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Sports News of Saturday, 13 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Bayern's doc with the 'magic hands', Mueller-Wohlfahrt, to retire

Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt

FC Bayern Munich's chief medical officer, Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, is set to retire after 40 years of service to the German Champions.

The Bavarian club said on Friday that it “very much regrets,” that longest-serving doc at the club will end his activities at the end of June.

Müller-Wohlfahrt, 77, was previously also the Germany team doctor for more than 20 years. He retired from that position after the 2018 World Cup.

Müller-Wohlfahrt, who first started working for Bayern in 1977, become a familiar sight running onto the field with his long silver hair any time there was a stricken player. He was known as “Mull” by the players.

“The whole club and generations of players –- from Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller to Klaus Augenthaler and Bastian Schweinsteiger, to Thomas Müller and Robert Lewandowski — owe very special thanks to Mull,” Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.

Life at Bayern was not all rosy for the veteran doctor; his time at the Allianz Arena suffered two a short interruption after fall-outs with Bayern coaches Jürgen Klinsmann (in November 2008) and Pep Guardiola (in April 2015) during their respective spells in charge.

Müller-Wohlfahrt returned five months later when Klinsmann was fired and replaced by Jupp Heynckes and in November 2017 when Heynckes was back for his fourth stint in charge.

Guardiola later fell out with Müller-Wohlfahrt’s successor, Volker Braun, in similar circumstances, with Braun suggesting the Spanish coach was forcing players back from injury too soon. Müller-Wohlfahrt returned to Bayern

“When I look back on my 40 years at Bayern, I’m happy and very satisfied,” Müller-Wohlfahrt told the club website. “The experiences we’ve had together, the successes, and above all the people that I’ve gotten to know in this club have had a lasting impact on my life. I wish Bayern all the best for the future.”

He isn’t retiring completely just yet. Bayern said he will continue to see patients at his Alter Hof surgery in central Munich, and he is collaborating with a local university clinic on a project to diagnose muscular injuries with artificial intelligence using images taken through magnetic resonance tomography.

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