Has Rummenigge’s wound healed in the meantime?

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge suffered for years from the lost “Finale dahoam”. Has this wound healed now? Otherwise there is a great opportunity in 2025.

When he left as chairman of the board at FC Bayern Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had expressed two wishes.

“Standing on the south stand and watching a game between the fans” was one of the plans that Rummenigge made in June 2021 in the Picture called.

Whether he has put this into practice in the meantime has not been communicated – but it would probably have been made public.

In addition, the 67-year-old wanted to fulfill a dream when he retired – and thus process his greatest trauma. “In 2023 a Champions League triumph at the next final at home,” Rummenigge wished before the Munich final of that year had to be postponed.

“The defeat in the 2012 final in Munich against Chelsea is my only wound that hasn’t healed yet,” admitted the outgoing Bayern boss at the time. It “hurts incredibly”.

Now Rummenigge is back at Bayern Munich. Among the fans he will look after himself his admission to the Supervisory Board probably not mix. And until the end of his trauma – if the wound is still open – the long-time club boss has to be patient.

Because of the pandemic, Istanbul could not act as the organizer in 2021 and 2022 and is therefore on June 10, 2023 hosted the duel between Manchester City and Inter Milan.

2024 the prestigious final at Wembley Stadium in London, before the Allianz Arena in early summer 2025 – after the first CL season in the new format – The venue for the Champions League final.

In 2012, FC Bayern lost the final in their own stadium against Chelsea in a dramatic way.

Didier Drogba equalized Thomas Müller’s opening goal in the 83rd minute shortly before the end, so that the game went into extra time despite Bayern’s overwhelming advantage.

Arjen Robben missed a penalty there, and the Londoners had better nerves in the penalty shoot-out – Ivica Olic and Bastian Schweinsteiger were unable to convert their attempts.

“It’s one of those evenings when you ask yourself: Wouldn’t it have been better if you had stayed at home and not experienced it?” Rummenigge said afterwards at the banquet speech, it was “the worst of all defeats,” he recently emphasized the Evening News.

And yet he watched the “finale dahoam” again every summer – at least until he left as Bayern boss.

“I won’t have to do that to myself in the future. Also a bit of quality of life,” he said at the time table football.

Will Rummenigge deal with it again this summer after his Bayern return?