Uli Hoeneß: Double Pass & Bayern Munich Power Dynamics – TV Review

The TV institution “Double Pass” celebrated its 30th birthday on Sunday. Time for a lot of anecdotes and memorable, packed in a birthday program, many believed. Especially since Sender Sport1 had also invited three predecessors in addition to moderator Florian König. “We don’t just want to indulge in the past,” said König as a greeting – despite all the signs should actually be right after 150 minutes.

“Double Pass”, called “Dopa” by the numerous fans: No other show has been so much known for 30 years to speak the football people out of his gut. With phrases and theses at the regulars’ table, two and a half hours in a colorful round parliating and rumbling. Not always well-founded, but with a dash of Höhöhöwitzchen and plenty of finally constricted-painting a potential.

And that’s exactly how it started: the ex-moderator trio Rudi Brückner, Jörg Wontorra and Thomas Helmer was long enough at the “Dopa” micro to not know how their show works. Immediately on the first topic, the national team’s crisis, the old ones delivered: “I become world champion, the Nagelsmann said. I wonder in which sport,” brückner mocked. Wontorra then recalled the 2014 world champions: “Everyone had more quality than the eleven on Thursday.” And Helmer also showed himself strongly: “Nagelsmann has to stop experimenting so much.”

This is how it works in the “double pass”: This is guaranteed that opinion is spoken unfiltered. The “dopa”, the last TV island of the “You will be allowed to say that again” faction. Because there is supposedly more than anywhere else, theses and headlines are reliably delivered. This is exactly what the editorial team had invited to the most reliable producer in German football: Uli Hoeneß.

And the focus increased more and more with increasing duration. Were still somewhat equal to the talks on the subject of the national team and therefore offered space for expert tips to the players of Stefan Effenberg (“Tire your ass!”) And the upstream pure Calmund (“Gas Gas!”), The patron of FC Bayern had two (missing types in football) and three (FC Bayern), before the topics of four (influence of investors) and Five (Max Eberl) was asked almost without exception. The sixth and last topic was Uli Hoeneß himself.

Hoeneß about Eberl, Matthew and the sheikh

“Can you talk about something different from me now?” Asked Hoeneß moderator Wontorra. Mind you after 121 minutes. As before Helmer and Brückner, Wontorra had received another quarter of an hour of broadcasting, but no matter who was the host – the moderator’s gaze always went over his left shoulder, where Hoeneß had slipped deep into his seat and fired his theses.

He confused Newcastle with Nottingham, but was otherwise clearly in his statements: The international transfer market was “like Monopoly: move forward to the castle avenue, then there is a sheikh, and then you can buy.” Loud applause. “The Schlossallee is no longer at Bayern because Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are now playing. And then you have no chance with these crazy excesses. But at some point the sheikhs also have the snout full.” Ullliiiiiiii!

When he was asked – as with every of his visits – to his relationship with Lothar Matthew, after he had last subordinated not to have all the cups in the closet, some fans in the audience gave themselves a fresh white pounding: “We didn’t have much to say because I have not yet found that he has not yet found a new cup.” Uli! Uli! Uli!

At the latest now it was the big Uli Hoeneß show. He rose against the sheikhs, the media, Trump and Lothar, against transfer journalists and a lack of decency in general.

Brückner hooks at Hoeneß

There was only once in between. Brückner, who can still be noted that he had to give up the moderation in 2004 after more than eight years against his will and has been working as if he still had to prove something for “Dopa” relationships, almost investigative how Hoeneß ‘furor fell against the sheikhs with Bayern sponsor Emirates.

Brückner was a bit over it when he put murders about American journalists and Saudi conditions in the United States in the area of ​​the possible, but also set some points, as well as “Spiegel” reporter Markus Feldenkirchen, who mixed political expertise with his passion as (Gladbach) fan.

Brückner also presented a solution for German club football in an international context: relying on youth. “But that takes ten years,” replied Hoeneß. Brückner: “So and? We all still experience that, right?

Another daring contribution, since the age record was easily cracked on this 30th birthday. Hoeneß (73), Helmer (60), expert Alfred Draxler (72), Feldenkirchen (50), Effenberg (57), Podcaster Christoph Kröger (34), König (57), Wontorra (76) and Brückner (70), Calmund (76) were switched on in the round. Very many, mostly old, men in a confined space.

The round would have been a bit of freshness, but it was all about one anyway. And it became a topic himself. His criticism of Bayern sports director Eberl (“Max is quite sensitive”, “Max has to see that he made the big transfers in June, July”) was used very well to question Hoeneß’s own role and expose him.

He supported the allegations that he could not let go of after his resignation as a manager and has a large part in the latent unrest in the club and the lack of strength of his successors, whether wanted or involuntarily. “We are looking for a team. We did that after the resignation of Kalle (Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, i.e. Red.) And I didn’t get it that way,” said Hoeneß and illustrated his self-image: “We cannot intervene if we have the feeling that something is going wrong.”

The program now developed into a Hoeneß psychogram. He did not try to refute that he still saw himself as an operational part of FC Bayern: Not he, not Eberl or Rummenigge would make the transfers, but FC Bayern, so Hoeneß: It is always and still a joint product. In success, as in failure.

Draxler reminded him that Hoeneß as a manager had talked to nobody in and he could work because he was left completely free. Hoeneß then told of Schafkopf evenings, on which he would have regulated the things “with Franz and Kalle”. Even then, this would have been decided jointly. “It would also be good for Max if he finally realizes that this should be spread over several shoulders.” Ullliiiiiii!

Hoeneß doesn’t want to stop

Already in the past it was the jaming audience that had stormed him to still pointer statements. Hoeneß, the man for the beer tent. So also on Sunday: “If certain things don’t go well, I will always open my mouth.” He was now. Also against the critics: “Markus Babbel reads the ‘Bild’ newspaper in the morning and says in the evening. Uli! Uli! Uli!

An end to his work is not in sight and only conceivable under one condition: “If we have the right people in the right positions, we withdraw, the Karl-Heinz and me.” Effenberg supported submissive, once again highlighted his successes and expertise. Hoeneß helped many players, saved clubs. What he meant: he can do that. Above all, the main character of the day was a little. The guest had finally done his service extremely satisfactorily. “This program will deal with the sports journalists for five days,” Orakelt Feldenkirchen, who had long since been forgotten at TV viewers such as Kröger and Draxler. On the last stage of the show, the three guests could no longer even be seen, only returned to the camera for the final wheat beer. The three former moderators had reached the round and had received the places. Only one was allowed to stay where he was: Hoeneß.