The first official match of the new coach Vincent Kompany ends with a comfortable 4:0 win in the DFB Cup against SSV Ulm. It is not the game that causes excitement at FC Bayern, but a player who is not even there.
Ulm is actually friendly territory for FC Bayern. Uli Hoeneß comes from Ulm, his parents ran a butcher’s shop there. Hoeneß learned to play football on the Danube, at VfB Ulm, a club that may not have FC Bayern’s fixed-term deposit account because the football department there had to temporarily suspend participation in matches in 2019 due to a lack of players. The connections extend to the present day, with FC Bayern and SSV Ulm currently maintaining a cooperation that, among other things, provides for an exchange of young players.