First Press Conference - FC Bayern

Uli Hoeneß presents Ottmar Hitzfeld
Photo: Copyright © 2007 by Mark Zanzig/zettpress

OK, so I had my first official press conference. And it was amazing: about 80 journalists in the very small, confined press lounge of the FC Bayern München. Uli Hoeneß (left) presented the new coach of the soccer club, Ottmar Hitzfeld (middle). Hitzfeld has coached the club before, from 1998 to 2004 and is now going to lead the club through the rest of the German season, "hopefully getting a chance to win the title again". Bayern is #4 right now, and they miss 8 points to the leader, so this will be quite difficult.

The atmosphere was hot and tense, both Hoeneß and Hitzfeld were friendly yet professionally tight-lipped. They would not say anything bad about the former coach, Felix Magath, who by the way signed a contract with the struggling club HSV today.

Anyway, as this was my first offical press conference, I have never seen so many high-end cameras in one single spot (let alone such a small spot). Now I will go through the pictures and select a couple of them for Zettpress.

Photos from the press conference