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29.07.2002 | Long after Monday morning training had come to an end,
Ottmar Hitzfeld and Oliver Kahn were still out on the field, locked
in conversation. However, the subject is likely to remain a secret -
although the keeper's finger, injured in the World Cup final, was
certainly not the focus of the discussion.
Goalkeeping coach Sepp Maier has been putting Kahn through his paces
every day since his return from holiday, despite the netminder still
feeling some pain from the injured joint. "I'm not sparing him at all,"
Maier said on Monday, "it will hurt for a little while yet. But if he
waited until the pain goes away, it might be February."
Perhaps the Bayern coach and his captain were simply analysing the
side's current state of readiness for the new term. During Friday's
friendly against SC Verl, the Germany goalkeeper had loudly voiced his
dissatisfaction at events taking place in front of him. "What the
hell's going on. Pull yourselves together," he yelled all too audibly
at one point.
"Of course, you could say that all the friendlies we are playing at the
moment are worthless," the 33 year-old explained on Monday. But at the
same time he warned: "It often enough happens that the way it is in pre
-season training is how it is in the first league game."
Just as last season, the World Club Cup holders must travel to Borussia
Monchengladbach on opening day. And a year ago, the newly-crowned
Champions' League winners went down 1-0 to the promoted side from the
Bokelberg. Kahn said: "The three points we dropped in Gladbach followed
us around for the whole season."
After a "season spent consolidating at the highest level," as the Bayern
netminder described the year following the Champions' League success in
Milan, he said he was expecting honours to return to the Sabener Strasse
this term. "From now until the season starts, we need good results. Each
and every one of us needs to play to his personal limit."
Kahn drew parallels with world class performers from other disciplines,
citing Lance Armstrong and Michael Schumacher by name. The former emerged
victorious from the Tour de France for the fourth time in succession on
Sunday, while the latter has just celebrated a championship hat-trick in
Formula One. "These are people who live for their sport.
They are extraordinary characters, and we can orientate ourselves on them
in terms of discipline and ambition," the club captain declared.
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