Current Real Madrid superstar David Alaba was the last top talent squeezed out of Bayern Munich’s youth campus, the FC Bayern Campus, for a long time.
After Alaba’s sudden rise to stardom in 2012, the Campus went embarrassingly quiet. To counteract this lack of young talent, Bayern spent hundreds of millions of euros on a new Bayern campus in 2017, aiming to revitalize their youth development. At first it was slow progress, but the results are now starting to show .
It is this progress that Bayern youth graduate Frans Krätzig aimed to explain, as he sat down to hold an interview with a representative of Bayern Munich’s official website. Bayern’s first team boasts the likes of Jamal Musiala, Jošip Stanišić and Aleksandar Pavlović from the FC Bayern Campus, while Armindo Sieb, Paul Wanner and more and impressing out on loan.
This prompted the interviewer to ask Krätzig about his view on the Campus. How does the VfB Stuttgart loan player rate the work done? Krätzig’s response is surprisingly in depth for a guy who was asked to talk about his parent club and employers.
“If you look at the Bundesliga or even abroad, the Campus has recently produced some good players. I think the Campus needed a bit of time. You couldn’t expect talent to emerge immediately after it was built in 2017. It also had to develop a bit, and the players also needed time to develop. But there are some players with whom I boarded who are now playing at the highest level. You can now see that it’s bearing fruit. It also makes me proud to be one of those players,” said Krätzig.
Krätzig should know. After all, he was one of the many players who joined Bayern in 2017, when the Campus was first opened. He saw the Campus develop, find its’ way and then eventually flourish, growing to the level it is today. And Krätzig will know that, as he takes part in Stuttgart’s Champions League nights this season, that he is one of those players who have proven the quality of the FC Bayern Campus.
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