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Bundesliga If they win DFL-Supercup and Club World Cup
FThe history of soccer is littered with sides that stand out from the rest. Examples include the Brazilian side of the 1970s, AC Milan by Arrigo Sacchi, that inspired Holland and Tiki-Taka kings of Spain, but there are many more to name.
Pep Guardiola’s generation at Barcelona are a more recent example, a group that peaked on December 19, 2009, completing an unprecedented sextet in a calendar year.
Neither side had done it before them, and no one has since, at least not yet.
Now however Bayern Munich are establishing themselves as a worthy mention among that group and are threatening Barcelonathrone.
The Bavarians, following their UEFA Super Cup win this week, they already have four to their name on top of their Bundesliga Title, DFB-Pokal and Champions League win.
However, due to COVID-19, 2020 Club World Cup It will conclude in 2021, which means that the Catalans’ record is safe on a technicality.
Other great teams in soccer history have dreamed of sweeping everyone in a calendar year.
Guus Hiddink oversaw a great team in the Netherlands, won the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and were crowned Kings of Europe in Stuttgart by beating Benfica on penalties.
A young Ronald Koeman was a member of his squad.
However, PSV never had their sights on a sextet, as there was no Super Cup in the Netherlands between 1950 and 1991.
The absence of the Scottish Super Cup and the absence of the UEFA Super Cup prevented Jock Stein’s side from doing what Barcelona would do 40 years later.
But they won the Scottish League Cup, the Scottish Cup, their national league title and the European Cup itself by beating Inter 2-1 in the final.
Sir Alex Ferguson conquered it all with the English giants, but 1999 was a special year even by his high standards, winning four titles in the calendar year.
They raised the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Intercontinental Cup.
Arsenal, Lazio and Tottenham eliminated them in other competitions, preventing them from taking seven places to close the millennium.
Johan Cruyff’s legendary team fell short, but not because of him, rather because there was no Dutch Super Cup.
They dominated them at the national level by winning the Eredivisie and the national cup, as well as conquering Europe – European Cup and European Super Cup – as well as the Intercontinental Cup.
José Mourinho tried to replicate the success of his arch enemy just one year after Pep’s Barcelona was the team to beat, but Real Madrid prevented him by taking him from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza to the Spanish capital.
The Portuguese had created a team that was the antithesis of Barcelona and even eliminated them from the Champions League.
Inter won Serie A, the Coppa Italia and the Champions League with Mourinho, in addition to collecting the Italian Super Cup and the Club World Cup with his successor Rafa Benítez, but Atlético de Madrid ended their dreams of being a sextet in the Super Cup. Europe August.
If any club thought they could have beaten that 2009 achievement, it was Barcelona itself and it was close.
Luis Enrique’s Barcelona, driven by Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez, won LaLiga Santander, the Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup, but Athletic Club won the Spanish Super Cup .
The Bavarians have had big ambitions before under Jupp Heynckes.
They won the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the Champions League that season, but with the arrival of Pep Guardiola they fell a bit, being defeated by Borussia Dortmund in the DFL-Supercup before being crowned world champions that same year.
Now, however, Bayern are back. They will face Dortmund again in the DFL-Supercup and hope they learned their lesson seven years ago.
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