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Adieu Oliver Kahn

Ze Roberto of Bayern Munich in action


Bayern Munich - 3 v/s Mohun Bagan - 0

This match was the formal exit of one of the great goalkeepers of all times-Oliver Kahn. He was replaced by Michael Rensing in 55th minute, signalling the end of a carrer of more than two decades. Kahn's grand exit was witnessed by more than 120,000 spectators in the field. During the break he was gifted a miniature football with 8648 diamonds in it.

Striker Zan Schlaudraff and Ze Roberto scored in the 1st half and again Schlaudraff scored his 2nd and team's third in the 55th minute. 2 red cards was shown in this exhibition match. In the 84th minute Bayern's Breno and Mohun Bagan's Branco was shown the red cards. A 82nd minute shot by Lalkamal Bhowmick of Mohun Bagan hit the bar and went out of play.

Apart from this incident, Kolkatans witnessed a memorable football match and the exit of one of the celebrated golakeepers of the world.

Bayern Munich: Oliver Kahn (Michael Rensing 55); Breno, Christian Lell, Uwe Schlottner, Andreas Ottl, Mark van Bommel, Ze Roberto (Taygun Kuru 77), Jose Ernesto Sosa (Diego Contento 46), Viktor Bopp (Gianluca Simari 68); Toni Kroos, Jan Schlaudraff.

Mohun Bagan: Sangram Mukherjee (Chirodeep Chattopadhyay 89); Habibur Rehman Mondal (Naveen Kumar 70), Anand Vasin, Rakesh Masih, Rahul Kumar; James Singh, Lalkamal Bhowmick, S. James Singh, Ishfaq Ahmed, Henry Gangte (Tapan Maity 59); P.C. Lalawmpuiya (Branco Cardozo 64).