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Qatar Tribune
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Qatar Tribune
Flying Bayern start Club World Cup with 10-0 romp over Auckland City
dpa Cincinnati, Ohio Jamal Musiala scored a hat-trick to help Bayern Munich charge to a 10-0 thumping of hapless Auckland City in their Club World Cup Group C opener on Sunday. It is a record international success for the Bundesliga champions. The revamped tournament began on Saturday with a 0-0 draw between Egypt's Al Ahly and Inter Miami, but Bayern made sure the goals flowed in the second match of the controversial event. 'We don't need praise, it is job done, we played very earnestly. Maybe goal difference will be important for this group phase,' Bayern coach Vincent Kompany told DAZN. 'When a team stays back and defends, it is not easy to score 10.' France winger Kingsley Coman went close with a header and from the resultant corner, he nodded in on six minutes after debutant Jonathan Tah had headed the ball back. Tah was signed on an effective free transfer from Bayer Leverkusen but with his Leverkusen deal not up until June 30, Bayern had to pay their rivals a modest sum to free him up earlier. The vagaries of club contracts and a first Club World Cup with 32 teams held in June and July means Thomas Müller had to receive a mini contract extension - given his Bayern deal was otherwise due to expire on June 30. The veteran, set to join a US club in late July, started in Cincinnati but Leroy Sané was left on the bench ahead of his July 1 move to Galatasaray - even if Bayern are still in the competition. Müller, Olise and Coman also star Coman's clever knock down allowed Sacha Boey to rifle in his first Bayern goal on 18 minutes. It was soon 3-0 as the gulf in class between the sides was exposed as Michael Olise netted at the far post following Müller's cross. Coman fired in his second soon after and Müller flicked in before Olise netted the goal of the game on the stroke of half-time. Coman and Olise were both rested in the second half but there was still no appearance for Sané, with Musiala coming on to replace a goalless Harry Kane and show his return to fitness after injury. Musiala netted his three in the second half, including a penalty he earned, before crowd favourite Müller scored the 10th. 'It's good that we started like this. It's what we planned,' Tah said. 'It was a lot of fun for me, especially the way we played.' The heavy defeat was tough on Auckland goalkeeper Conor Tracey, who made several good saves amid the waves of Bayern attacks. However, he gave the ball straight to Musiala for the ninth goal. The Bundesliga champions, who last won Europe's Champions League in 2020, showed they are very much up for the competition despite it taking place during the usual holiday period for European sides. The New Zealanders won the Oceania Champions League the last four seasons but were blown away and next face Benfica on Friday hoping to keep the score down to single digits. 'We always knew it was going to be challenging,' Auckland's Ryan De Vries said. 'They are (German) champions for a reason. We should be happy with ourselves.' The Bavarians, who as a club support the expanded tournament due to its financial benefits, have a tougher game against Boca Juniors in Miami in their second Group C clash the same day. Bayern fans have criticized the Club World Cup but ultras still made the trip to Ohio, even if the atmosphere against the part-timers was subdued at times. Bayern fans also revealed a banner slamming FIFA's leadership. 'It's good that we started like this. it is what we planned,' Tah said. 'It was a lot of fun for me, especially the way we played.'
Irish Examiner
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Auf wiedersehen, Thomas Müller, Germany's dream maker who found goals in space
It's 17 years since Thomas Müller made his debut for Bayern. Since then he has played 751 games for the club, scoring 248 goals, while also scoring 45 goals in 131 games for Germany. He has won 13 Bundesliga titles, two Champions Leagues and a World Cup. He will retire at the end of the Club World Cup after a career played entirely at the highest level and yet still nobody has been able to quite work out what he is. Is he a centre-forward? Is he a false 9? Is he a wide forward, a second striker, an attacking midfielder? Is he all of those things, none of those things or some of those things some of the time? Louis van Gaal loved him; Pep Guardiola never seemed quite so sure. Müller is not especially quick, not especially dominant in the air and does not beat players with close technical skill, but he is obviously a player of the highest level. Then there's his puzzling goals record: how did a player who averaged roughly a goal every three games managed not only to win the Golden Boot at the 2010 World Cup but also the Silver Boot at the following tournament? (Even odder is that the five goals he scored in South Africa were his only international goals that year.) The best explanation of Müller perhaps came from his own mouth. 'I am a Raumdeuter,' he said in 2011 – an interpreter of space. He has that capacity a great goalscorer, a Gerd Müller or a Gary Lineker, has to anticipate where the ball will drop, but he is not a poacher. He has the ability of a Luka Modric or a Xavi to find space in a hectic midfield, but he is not a playmaker. Raumdeuter has become such an accepted phrase that it is a role that can be assigned to forwards on the video game Football Manager. It is not entirely clear whether Müller was making a joke when he said it. Müller's football may be hard to identify, but it is nothing to his sense of humour. When he claimed that Robert Lewandowski's nickname was 'Robert Lewangoalski', before pausing, nodding and opening his eyes wider as though imploring people to laugh, it initially seemed he was making an inexplicably bad joke. Then the thought occurred that he perhaps knew that and the joke was actually how inane is a lot of football's banter culture. Thomas Muller (C) of the FC Bayern celebrates with teammates during the official championships celebration. Pic:At that moment, the entire notion of the press conference seemed in danger of imploding under the weight of its own futility. This was Eric Morecambe, it was Larry David, it was Stewart Lee, a ludic recklessness with form that not only managed to be funny by not being funny, but interrogated the entire notion of funny. It is the same with his coinage of Raumdeuter, which is itself a pun, albeit a rather better one that Goalandowski. Traumdeuter is German for an interpreter of dreams, a term popularised by Sigmund Freud. Traum is derived from the Old Icelandic draumr via the Middle High German troum and initially meant phantom or illusion. The English 'dream', which emerged in the 12th century, shares the same root. Deuter comes originally from proto-Indo-European tē̌u-, which meant something like 'swell'; it's also the root of words such as thumb, thigh and thousand. More appositely, it is the origin of þeuðō, an early Germanic term meaning a lot of people, that came to be used to mean tribe. A couple of thousand years ago, if you spoke the demotic language as opposed to Latin, you were in effect said to be speaking þiudiskaz – that is, þeuðō-ish – which over time evolved to become Deutsch. Deuten became a verb meaning to make clear for the mass of the people. That sense remains in deutlich – clearly, significantly – or eindeutig – clearly, obviously; and, to a lesser extent in bedeuten – to mean. Deuten itself is slightly more sophisticated than ziegen – to show – but not as scientific as interpretieren or analysieren: to interpret, not in the sense of translating, but of explaining. With that context, Müller's apparently unremarkable statement that he is a Raumdeuter can be seen not only as a description of what he is, but of what he is not. He is not a player who deals in phantoms, illusions and dreams; he is a pragmatist. He sees space – better than almost anybody else of his generation – and through his movement, his assists and his goals he explains it to the mass of the people: those watching it in the stands or on television who do not have his extraordinary grasp of the shape and dynamics of the game. Perhaps there is even a sense in that second syllable that the role of the Raumdeuter is characteristically German, that it stems from the peculiarly German way of seeing the game that meant that between 1970 and 2000, there was an acceptance that football was about the inter-movement of players, unencumbered by the impetus to press that dominated in the rest of northern Europe. It is probably no coincidence that the modern notion of the libero was created by Franz Beckenbauer, whose game, no less than Müller's, relied on the interpretation of space, just at the other end of the field. Müller, in his own way, was just as central to Germany's fourth World Cup success as Beckenbauer was to its second. In those Jogi Löw sides of 2010 and 2014, he was the attacking brain of the side, the player who ensured the counterattacks were devastating. After finding space in a crowd box to head the first goal in the semi-final in 2014, it was Müller, revelling in the chaos of the Brazilian meltdown, who orchestrated the 7-1. Müller retires as the joint-most successful German player in terms of trophies won, although he would edge ahead of Toni Kroos were Bayern to lift the Club World Cup. But more than that, Müller defined not only a position but an entire, and idiosyncratically German, way of thinking about the game. He is the embodiment of the process that brought the World Cup. Guardian
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Austrian ambassador begins diplomatic mission in Ukraine
The new Austrian ambassador to Ukraine, Robert Müller, presented his credentials to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 13 June, marking the official start of his mission. Source: Office of the President of Ukraine, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy received Müller's credentials on Friday. During their meeting, Zelenskyy thanked Austria for its humanitarian and financial assistance since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as well as for providing medical treatment and holidays for Ukrainian children. Zelenskyy and Müller also discussed the potential involvement of Austrian businesses in Ukraine's post-war recovery and the development of bilateral cooperation. Background: Müller arrived in Ukraine on 2 May. He succeeded Arad Benkö, who had headed Austria's diplomatic mission in Kyiv since January 2023. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Business Insider
12-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Warburg Research Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Fabasoft AG (FBSFF)
In a report released yesterday, Hannes Müller from Warburg Research maintained a Buy rating on Fabasoft AG (FBSFF – Research Report), with a price target of €31.00. The company's shares closed last Wednesday at $18.00. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Müller is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 5.3% and a 45.16% success rate. Müller covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as ATOSS Software, Secunet Security Networks, and cyan AG. Fabasoft AG has an analyst consensus of Hold.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Solar Orbiter Captures the First-Ever Images of the Sun's South Pole
We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have photographed one of the sun's elusive poles. The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring our home star since November 2021. But the mission is only now beginning its most intriguing work: studying the poles of the sun. From Earth and spacecraft alike, our view of the sun has been biased. 'We've had a good view of centermost part of the sun's disk,' says Daniel Müller, a heliophysicist and project scientist for the mission. 'But the poles are effectively not visible because we always see them almost exactly edge-on.' [Sign up for Today in Science, a free daily newsletter] We began getting a better perspective earlier this year, when Solar Orbiter zipped past Venus in a carefully choreographed move that pulled the probe out of the solar system's ecliptic, the plane that broadly passes through the planets' orbits and the sun's equator. (The new views show the sun's south pole and were captured in March. The spacecraft flew over the north pole in late April, Müller says, but Solar Orbiter is still in the process of beaming that data back to Earth.) Leaving the ecliptic is a costly, fuel-expensive maneuver for spacecraft, but it's where Solar Orbiter excels: By the end of the mission, the spacecraft's orbit will be tilted 33 degrees with respect to the ecliptic. That tilted orbit is what allows Solar Orbiter to garner unprecedented views of the sun's poles. For scientists, the new view is priceless because these poles aren't just geographic poles; they're also magnetic poles—of sorts. The sun is a massive swirl of plasma that produces then erases a magnetic field. This is what drives the 11-year solar activity cycle. At solar minimum, the lowest-activity part of the cycle, the sun's magnetic field is what scientists call a dipole: it looks like a giant bar magnet, with a strong pole at each end. But as the sun spins, the roiling plasma generates sunspots, dark, relatively cool patches on the sun's surface that are looping tangles of magnetic field lines. As sunspots arise and pass away, these tangles unfurl, and some of the leftover magnetic charge migrates to the nearest pole, where it offsets the polarity of the existing magnetic field. The result is a bizarre transitional state, with the sun's poles covered in a patchwork of localized 'north' and 'south' magnetic polarities. In the solar maximum phase (which the sun is presently in), the magnetic field at each pole effectively disappears. (It can be a bumpy process—sometimes one pole loses its charge before the other, for example.) Then, as years pass and solar activity gradually declines, the continuing process of sunspots developing and dissipating creates a new magnetic field of the opposite charge at each pole until, eventually, the sun reaches its calm dipole state again. These aren't matters of academic curiosity; the sun's activity affects our daily lives. Solar outbursts such as radiation flares and coronal mass ejections of charged plasma can travel across the inner solar system to reach our neighborhood, and they're channeled out of the sun by our star's ever changing magnetic fields. On Earth these outbursts can disrupt power grids and radio systems; in orbit they can interfere with communications and navigations satellites and potentially harm astronauts. So scientists want to be able to predict this so-called space weather, just as they do terrestrial weather. But to do that, they need to better understand how the sun works—which is difficult to do with hardly a glimpse of the magnetic activity at and around our star's poles. That's where Solar Orbiter comes in. Most of the spacecraft's observations won't reach Earth until this autumn. But ESA has released initial looks from three different instruments onboard Solar Orbiter, each of which lets scientists glimpse different phenomena. For example, the image above maps the magnetic field at the sun's surface. And from this view, Müller says, it's clear that the sun is at the maximum period of its activity cycle. Heliophysical models predict 'a tangled mess of all these different patches of north and south polarity all over the place,' he says. 'And that's exactly what we see.' As their accordance with theoretical models suggests, the solar poles aren't entirely mysterious realms. That's in part because while Solar Orbiter is the first to beam back polar images, it isn't the first spacecraft to fly over these regions. That title belongs to Ulysses, a joint NASA-ESA mission that launched in 1990 and operated until 2009. Ulysses carried a host of instruments designed to study radiation particles, magnetic fields, and more. And it used them to make many intriguing discoveries about our star and its curious poles. But it carried no cameras, so despite all its insights, Ulysses left those regions as sights unseen. Fortunately, heliophysics has grown a lot since those days—and space agencies have learned that, in the public eye, a picture can be worth much more than 1,000 words. The result: Solar Orbiter can finally put the spotlight on the sun's poles.
