There is still a bitter feeling in the air after Germany was knocked out of EURO 2024 in the quarterfinals by virtue of a 2-1 loss to Spain in Stuttgart. There was belief in the team again after positive performances in the tournament that got them up to the quarterfinals under Julian Nagelsmann at a time when the team, and the country, so desperately needed a breath of fresh air. Germany had been underperforming for a multitude of different reasons for far too long and looked a shade of their 2014 World Cup winning selves.
However, the world still turns and it is now already time for Germany’s Bayern Munich contingent to look forward to preseason; a preseason that has already started for those Bayern players that were not on international duty earlier this summer with their nations. Vincent Kompany has already taken charge of his first training session as Bayern manager, sparking the true beginning of a new era for the Rekordmeister as they look to shake off their first season without silverware in over a decade.
Bayern already has a packed summer training schedule that includes a trip to South Korea where they will play a friendly against Tottenham Hotspur, but another friendly has recently been added to their preseason agenda. Per the club’s website, they will host a friendly against regional league side Rottach-Egern; a side that they have face a handful of times before. Previous meetings have all favored Bayern, including 27-0 and 23-0 wins in the past, but it is a friendly match just meant to jumpstart the legs for the Bayern players and give the Rottach-Egern players an experience of a lifetime to square up against the superstars.
The friendly will coincide with the beginning of Bayern’s training camp in Tegernsee, a beautiful resort town in Bavaria where Bayern always has a part of their preseason training camp. Unless another friendly is added between now and the start of Bayern’s competitive season, they will have played friendlies against Rottach-Egern, FC Duren, and Tottenham before their first round DFB-Pokal clash at SSV Ulm in what will be Kompany’s first competitive match in charge of the club.