

Bayern Continue With The Touching Trend. Kinda.
By: chris | May 15th, 2008
It’s been a touching week with the news that Oliver Kapo handed a boot boy the keys to a Mercedes because he didn’t have a pair of shoes for him to take home, and Olof Mellberg having 3200 Aston Villa shirts custom made for the travelling fans to his final AV game before leaving for the northwest corner of Italy. Continuing along this line, Bayern Munich agreed to play a friendly with 5th division side Darmstadt yesterday in an attempt to help them avoid bankruptcy. Nice, right? Sure. At least it was until they put 11 goals past them.
Who does that?
The game ended 11-5, which means Darmstadt may have been able to make a game of it with Zenit today, seeing as how they only managed to put 4 past Bayern, unlike a 5th division side.
Of course, given that this is a 5th division German side seriously struggling financially, you could probably make the argument Luca Toni damn well coulda woulda shoulda put 25 past Darmstadt all by his lonesome. So maybe 11 isn’t all that bad. But they couldn’t have just made it close? Eight would’ve been sufficient.
Hero, or villain, depending on how you look at it, was Jan Schauldraff, who scored 7 goals. One more and he would’ve had as many tallies as he did appearances for Bayern this season. I suppose that’s a not too subtle way of saying “Hey! Look at me! I can play!”. Let’s just hope he sent sympathy cards out to the Darmstadt players after the match. (Think he’ll be sending out highlights of this one when he’s looking for a new employer this summer?)
Next up for Duisberg is Bayer Leverkusen, who will also be doing their part to help out the minnows. The funny part of all this is that you’d think Darmstadt have a long and storied history making them a romantic side fallen on hard times. Not the case at all. They’ve only managed two season in the top flight – and that was over 25 years ago. So this one’s truly for the little people.
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