{"id":891,"date":"2017-05-18T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/18\/philipp-lahm-sitzt-jetzt-auf-pirlo-und-buffon\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:25:27","slug":"philipp-lahm-sitzt-jetzt-auf-pirlo-und-buffon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/philipp-lahm-sitzt-jetzt-auf-pirlo-und-buffon\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Philipp Lahm is sitting on Pirlo and Buffon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philipp Lahm has already made his armchair for retirement. Better\u00a0said: or rather\u00a0two. For the cover, the Bayern-captain sacrificed parts\u00a0of his jersey collection. Now he is sitting\u00a0on the exchanged football shirts\u00a0of the opponents he played against during his career like Pirlo and Buffon, even teammates\u00a0like Bastian Schweinsteiger, Manuel Neuer and Thomas M\u00fcller can be read on the flocking. In the past, the jerseys hung on a string at the staircase of\u00a0his apartment at the G\u00e4rtnerplatz (City Center), now the two chairs are in Lahm&#8217;s Munich penthouse apartment with 300 square meters in Bogenhausen. I have known Lahm for 15 years now and during this time I\u00a0have\u00a0asked\u00a0him many questions, but he asked\u00a0me only one: for\u00a0a jersey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" src=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_0014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1334\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_0014.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_0014-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_0014-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a serial of\u00a0the 2014 World Cup, SPORT\u00a0BILD visited the old stars of Brazil. Pel\u00e9, Romario, Ronaldo &amp; Co signed the Selecao jerseys for the German national players. For PhilippLahm, we chose Cafu,\u00a0right defender and captain\u00a0of the Brazilian world champions\u00a0in 2002 (already in 1994 he won the world title). After the tournament, Philipp spoke to me. &#8220;Will I still get the jersey?&#8221; he asked to my surprise. I had not expected\u00a0that he really wanted\u00a0it,\u00a0and\u00a0I told him that. &#8220;It was signed for me, wasn\u2019t\u00a0it?\u00a0Then,\u00a0of course, I would like to have it, he insisied. &#8220;After the World Cup, however, I first went on holiday and at the beginning of the new season, I simply did not think about it anymore. Three years later, it was now the perfect\u00a0farewell present. &#8220;The piece will not become an armchair&#8221;, he promises to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember the day when I met Philipp Lahm\u00a0for the first time. Actually, I was at the press conference at the S\u00e4bener street\u00a0.But,\u00a0I still remember who had his performance afterwards: Hermann Gerland! The former amateur coach and today&#8217;s co-coach of the professionals\u00a0did not hesitate\u00a0to present his 18-year-old\u00a0defense talent for the DFB Cup match of the second FCB team against Schalke. &#8220;Normally, I don\u2019t stand\u00a0up here before a player speaks. But now comes one, you should remember for the future &#8230; &#8220;Gerland said as an introduction. Then he left the podium to the young Philipp Lahm.I have no idea what Philipp said on that\u00a0day, the more\u00a0important thing\u00a0was the announcement of Gerland:I rembered that boy! He did not\u00a0make it hard for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/hjs-155_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" src=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/hjs-155_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/hjs-155_s.jpg 548w, https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/hjs-155_s-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI reported on Philipp&#8217;s first substitution in the Olympiastadion for\u00a0the Bayern professionals\u00a0at\u00a0the Champions League game against Lens (3: 3) in November 2002. Together we drove to our first European Championship 2004 to Portugal, as later also\u00a0to all other tournaments up to his World-Cup\u00a0title\u00a0in 2014. He even gave me\u00a0his first captain&#8217;s jersey, when he first played\u00a0in 2009 with the captain-badge in Shanghai. For our serial\u00a0for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he rode on an elephant, which had always been a childhood dream of his.\u00a0For his first steps as a company, he invited me as the first reporter to visit his factory for care products.\u00a0&#8220;May I introduce myself:\u00a0Dr. Lahm,&#8221; he greeted me with his little hat and lab coat. Yes, we had fun. Even if you can never get close to Philipp as a private reporter, we share\u00a0the interest\u00a0for the Austrian band &#8220;STS&#8221;, which we can talk about. However, he separates his professional and private life consistently, which is an advantage for both\u00a0sides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/philipp-lahm-sportbild-sixtus_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/philipp-lahm-sportbild-sixtus_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/philipp-lahm-sportbild-sixtus_s.jpg 758w, https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/philipp-lahm-sportbild-sixtus_s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My pre-announcement that he will end\u00a0his career prematurely and also does not become\u00a0sports director, wasn\u2019t perfectly timed\u00a0for\u00a0Philipp\u00a0, but he has\u00a0reacted professionally\u00a0to it. He knew: I just did my job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Philipp Lahm will end his career on Saturday with the home game against SC Freiburg.\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0sure,\u00a0I&#8217;ll see him again in football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philipp Lahm has already made his armchair for retirement. Better\u00a0said: or rather\u00a0two. For the cover, the Bayern-captain sacrificed parts\u00a0of his jersey collection. Now he is sitting\u00a0on the exchanged football shirts\u00a0of the opponents he played against during his career like Pirlo and Buffon, even teammates\u00a0like Bastian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[81,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfbayern.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}