Watch out Germany, Europe: Bayern Munich with Bauermann think big time

A sleeping giant may have been woken up in the world of German basketball as football superpowers Bayern Munich have brought on German national team coach Dirk Bauermann to coach their basketball team with hopes of becoming a European level club within three to five years.
“It’s very exciting to be part of this kind of project. And the vision is of becoming a European level club in the time frame from three to five years,” Bauermann told heinnews’s David Hein.

The 52-year-old coach said the four-time European football club champions Munich “have brought me in for the long haul”.

“We are happy to welcome to the FC Bayern Munich family the most successful German basketball coach,” Bayern vice president Bernd Rauch told the club’s website after months of talks with Bauermann.

In a survey of the 23,000 Bayern club members, more than 75 percent approved the decision to bring in Bauermann as coach.

Officially, Bauermann agreed to only a one-year contract for the 2010-11 season with the second division ProA side.

And the coach said both sides will use that time to evaluate the other side.

“It will give me time to see if they are willing to invest the resources needed to take the steps needed to reach the lofty goals we have,” Bauermann told heinnews.

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