On August 17th, Rainer Berger
, Youth coach of Bayern Munich, the termination without notice on a park bench in front of his house. Jochen Sauer, head of the “FC Bayern Campus” junior academy, puts the letter in his hand – the end after 17 years.
Why the German record champion throws him out does not say there, but he can guess. First the four anonymous letters in which “concerned parents”, as they called themselves, accused Berger of “sadistic” training methods and “racist tendencies”. And then an anonymous person had posted Berger’s chat entries on the Internet. Terms like “Negro”, “Camel driver”, “Filthy Turk” – all of them are actually so popular in a chat group with youth coaches and scouts from FC Bayern who have given themselves the name “Die Arbeiter”. The WDR magazine “Sport Inside” first reported on
afterwards almost every German newspaper: “Racism allegation at Bayern”. Shortly before the Champions League game against FC Barcelona in mid-August, Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stood in front of a Sky camera and announced “immediate consequences”. “We are a club that has always campaigned against racism.” The termination did not surprise anyone anymore, the coach only because it was canceled without notice. No severance pay.
