Bayern Munich CEO Oliver Kahn has commented on reports that he was “ridiculing” Barcelona after the Catalan side drew with the Bayern in the same group in the Champions League.
As soon as the name of Barcelona appeared in the group of Bayern Munich, which also includes the Italian Inter and the Czech Viktoria Plzen, the camera caught a smiling Oliver Kahn, who was present at the lottery ceremony.
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Twitter and Catalan newspapers have interpreted Oliver Kahn’s smile as a kind of mockery of Barcelona, which has been suffering from a Bayern complex in recent years.
But Oliver Kahn, in statements to the German newspaper Bild, denied his mockery of Barcelona, saying: “This explanation is completely out of line.”
The former Germany and Bayern goalkeeper added: “A few weeks ago we left Robert Lewandowski to join Barcelona and it turned out in the draw that we would meet in the Champions League group stage. And this coincidence made me smile. “
Oliver Kahn made no secret of his respect for Lewandowski and Barcelona, noting that these two matches (in the Champions League group stage) will be a feast for football fans and supporters.
It is noteworthy that Bayern beat Barcelona with an excellent result in the last three confrontations between themselves in the Champions League, where the Bayern team beat their Catalan counterpart over and over again in the group stage last season with a single score of 3:0, and Bayern achieved a convincing 8-0.2 victory over Barça in the quarter-finals of the competition in the 2019-2020 season.
Source: agencies