Shed Some Tears for Uli Hoeness

April 8th, 2006 | by: WC Bob | Comments Off

Bayern Munich manager Uli Hoeness is not an easy guy to please. Earlier this week he publicly called out Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann for waging “psycho terror” on his keeper Oliver Kahn. He was upset because Klinsmann had not named a number one keeper for the national team and this was making Ollie play poorly for Bayern. Today, a day after Klinsmann named Jens Lehmann his starter, Hoeness lashed out at Klinsmann again before Kahn and his Bayern teammates were drilled 3-0 by Werder.

“To come up with such a decision just a day before the most important game of the second half of the season is very, very unusual,” Hoeness said on Premiere TV before the game.

“We could also have sat down in peace and quiet on Sunday morning in Munich but maybe there was already a plane on the way to California.”

Hoeness is of course pettily pointing out the Klinsmann lives in the US and sometimes commutes to Germany for his gig as national team coach – a rather uncreative slag against Klinsmann if you ask us.

So, let us recap. Hoeness is crying like a baby because his starting keeper isn’t playing well. Kahn is crying like a baby and threatening not to play for Germany at the World Cup. And amazingly Klinsmann comes out as a sympathetic figure who made a difficult but correct decision.

We wonder what Michael Ballack thinks about all this. Maybe we’ll find out next year when he is playing for Chelsea.
He should be quite comfortable playing for a coach that likes to cry.