{"id":221877,"date":"2025-10-18T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221877\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:13:07","slug":"no-longer-qualified-for-the-klassiker-former-bayern-munich-star-thomas-muller-will-be-watching-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221877\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No longer qualified for the Klassiker\u2019 \u2014 former Bayern Munich star Thomas M\u00fcller will be watching from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Bayern Munich star Thomas M\u00fcller was recently asked by Abendzeitung journalist Kilian Kreitmair if he will be watching Saturday\u2019s match between Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. Of course, M\u00fcller had his own tongue-in-cheek way of responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m not a nostalgic guy. I\u2019ve played many such games for FC Bayern in the past. Now I\u2019ve decided to do something else, or rather, I\u2019m no longer qualified for the Klassiker. When I look back, it was wonderful. The present is now the Vancouver Whitecaps,\u201d said M\u00fcller (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1979278964309794896\" rel=\"nofollow\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019m a Bundesliga kid, of course I\u2019ll watch the game and cross the fingers for Bayern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well\u2026that was quite a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">M\u00fcller seems to be happy and fully adjusted to life in Canada. In a sense, he must have already turned the page (cheap way to insert this cover tune from Metallica \u2014 there was no way I was posting the real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qPOTEs_yTJo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>, which is\u2026something).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After an eventful international break, Bayern Munich is back in action \u2014 and what better way to kick off this portion of the Bundesliga schedule than with Der Klassiker vs. Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bavarians have been riding high and have hammered most teams in their path, while BVB has been extremely solid as well. This should make for quite the battle, so let\u2019s get into it. This is what we have on tap for this edition of the Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Preview Show:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bayern Munich star Thomas M\u00fcller was recently asked by Abendzeitung journalist Kilian Kreitmair if he will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[4842,49,48,3673,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-221877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bayern-munich-alumni","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-general","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}