"It was April 15th, a terrible day. We had lost the first leg of our Champions League quarter-final against Porto (3-1 away). Afterwards, in front of the entire team in the dressing room, I was blamed for the defeat. They said we had too many injured players and that I was letting players recover for too long. That was completely absurd. I refused to accept that."
"I was outraged by the misjudgment, because top athletes from all over the world come to me because my diagnostics are more precise, the recovery process is often faster than elsewhere, and because my medications have no side effects. However, the recovery wasn't fast enough for Pep Guardiola."
"I always enjoyed the respect and trust of the respective coaches. Dettmar Cramer once described me as 'a stroke of luck for German football.' Udo Lattek often waited until the last minute to announce the lineup and said: 'The doctor has the final say.'"
"Uli Hoeneß, who always stood by me, was in prison at that time. Had he been at the club, the falling out with Guardiola would not have happened, I'm sure of that."
Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt served as Bayern Munich's club physician from the early 1990s until 2015. He resigned after a dispute with coach Pep Guardiola, who blamed him for player injuries following a Champions League loss. Müller-Wohlfahrt emphasized his precise diagnostics and effective recovery methods, which he felt were unjustly criticized. He noted that he had previously enjoyed respect from coaches and believed that had Uli Hoeneß been present, the conflict with Guardiola would not have occurred. Müller-Wohlfahrt returned to Bayern in 2017 and left again in 2020.
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