You know that Bayern have a lot of quality
and they then fought back.
But then it's 4-1.
And then 4-2..
Arjen gave me a pass on the right side.
Then I do what I can.
Then there were a few situations where it could've become 4-3.
So, it was a game on a knife edge.
There were certainly moments in the game
where you felt: we're actually better and we can turn the game around.
But we always made a mistake at the wrong time.
Lewandowski, now it's getting awful.
They defeated us in a fashion.
Robert Lewandowski: three goals!
There...
They really showed us up, in a way.
Yes, they were bitter, disappointed, maybe even a bit insulted,
because you don't like losing a final.
I don't think we played that badly.
I mean, Dortmund just played well and ruthlessly capitalised on our mistakes,
and that's how you get the high scoreline of 5-2.
We did sugarcoat it a bit because we said:
The German championship went to Dortmund, the DFB Cup went to Dortmund.
But we always said:
“We're in the Champions League final at home."
We previously lost that penalty shootout in 2010, in Basel...
Hold on...
Bayern versus Basel?
Yes.
And what has (tech got to do with that?
Well now I can say it...