Bayern boycotts Red Bull’s plan with its new pavilion

Barcelona plays this Tuesday at the Palau Blaugrana (8:00 p.m., Dazn) for much of its season against Bayern Munich German in the fifth and final match of the Euroleague playoff semifinals. Whoever wins in the Barça fiefdom will go to the Final Four. There, in Belgrade, next Thursday, May 19, Real Madrid awaits in the semifinals for a place in the grand final on Saturday, May 21.

A scenario to the limit that few expected: Barça was (and still is) the big favorite in the playoff series after closing the regular phase in first place with 21 wins in 28 games. Bayern close it with a balance of 14-14 and the feeling of false eighth: The elimination of the three Russian teams (CSKA Moscow, Unics Kazan and Zenit Saint Petersburg) due to Ukraine’s invasion of their country gave them a seemingly utopian possibility at the end of February.

The SAP Garden, the future

Despite this role of victim, the Germans have taken the tie to the limit after beating the Catalans twice. “In the beginning I didn’t have the feeling that the team grew together. But he joined. The two wins against Barcelona were unique”, assures Uli Hoeneß, former Bayern soccer coach and honorary president of the club, in a interview on the german portal BR24.

The first victory, in the series premiere, was at the Palau; the second, in the fourth game, in an Audi Dome that will be replaced by the SAP Garden as the home of the Munich next year after almost two years of construction. “When there are 6,000 spectators, it’s great; when there are 12,000, it’s even better. I expect a new boost for basketball when we finish it“, keep going.

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The pavilion, with capacity for 12,000 spectators for basketball, is a project of the German club and Red Bull through Dietrich Mateschitz, its owner. “He told me to build them together and I told him: ‘Mr Mateschitz, we will, but you have to pay”, recalls the honorary president of a club that also has one of the best stadiums on the Old Continent: the Allianz Arena.

Red Bull’s entry into the project brought a push and pull to name the new Munich pavilion. SAP, the German software multinational, finally took the naming right, despite Mateschitz’s attempts to get Red Bull to sponsor the new sports venue: “He wanted a Red Bull Arena, but I told him: ‘That won’t work with our fans.”.

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