Football: Bayern eager to keep Heynckes

BERLIN: Bayern Munich are eager to offer coach Jupp Heynckes a contract extension following his side’s impressive run with this week’s Champions League win against Manchester City their 10th consecutive victory. Heynckes has a contract with Bayern until 2013 and is in his third stint as Munich boss after coaching the side from 1987-1991 and then stepping in briefly in 2009 after Jurgen Klinsmann was sacked. “Heynckes is a stroke of luck and the perfect coach for Bayern,” Munich’s director of sport Christian Nerlinger told magazine Kicker. “Of course, it’s conceivable that Heynckes stays longer, why not?”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 30^th,  2011.