Kahn back at Bayern

BAYERN MUNICH’S changing of the management guard takes a further step from tomorrow when former goalkeeper Oliver Kahn joins the board at the record German champions.

Kahn long cleared his locker in the changing rooms and will now have his own office in a new role which should lead to him succeeding chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as club chairman at the end of 2021.

Kahn will work closely with Rummenigge and the new president, Herbert Hainer, after long-time president Uli Hoeness had seen the former Germany international as the perfect fit for a management role to help guide the club in the post-Hoeness era.

Sport director Hasan Salihamidzic, like Kahn, Rummenigge and Hoeness a former Bayern player, is expected also to join the board in the middle of 2020.

“Oliver will bring in his experience as a former world-class player and now also a well-connected businessman. He will enrich us. We will work well together,”

Rummenigge said.

It is more than a decade since Kahn played his last match for Bayern, where he chalked up 429 league apperances, while also winning 86 caps for Germany.

“I am deeply connected to the club,” he said recently. “It has shaped my life very much. I experienced a lot, emotional moments, ups and downs.”