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Moments 1 May 1979

The Desk, the Phone, Twelve Million

A desk, a sideboard, a telephone. Lavish it was not.

Arriving on the first floor, the two buddies stopped in front of the door. We need to change the nameplate, Breitner observed. After you, please!

It's yours, after all.

Hoeneß opened the door to his new office for the first time and sat behind the desk. A press photographer was a must — PR professional Hoeneß knew that. On the desk still lay documents from his predecessor.

Financial plans and balance sheets.

Twelve million marks in revenue? Not exactly a lot, he muttered and picked up the phone. After just two hours, he left.

There wasn't much he could accomplish on a public holiday. But other days would come. Many days that would offer the chance to make history.

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