I wanted no one to tell me when to leave - outgoing Bayern Munich president Hoeness

Record ID: 1429467

  • Title: I wanted no one to tell me when to leave - outgoing Bayern Munich president Hoeness
  • Date: 30th August 2019
  • Summary: BAD WIESSEE, GERMANY (FILE - MARCH 14, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF HOENESS' CHALET NEAR LAKE TEGERNSEE, SOME 50 KM SOUTH OF MUNICH
  • Embargoed: 13th September 2019 13:32
  • Keywords: Bayern Munich Uli Hoeness retires retirement president
  • Location: MUNICH & BAD WIESSEE, GERMANY
  • City: MUNICH & BAD WIESSEE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Soccer,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA004AUESEV3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: German champions Bayern Munich announced a changing of the guard on Friday with former captain Oliver Kahn returning as a board member next year and as CEO in 2022 while longtime president Uli Hoeness confirmed his departure.
    Hoeness announced his retirement after almost half a century at the club as a player, general director and president on the same day the Bavarians appointed another successful former player to succeed current CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
    Kahn, nicknamed 'the Titan' who won eight league titles between 1994 and 2008 with the Bavarians, signed a five-year contract after the board voted unanimously in favour of the move in Thursday's meeting.
    "It is a great honour to initially become a member of the board and then take over the chairman role at Bayern Munich," the 50-year-old Kahn, a former Germany goalkeeper and captain, said in a statement.
    "I am deeply linked with the club that has marked my life considerably."
    When Rummenigge's contract expires on Dec. 31, 2021, Kahn will take over from him as chairman and CEO.
    Hoeness, whose reputation was severely tarnished when he was convicted and imprisoned for tax evasion in 2014, has proposed former Adidas chief Herbert Hainer as his successor at the helm of Germany's biggest and most successful club.
    Rummenigge had joined Bayern as a player in 1974, enjoying a hugely successful decade, and became the club's vice-president from 1991 to 2002 before taking over his current role.
    (Production: Ayhan Uyanik, Michele Sani)
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