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Bayern Munich's players and coaching staff hailed the achievement of the club in being crowned Bundesliga champions for a third consecutive season. Following Bastian Schweinsteiger's late goal which saw Bayern seal a 1-0 victory over Hertha Berlin on Saturday, Borussia Monchengladbach beat Wolfsburg on Sunday to make the gap at the top insurmountable. Bayern have now won a total of 25 German championships -- 24 since the inception of the Bundesliga in 1963. "Retaining the title is a magnificent achievement. All credit to the coach and the team," Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said on the club's official website. "They've been fantastic throughout, in a season following a World Cup where we had a host of players in action." His words were echoed by sporting executive Matthias Sammer, who said that "winning a championship is never normal" and added: "It's a big title, the most important and the most honest." Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm was equally delighted, and promised the Bayern fans a party at the end of the season. "We'll be on the city hall balcony at one point, and go for it with our supporters," he said. National team coach Joachim Low was one of many to wish Bayern congratulations and called the title win "well deserved," adding that he was "especially delighted for Pep Guardiola and our national team players, who have shown they remain hungry despite winning the World Cup." The 25th German championship for Bayern also turned Nationalmannschaft captain Schweinsteiger into the most successful player in Munich's history. The 30-year-old has now won eight Bundesliga titles, seven German cups, and one Champions League, European Super Cup and Club World Cup trophy each. The German media also duly noted Bayern's third consecutive league title. "It was never in question," Sportschau.de commented, while adding that the title race had been "as boring as the weather forecast in a repeat of the TV news from 20 years ago." Die Zeit also highlighted that Bayern had no contender for the Bundesliga title, but singled out that knowledge is as important as money. "A smart coach and enthusiastic players are responsible for the success," they said. News outlet Der Spiegel hoped that "maybe already in the upcoming season" the Bayern dominance will come to an end, especially given the fact that clubs like Leverkusen and Wolfsburg can now bank on pillars such as "tactics, personnel and economics," which had not been the case in previous years. Local Munich tabloid Abendzeitung said that Bayern collected their 25th title "in passing" and pointed towards their real goal: Winning the Treble.
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