Euro glory still evades Bayern boys
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May 21, 2012, Monday
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ANOTHER Champions League final, another defeat.
Time is running out for Bayern Munich's home-grown talent to claim the top prize in European club football and cement their status as a golden generation.
Bayern had set its sights on the Champions League in December 2010 when club president Uli Hoeness mapped out a target of lifting the trophy in its own stadium in 2012. But 18 months later, that dream turned into an "absolute nightmare".
Bayern started with five youth academy products in the side - captain Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Thomas Mueller and Diego Contento - and despite dominating much of Saturday's game could manage only a 1-1 draw with Chelsea before it was beaten in a penalty shootout.
The German side has now lost two Champions League finals in the last three seasons.
"What happened to us is an absolute nightmare," said Bayern sports director Christian Nerlinger. "The disappointment has gone very deep. It is like a bad movie and it will be very difficult to digest this defeat."
Bayern had hoped to ease the pain of a second successive season without a domestic trophy by winning the Champions League, a title that would've lifted Lahm and Schweinsteiger on a par with other club greats like Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller.
Time is running out for Bayern Munich's home-grown talent to claim the top prize in European club football and cement their status as a golden generation.
Bayern had set its sights on the Champions League in December 2010 when club president Uli Hoeness mapped out a target of lifting the trophy in its own stadium in 2012. But 18 months later, that dream turned into an "absolute nightmare".
Bayern started with five youth academy products in the side - captain Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Thomas Mueller and Diego Contento - and despite dominating much of Saturday's game could manage only a 1-1 draw with Chelsea before it was beaten in a penalty shootout.
The German side has now lost two Champions League finals in the last three seasons.
"What happened to us is an absolute nightmare," said Bayern sports director Christian Nerlinger. "The disappointment has gone very deep. It is like a bad movie and it will be very difficult to digest this defeat."
Bayern had hoped to ease the pain of a second successive season without a domestic trophy by winning the Champions League, a title that would've lifted Lahm and Schweinsteiger on a par with other club greats like Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller.
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