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Bayern give thanks to resigned club doctor Mueller-Wohlfahrt

Xinhua, April 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bayern Munich accepted the resignation of club doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt with regret, the German giants said in an statement on the clubs official homepage on Friday.

One day after the 72-year-old Bayern club doctor and his whole staff stepped down out of thin air Bayern Munich reacted with an official statement top confirm the resignation.

Mueller-Wohlfahrt saw the bond of trust damaged as "the medical department inexplicably was blamed for the defeat" due to a long injury list after the Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Porto. Bayern lost on the road 3-1 and had to do it without Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Medhi Benatia, Javi Martinez, David Alaba and Bastian Schweinsteiger.

German media assumes that the club doctor and Bayern's CEO Karl Heinz Rummenigge argued about the long injury list following the 3-1 loss to Porto on Wednesday.

Nevertheless, Bayern Munich thanked the club doctor, who was since 38 years part of the German record champions. The club wrote its official homepage: "FC Bayern Munich took, with regret, note of the decision of club doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt, to step down from all his medical activities for the club. Specifically doctor Mueller-Wohlfahrt but also his team have done an incredible job for the club and its players in recent years."

The Bavarians soon want to introduce a new club doctor, in the meantime doctor Volker Braun will be in charge of the Bayern players.

The Bundesliga front-runners encounter 7th placed Hoffenheim at the 29th round on Saturday. Endite