With a 5-0 win against Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen secured the Bundesliga championship title for the first time on Sunday evening. It is the first time in eleven years that a team other than FC Bayern Munich has managed to become German champions. This is also making headlines internationally. The press reviews:
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Writes in Spain Sports world: “Bayer Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso is already a legend.” In the Brand it says: “What neither Borussia Dortmund nor RB Leipzig managed at the time, Bayer Leverkusen managed: to end the tyranny of Bayern.”
And the Spanish one Sport writes: “A year and a half to bury 119 years of history. A year and a half to lead a broken, identityless and submerged team into a dimension that it had only dreamed of in its wildest dreams. A year and a half to take over the whole of Germany to say that there is something more in the Bundesliga than Bayern.”
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“Fans stormed out to celebrate before the final whistle”
The title is also making headlines in Great Britain. In the Guardian it says: “A new reality took shape, a separation between past torments and present fantasies, between the Leverkusen that exists now and the Leverkusen that will never exist again.”
Die Sun writes: “Fans rushed to celebrate before the final whistle as Bayern Leverkusen sealed their first-ever Bundesliga title with a 5-0 win over Werder Bremen. Incredibly, Xabi Alonso’s men ended Bayern Munich’s 12-year grip on the crown without playing a game to lose in the entire Bundesliga season.”
“Undefeated to the championship trophy”
In Swiss Daily Gazette
it says: “The Bundesliga has rarely seen a better champion (…) The club has freed the league from the yoke of FC Bayern Munich, from the paralyzing superiority of an FCB, which had recently won the title eleven times in a row.”
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The Blick writes: “Unbeaten to the championship trophy. Wirtz hat trick and Xhaka dream goal secure Leverkusen the title. Bayern’s dominance in the Bundesliga is over.” At 7:19 p.m. “all dams were finally broken” in the BayArena: “Bayer Leverkusen beat Werder Bremen 5-0 and were crowned German champions. For Leverkusen it is the first Bundesliga title in the club’s history. The joy of the team, the Staff and the fans? Indescribable! Thousands storm the field before the final whistle and cheer with their heroes.”
In the French The Team it says: “Bayer Leverkusen has not trembled. Unbeaten since the start of the season in all competitions (43 games), Xabi Alonso’s team converted their first match point on Sunday against Werder Bremen (5-0) and won history with their first championship title in Germany “Winning the championship after eleven years of Bavarian hegemony is one thing, it’s another thing to be crowned with five match days before the end.”
“A success that has been waited for 120 years”
The Parisian
writes: “A historic achievement to which coach Xabi Alonso, who has completely revolutionized this team, is anything but a stranger.” In the Italian Corriere dello Sport it says: “A success that has been waited for for 120 years.” Xabi Alonso’s team “completed an extraordinary journey with 25 wins and 4 draws in 29 league games: 79 points, 16 more than Bayern Munich and Stuttgart, who won their games yesterday, which makes today’s triumph at the BayArena even sweeter. ”
And Corriere della Sera writes: “Bayer celebrates. A letter changes, but that changes the world. The ‘Neverkusen’, so called because they have never won anything significant in their history (just two cups in 120 years), defeated Werder Bremen 5-0.”
With a 5-0 win against Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen secured the Bundesliga championship title for the first time on Sunday evening. It is the first time in eleven years that a team other than FC Bayern Munich has managed to become German champions. This is also making headlines internationally. The press reviews:
Writes in Spain Sports world: “Bayer Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso is already a legend.” In the Brand it says: “What neither Borussia Dortmund nor RB Leipzig managed at the time, Bayer Leverkusen managed: to end the tyranny of Bayern.”
