Tuesday, 27. June 2023 | SAP Garden: Uli Hoeneß interviewed about the founding myth
Hoeneß: "This is how a wonderful partnership came about".Bayern München's honorary president on the realization of the SAP Garden// INTERVIEWThe SAP Garden provides a new home for EHC Red Bull München and an additional venue for FC Bayern Basketball. Uli Hoeneß explains why the implementation of this major project was comparatively easy.From the outside, the iconic facade of the SAP Garden is already clearly visible. The days until the planned opening of the SAP Gardens in 2024 are getting shorter and shorter. This will mark the end, in the foreseeable future, of a process that began many years ago. "What lasts a long time finally becomes good. And I am convinced that in the end we will have an even better project than we had previously imagined," Hoeneß is also looking forward to the new arena.
Hoeneß and Mateschitz: a handshake deal
After a meeting in Salzburg between Dietrich Mateschitz, who has since sadly passed away, and Bavaria's honorary president, it was initially unclear whether and how the SAP Garden could be realized at all. However, the question marks quickly vanished into thin air. "After 14 days, his emissaries were at my office and said, 'A nice greeting from Mr. Mateschitz. We'll do it,'" says the 71-year-old, looking back on the early days of the project.
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And that was the end of the story. "That happens very rarely in our society. More or less commitments on a handshake. Normally, it's common for there to be 25 lawyers doing things," Hoeneß explained. "And with us, they shook hands after the second conversation. And since then, there hasn't really been a major problem that has taken longer than an hour to resolve," he continues.
The city of Munich gives its "go"
Christine Strobl, former mayor of the Bavarian capital, was also enthusiastic about the SAP Garden right from the start. Hoeneß' interim stay in prison did nothing to change that. "She then said to me, 'I figured they'd come right to me when they got back.' We didn't bury the project, we just put it aside,'" the Munich native recalls. After his return from prison in February 2016, however, a very special letter reached him beforehand. In the letter, Mateschitz declared that he was still interested in working with the company. Hoeneß: "Those are the days when you have tears in your eyes when you get letters like that."
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The implementation of the SAP Garden picked up speed again and continued to intensify. "This is how a wonderful partnership came into being. Between Red Bull, FC Bayern and the city of Munich. You could always feel the spirit of this development in all these discussions and also in the decisions," said the long-time president of the German soccer record champion FC Bayern München.
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