{"id":372976,"date":"2026-04-03T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372976\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:00:11","slug":"bayern-munichs-heir-apparent-jonas-urbig-speaks-out-on-succeeding-manuel-neuer-as-germany-legend-considers-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372976\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich&#8217;s heir apparent? Jonas Urbig speaks out on succeeding Manuel Neuer as Germany legend considers retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Urbig demonstrated a mature outlook regarding his potential promotion, focusing on the mental fortitude required to represent a club of Bayern&#8217;s stature. The goalkeeper highlighted his technical suitability for Kompany&#8217;s system, particularly his ability to remain press-resistant during build-up play.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sky.de\/sport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Sky<\/a>, Urbig discussed the possibility of a long-term future as the club&#8217;s primary custodian: &#8220;Whether I&#8217;m the one \u2013 that&#8217;s not my decision. What I can influence is bringing the right mindset and quality and then converting that into something, because FC Bayern is a very big club. I feel that this approach has served me very well so far. Always being mentally prepared to be needed and to be ready to deliver on the pitch. I believe I&#8217;ve managed that well so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent interview, Urbig demonstrated a mature outlook regarding his potential promotion, focusing on the mental fortitude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14532,14537,170,85,46,179065,179066,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-372976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bayern-munich","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-j-urbig","14":"tag-m-neuer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}