After a factual meeting of FC Bayern Munich, it broke out of Uli Hoeneß. He called out to a Qatar critic: “This is the Bayern Munich football club and not the general assembly of Amnesty International.”
Bayern member Michael Ott, who has wanted to see the sponsorship by the Gulf state ended for years, spoke of “bad words” that the honorary president had addressed to him. Ott confirmed the wording mentioned above.
He replied that “The football club Bayern Munich should also respect human rights“But Hoeneß didn’t hear that because he “run away again” be.
Ott wanted to submit a spontaneous motion at the tumultuous 2021 annual general meeting to have the members vote on FC Bayern’s sponsorship contract with the state airline Qatar Airways, which was very controversial among some Munich fans. The presidium around Herbert Hainer did not allow that at the time.
On Saturday evening (October 15, 2022), Ott asked President Hainer, who was re-elected with a significantly weaker result than in the previous year, directly whether he would extend the contract – as of now. “I can’t answer that question with a yes or no today”, replied Hainer. The president considered the appearance of the critical club member Ott in the current meeting to be okay.
“Tendency to extend”
From the statements made by the club management around Kahn and Hainer, he had rather “the tendency to lengthen” of the partnership with the Qatari airline, Ott said. Finally, the question of plan B came from those responsible “circumvented” been. He complained that FC Bayern on the part of Qatar “instrumentalised” will. That is from his point of view “unacceptable”.
CEO Kahn pointed out in his speech “Progress on labor rights and human rights” in the World Cup host country Qatar. FC Bayern also have a part in this. According to Ott, the fans are more likely to make a difference with their criticism in the emirate, where the World Cup will take place from November 20th to December 18th.