Uli Hoeneß has also asked national coach Hansi Flick to only form the tournament team for the home EM 2024 from now on.
“We are all of the opinion that the time for experimenting should be over. And if he does it well, then it will be fine,” said the former Bayern President in Munich before the world premiere of the RTL series “Gute Freund – The Rise of FC Bayern” about the early days of the club in the Bundesliga.
After the summer break, Flick had to start “breaking in a team that should then play at the European Championships,” added Hoeneß. Bayern would also use the summer break, said the supervisory board member: “We are working hard to ensure that we have a team that plays better football next season than last.”
RTL series about the rise of FC Bayern
The RTL series celebrated its premiere on Monday at the Munich Film Festival. The first three episodes of the six-part series were shown, which dealt with the 60s and 70s – i.e. the time when the club slowly became a company and the friendly players became entrepreneurs and superstars.
The series also shows how the social importance of football changed during this time and how commerce made its entrance. The key year is 1965, the year FC Bayern was promoted to the Bundesliga, the high point being 1974, when the German national football teams won the World Cup with the stars of FC Bayern.
The focus is on icons from the club’s history: Gerd Müller (played by Markus Krojer), Sepp Maier (Paul Wellenhof), Paul Breitner (Jan-David Bürger), Uli Hoeneß (Max Hubacher) and of course the Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer (Moritz Lehmann). Ex-crime scene inspector Maximilian Brückner plays club manager Robert Schwan.
Incidentally, the series is based on the book Good Friends: The True Story of FC Bayern Munich by author Thomas Hüetlin and is now being brought to the screen by David Dietl (King of Germany), the son of the great Munich director Helmut Dietl (1944-2015). brought. You should be able to see the streaming service RTL +.
The Ufa producers Sebastian Werninger and Nico Hofmann say: Everything is there in this story: the great sporting dramas and successes, friendship, love, fame, power and money.
Gute Freunde will be shown at the Munich Film Festival in the New German Television series and will be in the running for the Bernd Burgemeister Television Prize for the best series.