MIA SAN MEISTER!!!

It's only 6 April, but as of Basti's second-half back-heel goal (seriously, that was pretty badass!) earlier, we are officially the league winners for 2012-2013! So, Bayern fans, how are you celebrating? Your blog team here at FC Hollywood is planning on drinking many beers while laughing at the awesome photos of our boys celebrating, followed by saying our prayers for Wednesday's away leg.

Here are a few of our favorite pictures so far...

Vielen Dank, Bayern

Another season has come to an end. Despite the ups and downs (and heart attacks in-between), my love for this team still knows no bounds. And fear not, faithful readers, we'll be here through the Audi Cup (expect a post about the ickyness of having Barca in our stadium) and transfer season (Did you know that *insert BIG NAME TEAM here* wants *insert random Bayern player here*?!?). And when the fall rolls around, we'll be decked out in the BEST.LOOKING.HOME.KIT.EVER. and cheering on our boys to a successful season.

And to the men of FC Bayern, vielen Dank. Our lives are better because of you all.

Danke Bayern.

Sanity has been restored!

+ The new kits are BEE-YEW-TIFUL

- Freiburg why you gotta own goal like that?

+ Mario may need to officially change his name to Golmez

+ Andries Jonker: undefeated

In Bayern related news:

 Mark van Bommel has won titles in four different countries:

• PSV 
• Barcelona (can we pretend this didn't happen)
• FC Bayern
• AC Milan

Everyone chew on that notion. 

I must go back to studying and a fresh pot of coffee is calling my name, a notion, that as you can see, is absolutely thrilling:

An open love letter

To the amazing men of FC Bayern, in light of their 5-1 trouncing of Bayer Leverkusen-

Thank you. I woke up Sunday morning tired and cranky, figuring that I was going to get up pointlessly early and be sadly disappointed once again by a draw or, worse, a loss. But I need to remember not to doubt you all (and not just in that last-minute, save-the-day kind of game manner, where the winning goal is scored in extra time and I've spent the previous 90 minutes worrying). Because Sunday, I fell in love with you all over again.

To borrow a phrase from the ever-fabulous Uli Hoeness, much of this season didn't seem to be very fun. But yesterday, it was fun all around (unless, you know, you were cheering for Leverkusen, which I doubt you were). And so, I write this open love letter, because I just can't not talk about that match. Oh, and apologies for the fact that most of this will be in English (as my German is still limited to things that are best directed at referees, I think I'll refrain from accidentally insulting any of you).

Young Mr. Muller, you were everywhere and it was brilliant to watch. Seriously. You kept creating chances and pushing forward, forcing the other team to make mistakes, and you looked like you were having a blast out there. Danke.

Monsieur Ribery, votre énergie et votre enthousiasme ont changé notre équipe pour le mieux. Merci. Et félicitations pour le but!

M. Van Buyten...Bienvenue à nouveau! Votre taille et votre ténacité ont été manquées. Merci.

Diego Contento, it's good to have you back. Seriously. You were ferocious out there and you made a certain Dutch former captain VERY proud with your tackling. Danke.

Senhor Gustavo, você tem certeza que você não é um zagueiro? Porque você foi brilhante. Obrigada.

Tymo, you are more than deserving of having a cartoon superhero alter ego (or is this your alter ego and you really ARE a cartoon superhero?). Love watching you play, love watching you slide tackle the heck out of people, and love watching you practice your "Who, me?" face. Again, Mark Van Bommel would be VERY proud. Спасибі.

Miro Klose...I know I'm often harsh on you when you're in a Bayern kit (and yet can't get enough of you in an NT kit), but you looked great out there and you were helping create chances. And did you happen to attend an MVB slide tackling seminar? Because you had a couple of Mark-worthy crunchers. Dziękuję.

Kapitan Lahm, what can I saw? You remain flawless, keep us attacking, and you're a heck of a captain. Danke.

Super Mario, can we go ahead and change the spelling of your last name to Golmez? Another hat trick, another day of you showing why you deserve that starting spot. If someone had asked me last season if I ever thought I would come to love you as much as I do, I would have said no. And it's not just about the goals (though, they are helpful); it's your presence and your humility and your utter fabulousness. Danke y gracias.

Basti (I do hope you'll forgive the familiarity), you are and forever will be my favorite player. Despite an injury, you were amazing. You make me love the game more and more with every passing week. I really don't have words for how much I love you. Danke.

And, finally, to the love of my footballing life, a certain Hans-Jorg Butt...You made me fall in love with the game and it is unspeakably good to have you back. I have missed you terribly, drive people crazy talking about you, and am so glad you're back to hold our back line together. I'm going to miss you when you retire. And, for the record, while I'm okay with signing Neuer, I wish we could have several more years with you. Danke.

And to all of our other players (even you, Pranjic, and yes, I realize I'm really harsh on you and might have called you the spawn of Satan on (more than) one occasion)...thank you for making the game fun. Let's keep this up.

Love,
A typical American who loves her typical Germans.

Luka Robben: Great Mascot or Greatest Mascot?

This is Luka Robben, yes, the actual son of Arjen Robben (not to be confused with his pitch-side progeny from him and the continually missed Mark van Bommel - Holger Bieber Badstuber). He is a cheerful little tulip whose demeanor is only hindered by an oncoming Bernie. We can all pretend that the last time he encountered Bernie ended up with Luka getting ambushed by Mark van Bommel after taking the bait of a seemingly innocuous bathtub full of the Bayern mascot. 

The next match is an away match but we can hope that we'll be seeing more of this right footed toddler before the end of this season!

I trust that the other ladies on this blog can write a more constructive match reaction post, but having just watched the match as a study break and knowing the outcome, well... this is as good as it's gonna get. 

Also please click the links or this post is going nowhere.