Bayern Munich bids farewell to Oliver Kahn with a 3-0 win

Adieu Oliver Kahn

Ze Roberto of Bayern Munich in action


Bayern Munich - 3 v/s Mohun Bagan - 0

This match was the formal exit of one of the great goalkeepers of all times-Oliver Kahn. He was replaced by Michael Rensing in 55th minute, signalling the end of a carrer of more than two decades. Kahn's grand exit was witnessed by more than 120,000 spectators in the field. During the break he was gifted a miniature football with 8648 diamonds in it.

Striker Zan Schlaudraff and Ze Roberto scored in the 1st half and again Schlaudraff scored his 2nd and team's third in the 55th minute. 2 red cards was shown in this exhibition match. In the 84th minute Bayern's Breno and Mohun Bagan's Branco was shown the red cards. A 82nd minute shot by Lalkamal Bhowmick of Mohun Bagan hit the bar and went out of play.

Apart from this incident, Kolkatans witnessed a memorable football match and the exit of one of the celebrated golakeepers of the world.

Bayern Munich: Oliver Kahn (Michael Rensing 55); Breno, Christian Lell, Uwe Schlottner, Andreas Ottl, Mark van Bommel, Ze Roberto (Taygun Kuru 77), Jose Ernesto Sosa (Diego Contento 46), Viktor Bopp (Gianluca Simari 68); Toni Kroos, Jan Schlaudraff.

Mohun Bagan: Sangram Mukherjee (Chirodeep Chattopadhyay 89); Habibur Rehman Mondal (Naveen Kumar 70), Anand Vasin, Rakesh Masih, Rahul Kumar; James Singh, Lalkamal Bhowmick, S. James Singh, Ishfaq Ahmed, Henry Gangte (Tapan Maity 59); P.C. Lalawmpuiya (Branco Cardozo 64).

Oliver Kahn's Last "Venue"

Oliver Kahn in Kolkata

Salt Lake Stadium aka Yuva Bharati Krirangan

Kolkata Gears Up For The Final Match of Oliver Kahn

Actually, I am bit lucky to witness Oliver Kahn's last international match. His team Bayern Munich will be playing an exhibition match today in my city, Kolkata (India), starting from 18.50 IST. Apart from Oliver Kahn, Kolkatans will witness the magic and power of European football and see the skills of other players like Van Bommel, Ribery, Ze Roberto to name a few.
The stadium where they will be playing has a capacity of 130,000 and its the world's second largest stadium. Local name of the stadium Yuva Bharati Krirangan. Bayern Munich will be playing against Mohun Bagan, India's National Club, which happens to be my rival club (my football club: Kingfisher East Bengal, which happens to have results against foreign clubs).

Probable Bayern Munich team: Oliver Kahn, Jose Roberto Da Silva (jr), Andreas Ottl, Mark van Bommel, Jan Schlaudraff, Jose Ernesto Sosa, Michael Rensing, Bernd Dreher, Christian Lell, Toni Kroos, Breno Vinicius Borges, Dominik Rohracker, Taygun Kuru, Uwe Schlottner, Viktor, Bopp, Gianluca Simari, Diego Enrique Pizarro Bosio, Diego Contento

Probable Mohun Bagan : Sangram Mukherjee, Habibur Rehman Mondal, Rakesh Mashi, Anand Vasan, Rahul Kumar, James Singh, Henry, Isfaq Ahmed, James Singh (jr), Lalkamal Bhowmick, P.C. Lalawmpuia

Match will start 18.50 today...catch you tomorrow for this and other sports updates.