Former Bayern star
Scholl wants to attack again: return announced
Ex-soccer pro Mehmet Scholl is back. photo
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After a break of several months, Mehmet Scholl spoke up again. The former national player also talks about the Bayern crisis.
Former Bayern star Mehmet Scholl is aiming for a return to the football business. The 52-year-old announced this in the podcast “Einfach mal Luppen” by Felix and Toni Kroos. “I was completely out for a year – three, four, five months ago I felt like watching again,” said the former international in an interview with the Real Madrid soccer star and his brother.
“There’s a lot going on in football at the moment. And I’m interested again – really interested,” said Scholl. “I don’t know in what form I’ll be there again,” said the former international, who won the championship eight times with Bayern Munich.
Scholl was a sought-after football expert, also on German television. The ex-professional also trained the Bayern reserve at times. “I had to look at everything, I have to know what I’m talking about,” said Scholl. He was tired of looking at it all. “Then I realized that I actually mobbed way too much. That’s not me either.” Now he is ready for a new task.
Praise for Salihamidzic
Scholl did not want to get involved in the discussion about the crisis at his former club FC Bayern – he was too far away. “I don’t have enough inside information.” Scholl said of his former team-mate Hasan Salihamidzic, Bayern’s sporting director: “I love Brazzo, he was one of my favorite players – a great guy, with a huge Bayern heart. I think he’s doing a good job.” Salihamidzic is just as eager and committed as a player. “I look at the transfers – and he’s doing a good job.”
Scholl didn’t want to judge the work of CEO Oliver Kahn, with whom he was already on the pitch at Karlsruher SC in the Bundesliga: “With Olli I can’t judge what he’s doing because I have no insight at all into the work of a CEO.”