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Bayern Munich's players warm up during a training session in Valencia, November 19, 2012. Bayern Munich will face Valencia in their Champions League Group F soccer match on Tuesday in Valencia. (Heino Kalis/Reuters)
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Bayern Munich the very model of a modern sports franchise
In the mid ’60s, the executives of a minuscule football club from southern Germany, Bayern Munich, travelled north to Cologne to visit the country’s most successful team. They wanted to learn how to run a professional sports club. And learn they did. Bayern has dominated the Bundesliga, Germany’s professional league, ever since.
