Bayern Munich have fired coach Jurgen Klinsmann
and appointed Jupp Heynckes for the final five games of the
Bundesliga season.
Klinsmann's fate was sealed after a meeting with club
chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, general manager Uli Hoeness and
director Karl Hopfner on Monday.
He has been in charge of the defending Bundesliga champions
since last July, but failed to take the club to the top of the
table.
Saturday's 1-0 defeat at home to Schalke left the club three
points adrift of league leaders Wolfsburg with five games of the
season to go.
Rummenigge claimed the change at the helm was necessary due to
disappointing recent results.
He said: "It was a difficult decision, but the results from the
last weeks, the way they came about and especially the situation
five rounds before the end of the season forced us to act due to
due our responsibility towards the club.
"With Jupp Heynckes and (assistant) Hermann Gerland we have two
experienced coaches, to whom we have handed the management of the
team until the end of the season."
Heynckes, 63, who was Bayern head coach from 1987 to 1991, will
take over from Tuesday and will be assisted by Gerland, who has
been coaching the reserve team since 2001.
