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Bayern add retired goalkeeper Starke to squad

By AFP
September 26, 2017

BERLIN: Bayern Munich have reacted to the long-term injury of Manuel Neuer by naming retired goalkeeper Tom Starke, now a coach in their academy, amongst their goalkeepers for their Champions League games.Bayern face Paris Saint-Germain away on Wednesday in a key match in a Group B which also contains Celtic and Anderlecht.Starke, 36, has been Bayern’s goalkeeping co-ordinator in their academy since the start of the season having retired in May. Neuer is out until January after fracturing his foot, so Sven Ulreich is now Bayern’s first-choice goalkeeper with academy product Christian Fruechtl, 17, acting as his back up.