Bavarian Football Works
Smells like team spirit in Bavaria.
Bayern Munich is off to a roaring start to 2024/25, having won its opening fifteen competitive matches heading into a blockbuster Champions League showdown against Paris Saint-Germain this week. It has been quite a transition from the turbulence of recent years to the steady aura of calm and inevitability the team exudes now under second-year coach Vincent Kompany.
Midfielder and captain-in-waiting Joshua Kimmich reflected on the changes in the wake of Bayern’s latest triumph — a 3-0 stomping of Bayer Leverkusen, the latest other team to wear the Bundesliga crown, with Bayern having deployed a heavily-rotated XI at that.
“When I joined ten years…